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Cargotec is supplying MacGregor access equipment for two cruise ships for MEYER WERFT, scheduled for delivery in 2013 and 2014. The contract includes passenger doors, tender platforms, shell doors and platforms for loading stores, bunkers and luggage, and for mooring operations, and the weight of the MacGregor equipment totals around 230 tonnes per shipse...
JAMAICAN Transport Minister Lester 'Mike' Henry says the bomb threat that led to the 72-hour ban on air cargo from Jamaica to the US, the Bahamas and Canada may have been a malicious hoax, reports the Jamaica Observer. After the consultations with investigators, the air cargo ban was lifted for Canada and the Bahamas and shortly after, for US as well, h...
LAST year, south eastern China's Fujian province recorded 8.2 million tonnes of transshipments from the bordering province of Jiangxi, up 272 per cent from 2.18 million tonnes in 2007, representing a rate of increase of 55 per cent a year, Xinhua reports. As of 2010, Fujian has had 439 seaport berths in operation, 122 are over 10,000 tonnes, generating ...
EXPEDITORS International of Washington has posted 46 per cent increase in operating profit to $547 million in 2010, drawn on revenues US$5.9 billion, up 42 per cent year on year. "This wasn't our first recession, it was merely our worst. We learned from experience that a recession is the least costly time to make investments," said CEO Peter Rose. We h...
THE government of Costa Rica has awarded APM Terminals, a member of the AP Moller-Maersk group, a 33-year concession to design, finance, build and operate the new Moin Container Terminal (TCM). "APM Terminals has the expertise in the management of terminals around the world with the financial strength to make the investment required for this work estimate...
HONG KONG's OOCL has announced that it will no longer provide chassis for truckers in Denver, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Mobile, New Orleans, Oakland, Salt Lake City and Wilmington, North Carolina. OOCL said truckers must provide chassis themselves and bill their customers. This is the third stage of weaning American truckers from the provision of...
MCC TRANSPORT, Maersk's intra-Asian unit, has announced it will levy an emergency bunker surcharge on all cargo out of mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau because of soaring oil prices. The new surcharges will be US$38 per TEU and $76 per FEU from Hong Kong and Macau to southeast Asia from March 7; from south China to southeast Asia, the charge will be ...
THE Canada Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement has said it will increase from 20-30 per cent the bunker adjustment factor (BAF) surcharge member lines levy on shipments from Asia to Canada from April. Having increased the surcharge on January 1, CTSA carriers (APL, Cosco, Evergreen, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai, "K" Line, NYK, OOCL, Yang Ming and Zim) now say bu...
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
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