FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled two million TEU in January, an increase of 5.7 per cent over the 1.6 million TEU in January of last year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported a 3.6 per cent increase in container movement in January, having handled 2.4 million TEU compared to 2.3 million TEU in January last ...
DP World's new Vallarpadam International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT) is now officially open - the first-ever dedicated transhipment and gateway hub in India, eyefortransport reports. The new terminal is a public-private partnership between DP World and the government of India, along with strategic partners Container Corporation of India (Conc...
Following 10 years with the Rickmers Group and after the successful conclusion of financing agreements for the Rickmers Group’s newbuilding programme consisting of container and multi-purpose vessels, Dr Moritz Mittelbach has stepped down as CFO and Managing Director of Rickmers Holding GmbH & Cie KG and Pacific Holdings International GmbH & C...
Mercator Lines Limited, India’s 2nd largest private sector shipping company (in terms of tonnage), announced its results for the period ended 31st December 2010. The total consolidated income for the nine months ended 31st December 2010 was Rs. 2047 Cr. against Rs. 1327 Cr. in corresponding period of previous year thus recording an increase of 54% on ...
Container connectivity between Visakhapatnam and Colombo will get a boost with the launching of a cargo ship service from Visakha Container Terminal Private Ltd (VCTPL) on Monday, reported The Hindu. The ship, the first to be named after Visakhapatnam, as Far Vizag, anchored at VCTPL on Sunday evening and left for Colombo on Monday. Far Shipping Company, ...
Mexican port authority API Lazaro Cardenas has launched a tender to build and operate a second container terminal at Lazaro Cardenas port on the Pacific coast, according to Business News America. Interested firms have until March 14 to purchase tender documents and a site visit is scheduled for March 28-31, according to a tender notice published in the of...
THE D'ARTAGNAN, the world's most powerful self-propelled, heavy duty, cutter suction dredger, has arrived at the Panama Canal to join the expansion of the waterway linking the Pacific with the Atlantic. The D'Artagnan, able to dredge hard rock locations that previously required drilling and blasting, will complete the dredging of the waterway's Pacifi...
THE NYK Group has completed a two-month winter safety campaign, entitled "Sail on Safety," that it runs every year as part of measures to prevent accidents that are more likely to occur during the winter months when the seas are turbulent, and to warn relevant parties of the associated risks. A company statement said: "The NYK Group has continued to focu...
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