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UASC Wins Seatrade Award

Oct 21, 2015

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC)  has received the ‘Environmental Responsibility’ award and ‘The Shipping Company of the Year’ award at this year’s Seatrade Maritime Awards for Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and Africa.  UASC’s Chairman H…

China Gets Port of Darwin

Oct 21, 2015

The Northern Territory (NT) Government in Australia announced the successful bidder for the Port of Darwin – Landbridge Group, based in the People’s Republic of China.  Chinese privately owned energy and infrastructure conglomerate Landbridge…

EMC Enhances Leadership Team

Oct 20, 2015

EMC  has appointed several established executives to its global leadership team to further enhance its delivery of mission-critical communications and content to top organizations around the world.EMC has appointed Tom Severson as chief financial officer (CFO)…

New Business Development Manager for GAC O&G

Oct 20, 2015

GAC is strengthening its strategic focus on the Asian Pacific energy sector with the appointment of Lailah Soon as Regional Business Development Manager, Oil & Gas.Soon has more than a decade of experience in the oil & gas logistics sector in Singapore…

APM Terminals Moin Bullish on Reefers

Oct 20, 2015

APM Terminals is preparing an expansion of the Moin Terminal in Costa Rica's cooling export facilities.  Six new STS cranes and 29 RTG cranes to operate the deep water port of Moin Container Terminal, which opens in 2018.  The Port of Moin is 18 meters deep docks…

Port Construction: Tanzania Kicks Off $11B Project

Oct 20, 2015

Work started last week on an $11bn megaport in Tanzania, funded by China and Oman, which the country’s president said would spark an “industrial revolution” in the east African nation. The new port at Bagamoyo will dwarf the country’s current main port at Dar es Salaam…

Lakes Limestone Trade Skips a Beat in September

Oct 19, 2015

Press release - Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 3.3 million tons in September, a decrease of 8 percent compared to a year ago.  The decrease came almost entirely at Canadian quarries.  Shipments from the three quarries fell 257…

Meiji Shipping Expands with Four New Tankers

Oct 19, 2015

Mumbai-based ship management company MMS Maritime India has announced  it is to begin a major recruitment drive for Indian seafarers, after its parent company, the Japanese ship owner Meiji Shipping Group unveiled an expansion of its tanker fleet…

ASRY Active in Bahrain Coast Guard Newbuilds

Oct 19, 2015

ASRY holds keel-laying ceremony as it starts landing craft construction. ASRY marked the commencement of erection of a new Landing Craft being constructed for the Bahrain Coast Guard (BCG) with a keel-laying ceremony. The event was attended…

Hong Kong Terminals Mark 200 Million TEU

Oct 19, 2015

Hutchison Port Holdings' (HPH) Hong Kong assets marked a significant milestone with cumulative throughput of 200 million teu. Congratulating HPH Trust on this important chapter in the history of Hong Kong’s container port industry, Secretary…

A Tanker Statistic You May Not Know?

Oct 19, 2015

‘VWGate’ has raised a flag for managers and technicians in the transport business. ‘Efficiency’ used to be left to the market, but the intrepid twins, consumer health and climate change, have changed all that, says a report from Clarkson Research Services…

Bibby Adds New Deputy MD in India

Oct 16, 2015

Bibby Ship Management has welcomed Sanjiv Wagh as Deputy Managing Director of its India offices. With more than 30 years of industry experience, Wagh joins Bibby Ship Management from Kongsberg where he was General Sales Manager for Kongsberg Maritime India…

Ruscon Sees Cargo Boost Despite Russian Downturn

Oct 16, 2015

Though Russian ports have seen a general decline in the number of containers handled, multimodal operator Ruscon reports it has seen its own numbers rise.Ruscon, a subsidiary of Russian container transport company Global Container Service (GCS)…

Ruscon is Russia's Top MTO

Oct 16, 2015

Despite a significant general decline in the number of containers handled in Russian ports, multimodal operator Ruscon has seen its own numbers rise. Ruscon, a subsidiary of leading Russian container transport company GCS, handled 65…

China Port Opens New Mediterranean Route

Oct 16, 2015

China's Tianjin Port has opened a new regular shipping route to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, reports Xinhua. The route, run by nine container ships, will call at countries including Malaysia, India, Israel, Egypt and Turkey…

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