JAPAN's NYK Line will provide donations and free ocean transport for relief supplies in response to the typhoon that hit the Philippines September 26, and the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the Samoas September 29, and for the earthquake and tsunami in Sumatra of September 30. Aid shipments will be coordinated with Japan Platform (JPF), an...
In a major thrust to expand capacity at important ports in India, the Ministry of Shipping has awarded seven projects worth over US$386.4 million, to be developed through the public-private partnership (PPP) route, the Business Standard reported. Another 19 projects, estimated to cost around are expected to be awarded on similar PPP basis by early 2010. ...
Shipbuilding Company Almaz OJSC (Saint-Petersburg) will flout out an ice-class towing boat Nevskaya Zastava of 2805 design. As PortNews IAA learnt from the company, the ceremony is preliminary planned for October13, 2009, 3 p.m. The boat has the following characteristics: overall length – 41 m, breadth molded – 11.6 m, hull height – 5.2 ...
Cargo turnover of Murmansk Commercial Seaport stevedoring company (MCS) increased by 11.5% (up to 11 million 524.9 thousand tons) in January-September, 2009 as compared to the corresponding period figures of the previous year, as indicated in the statistics information of MCS OJSC. Within the period of 9 months, 2009, the port operated 384 vessels 168 of wh...
A detailed working design and state expertise passing of a new shipyard construction in Primorsk (Leningrad region) is planned to be completed in August, 2010. Working documentation preparation will be carried out simultaneously, Georgii Poryadin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vyborg Shipyard OJSC (that is a project investor), informed journalists. ...
Vyborg Shipyard OJSC predicts its 2.46-time revenue increase (up to RUR 32 billion) as of 2009 results, Valerii Levchenko, General Director of the shipyard informed journalists on the matter. As per Levchenko, incomings on Gasprom’s orders made the main part of the revenue current year. Vyborg Shipyard OJSC is specialized in building of drilling pla...
US west coast ports, chiefly Los Angeles-Long Beach, are being urged to improve productivity or risk losing further market share to ports in Canada and the US east coast, a Cargo Business News conference was told. Bill Payne, executive vice president and chief operating officer at NYK Line North America, said 10 years ago container moves per hour on NYK v...
ALL-IN freight rates on east west trade will rise 18 per cent next year while trade volumes will increase 2.3 per cent according to the annual container market review and forecast by London's Drewry Shipping Consultants. "The container market has bottomed out and we expect global traffic to recover a little in the second half of 2009. We should see some ...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi