Chairman of APM Terminal, Chief Ernest Shonekan has said that the company has spent about N28 billion on civil works, equipment and upgrade of terminal since it took over the facility in 2006. Shonekan made this disclosure in Lagos last week at a ceremony to mark APM Terminals’ five years of operations at the Apapa Container Terminal, Lagos. The f...
Box liner APL will begin radiation scanning of containerised Japanese exports delivered to its marine terminal at Yokohama for transport on its ships. The radiation test is scheduled to start on 6 April and the carrier expects to scan approximately 200 containers daily, APL announced Friday. “We are taking this step to protect our people and to do wha...
SOUTHEAST China's Xiamen port will accelerate the relocation and reconstruction of the port area to increase throughput to 200 million tonnes by 2015 according to the next National 12th Five-Year Plan, reports Xinhua. The port will place emphasis on the construction of the two major deep-water port areas at Xiang'an in the north and Gulei in the south....
SEA ports in southeast China's coastal province Fujian handled a total of 1.3 million TEU of containers during January and February, marking a year-on-year increase of 7.8 per cent. In the same period, the port's cargo throughput tonnage amounted to 51.8 million tonnes, up 21.1 per cent, said Xinhua's report. (Source:http://www.schednet.com)
A new Sh 500million container terminal has been opened at Portreiz in Mombasa with freight handlers hoping that it will help decongest the Mombasa port, Allafrica reports. The Mombasa Container Terminal (MCT) has a capacity to handle 2,200 twenty foot containers and 650 motor vehicles was opened on Monday by Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka. According to ...
As of 8:00am (MT), April 1st, 93 vessels requested icebreaker assistance in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, the Port Authority of Big Port St. Petersburg said. The St. Petersburg PA reports of total 123 merchant ships currently located in the water area, 24 of them - in motion. Over the past day 13 ships have reached the entrance buoy of St Pe...
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission has approved a five-year Project Labor Agreement (PLA) with the aim of ensuring “safety, quality, and timely construction on the Port of Los Angeles' capital projects that will provide job and apprentice opportunities for local and disadvantaged residents." The PLA will serve as a blanket agreement between the Los...
Four carriers have collaborated to launch a new Central China-Long Beach Express (CLX) service from Fuzhou from early April. COSCON Container Lines, Hanjin Shipping, Pacific International Lines (PIL) and Wan Hai Lines will offer five vessels of between 3,600-3,850 teu for the service. Two vessels will be provided by COSCON and one by each of the three other...
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