Tranzas Company has signed a contract on delivery of radio-navigation and internal communication equipment for a maritime diving ship with Yaroslavski shipbuilding plant. Tranzas shall equip the vessel with all the necessary navigation, communication and satellite equipment under the contract. A fully equipped vessel shall be handed over to the State ...
Cargotec has recently won new orders for MacGregor offshore cranes, demonstrating the buoyancy that still remains in the offshore market. In September Cargotec secured new orders for its MacGregor offshore cranes. The cranes are destined for three vessels being built for US, Russian and Canadian customers. • For the US shipowner, Cargotec will delive...
The Bangladesh government has cancelled the controversial container handling contract at Chittagong Port with Ishaque Brothers, Asia Pulse reported. The order of the Shipping Ministry reached Chittagong Port earlier in the week and the Port authority cancelled the contract, officials said. Shipping Adviser M A Matin is facing criminal charge for awardin...
Cosco Pacific, the world's fifth-largest port operator, predicted container throughput at mainland ports would increase five to 10 percent next year as the stimulus packages introduced by governments across the world continue to shore up the global economy, the South China Morning Post reported. Throughput at overseas terminals would grow at a slower spe...
STX Pan Ocean Co., South Korea's largest bulk-shipping line, said Thursday that it will launch a liquefied natural gas (LNG)-shipping business with a Norwegian shipping company. Along with Hoegh LNG AS, STX Pan Ocean will participate in an LNG transportation project planned by Spanish gas and oil company Repsol YPF. The STX Group has been courting the Sp...
Hapag-Lloyd’s part owner, the German travel group TUI, agreed to provide further financial support to the troubled carrier to help it secure a government lifeline for the shipper, Reuters reported Thursday. On top of the $1.4 billion that Hapag-Lloyd’s owners – TUI and the Albert Ballin investor group – have already agreed to loan ...
Estonia's shipping company Tallink carried 555,512 passengers in September 2009, a drop by 1% from the same month in 2008. The volume of cargo carriage, meanwhile, dropped 15% y/y to 22,622 units, while the carriage of passenger cars was up 21% y/y to 69,545 in September 2009. In September, Tallink carried 259,291 passengers on Tallinn-Helsinki link (+8%);...
Wilhelmsen Ships Service is measuring the success of the sales campaign launched for its Liferaft Exchange Programme one year ago. The company’s Liferaft Exchange Programme has now extended to cover 743 ports in 74 countries worldwide and continues to expand. The concept, which swops service-due liferafts and life-saving appliances for o...
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