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CONTAINER volume through Rotterdam increased 18 per cent to 5.4 million TEU in the first half year while overall cargo throughput rose 14.8 per cent to 213 million tonnes, according Port of Rotterdam Authority statistics. The port authority's said its results for full year 2010 are expected to be 10 per cent higher than they were in 2009. Outgoing ...
TRADE volume through Guangxi's Port of Qinzhou increased 27 per cent year on year to 5.1 million tonnes, while the trade value was up 33.8 per cent year on year to US$900 million in the first half of 2010, reported Xinhua. ASEAN remains the largest trading partner with Qinzhou in the first half. Trade value of ASEAN economies was $320 million, up 17.1 ...
MITSUI OSK LINES LTD (MOL), Nippon Yusen KK (NYK) and Itochu Corporation plan to cooperate with a Vietnamese partner to build and operate a container terminal in northern Vietnam at an estimated cost of JPY30 billion (US$349.29 million). According to the Japanese economic daily, Nikkei, the Japanese trio and the state-run Vietnam National Shipping Lines...
FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 2.1 million TEU in July, an increase of 9.7 per cent over the 1.9 million in July of last year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported a 13.5 per cent increase in container movement in July, having handled 2.5 million TEU compared to 2.2 million TEU in July of last year. (Sou...
Last Saturday's collision between two ships off the Mumbai coast was caused by a communications problem - the pilots of the two vessels involved were operating on different radio frequencies. It was a clear violation of the standard operating procedure prescribed for communication between ships as well as with port traffic controllers. Sources at t...
Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), whose navigational channels had been blocked since Saturday by floating and sunk containers from MSC Chitra, have been partially opened for traffic, with ship convoys escorted by naval helicopters and warships with side-sonar equipment, reported The Times of India. MbPT chaiman Rahul Astha...
Philippines' International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) will spend more than half a billion US dollars in the next two years to expand its ports in Latin America, according to the Philippines News Agency. Enrique Razon, ICTSI chairman and president told reporters that the port operator would spend roughly close to $600 million over the next ...
Port companies from China and Southeast Asian countries inked agreements to strengthen cooperation at the fifth Pan-Beibu Gulf (PBG) Economic Cooperation Forum in Nanning, reported Xinhua. The agreements, signed by Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group with Haikou Port, Guangzhou Port Group, China Shipping Container Lines, Singapore's IMC Shippin...
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.
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