Freight volume handled at the combined port of HaminaKotka for 5 recent months of this year reached 6,45 million tons, up 7.8% over the total freight turnover of the ports of Hamina and Kotka in January-May of 2010, the Port Authority said. In the reporting period exports flow grew by 2.9%, imports – by 17.8%. The Port Authority said there was a dec...
Four ports in east China's Shandong Province signed a strategic alliance with the largest port of the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Wednesday in Qingdao, Qingdao Port of Shandong announced in a press release. Aiming to build a shipping and logistics center in northeast Asia, the alliance is jointly formed by Shandong's Qingdao Port, Yantai Port, Rizhao Por...
SINGAPORE has been celebrating the opening of Singapore Oxygen Air Liquide (SOXAL) that has invested S$500 million (US$406.31 million) in an air separation unit, hydrogen plant, gas pipeline network on Jurong Island, home to the Lion City's energy and chemicals industry with its petrochemical complex. According to Trade, Industry and Manpower Minister Le...
The Port of Oakland secured US$18 million in federal funding to dredge its navigation channel and maintain it to 50 feet (15.4 metres), the US. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed. Oakland in 2009 completed a 10-year project to dredge 50 feet from 42 feet needed to accommodate 8,000-TEU ships, now common at California ports, reported Newark's Journal of Co...
Gävle Stevedoring Company (GSSC) in Sweden’s Port of Gävle expects to get more business and develop into an efficient logistics hub for the region by investing in an IT solution from Hogia Terminal Systems. As a result, Hogia has upgraded its Hogia Terminal Cargo system to the latest Microsoft technology (.Net). This has enabled Hogia to ...
Malta Freeport has announced that Maersk Line will relocate its central Mediterranean hub to Malta from Gioia Tauro in southern Italy and operate regular and scheduled services to its Port in early July 2011. Malta Freeport, operated by CMA CGM, will tranship containers from Maersk Line’s Asia-Europe services onto feeder vessels serving Mediterrane...
At CMP’s Annual General Meeting on 31 May the Board of Directors approved a dividend payment of SEK 60 million. It was also decided that the holding company, Malmö Hamn AB, will be wound down. Its Swedish shareholders will thereby become direct owners of CMP. The adopted dividend payment of SEK 60 million is equivalent to SEK 16.66 per share. ...
Ships, and the ports at which they call, together provide the world’s ‘greenest’ option for transporting freight. But the entire maritime industry is under the spotlight in terms of environmental performance – because, clearly, there are still ways to reduce environmental impact. The challenges will be considered at a special Port ...
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