- With a further order from Lebanon and a follow-up order from Qatar, Gottwald Port Technology GmbH (Gottwald) is strengthening its position in the Middle East. Beirut Container Terminal Consortium (BCTC), Lebanon, has ordered a G HMK 4406 model 4 mobile harbour crane and Qatar Petroleum, Qatar, has opted for another G HMK 6407 model 6 unit. The G HMK 440...
- Following the recent earthquake, Hamburg Süd has provided an update on the Chilean ports it serves. In the north of Chile, the ports of Iquique, Antofagasta and Port Angamos are fully operational. In Valparaiso the TPSV container terminal used by Hamburg Süd, has announced that it is 90% operational with respect to dry and reefer cargoes. Co...
Tuapse Commercial Sea Port OJSC running its environmental program spent 58 million rubles last year, 26% more than it did in 2008, the press service of the stevedoring company said. Of the overall sum the TCSP directed 35.6 million rubles to maintain its ecological fleet fighting emergency oil spills, liquidating pollution aftereffects. ...
Specialized oil seaport Kozmino of Primorsky Territory expects it will have this March an increase in the volume of oil shipments through the terminal, at least 245.000 tons more than it handled in February, 2010, the company press service said. In February this year, Kozmino exported 1 million tons of crude oil. In two recent months the Port of Koz...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree on 27 February 2010 N236-p on the delimitation of the sea port Olya (Astrakhan region). According to the decree, published in the regulatory framework documents, the territory of the port is limited to 14 sites, water area of 2 sites. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree on February 27, 2010 (N236-p) ...
In the first two months of this year the throughput of the First Container Terminal (FCT, St. Petersburg) amounted to 156.196 TEUs, 25.4% up from the same period a year earlier. Container turnover this February reached 79.793 TEUs, a 30.2 percent rise over the last year’s two months, the National Container Company reported (NCC, manages FCT). In Feb...
THE PORT of Antwerp in Belgium has announced that work to deepen the navigation channel in the Western Scheldt has officially begun in a bid to offer greater port accessibility to larger containerships requiring 15 metres draught. The current round of deepening is a continuation of the work on the Flemish side in 2007. "Apart from permitting wider tide wi...
Tianjin Port Group, the largest port operator in North China, is expected to handle 400 million tonnes of cargo this year, chairman Yu Rumin told China Knowledge Press. The company's cargo throughput was 380 million tonnes in 2009, up 6.7 percent year-on-year. Yu added that the group aims to handle 10 million TEUs in 2010. The group will invest IS$1....
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