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The Long Beach Board Port Authority announced top ocean carriers in compliance with its voluntary ship speed reduction program in designated offshore waters for the purpose of reducing exhaust gas from their vessels as “Green Flag” commendation ocean carriers in 2010. On 7 Apr 2011, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) received the prestig...
SINGAPORE's Maritime Port Authority (MPA) and its global port operator PSA International have signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct research and development to test new container terminals technology. Development of automated guided vehicles for future container terminals to reduce manpower and improve port productivity will be one focus of t...
HONG KONG's Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has terminated talks to lease the entire Gulf Coast Port of Galveston, Texas, for 75 years. The news came when port director Steve Cernak told Galveston City Council's regular meeting: "Hutchison Port Holdings is out." Earlier this year the port announced that Hutchison and the Carlyle Group were looking t...
FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled two million TEU in March, an increase of 3.1 per cent against the 1.9 million TEU handled in March of last year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported a 3.9 per cent increase in container movement in March, having handled 2.5 million TEU compared to 2.4 million TEU in March of...
Nearly two years after a groundbreaking, construction of Van Phong international transhipment port in the central province of Khanh Hoa has stalled due to slow construction progress, reported Vietnam News Brief Service. Vietnam’s first international transhipment port project with four stages of construction was mainly financed by Vietnam National Sh...
The first container vessel that sailed from Japan to the Netherlands after the nuclear accident in Fukushima called at the port of Rotterdam yesterday morning. The vessel, the Carsten Maersk, was already checked in Felixstowe by British and Dutch authorities. The radiation level was normal, a Rotterdam port spokesman said. The cargo is checked from th...
Westports in Malaysia has experienced a 20% surge in container volumes in the first quarter of this year, with a container throughput of 1.5m teu, the highest ever quarterly achievement to date. This compared to 1.2m teu for the same period last year. Local volumes increased by 13%, while transhipment was up by 30% giving Westports an overall market shar...
Freight forwarders have raised concerns about the ability of some ports to handle larger vessels deployed on intra-Asia routes as capacity grows to up to 4,000-TEU from a maximum of 1,000-2,000 TEU a few years ago. The deployment of medium-sized ships on the transpacific will increase the need for investment to boost post capacity in Asia, according to P...
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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