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Ports Group Encouraged By U.S. House Transportation Bill

Oct 22, 2015

Press release - Like many other goods-movement interests, America’s seaports are pleased to see new freight provisions contained in the Surface Transportation Reauthorization & Reform Act of 2015 (STRR; H.R. 3763), which House Transportation…

Port of Kiel: Cruise Shipping Sets Passenger Record

Oct 22, 2015

Press release- This year’s cruise shipping season in Kiel was ending on Tuesday October 20th with a visit by the “AIDAcara”. Overall the port registered 133 calls this year by 25 different ships with a total tonnage of more than 8.6 million GT (an increase of 19…

Bahrain Set to Award $400mln Floating LNG Contract

Oct 22, 2015

The Bahrain National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA) will award a $400 million Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal contract next month, Energy Minister Abdulhussain Mirza told local media this week. The LNG terminal will be constructed near Khalifa Bin Salman Port…

Greek-US Plan for an LNG Terminal

Oct 22, 2015

Greece and the US are likely to reveal a joint venture to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal when US Secretary of State John Kerry makes an official visit to Athens in November. According to a local news report in eKathimerini…

South Port says Shipping Rates 'Unsustainably Low'

Oct 22, 2015

Shipping rates in New Zealand waters have become 'unsustainably low' in the wake of supply chain agreements such as between Kotahi and Port of Tauranga,  NBR reports as South Port New Zealand chairman Rex Chapman saying.  The company's…

Brian Armour Joins Braemar

Oct 21, 2015

Braemar (incorporating The Salvage Association) has appointed Brian Armour as Senior Maritime Civil Engineer within its Ports & Harbours division.Brian will be based in the Singapore office and has many years’ experience in the design, analysis…

Iran in Major Fleet Expansion Plan

Oct 21, 2015

In a bid to prepare for the lift of economic sanctions placed on the country, Iran has unveiled a $120 billion fleet expansion campaign. Mohammad Saeidi, Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), said that the company seeks to purchase 579…

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…

Italy's LSCT Executives Tour Asian Logistics Hubs

Oct 20, 2015

In Singapore, senior executives from Italy's La Spezia Container Terminal - Contship Italia Group will kick off a tour of key cargo hubs across south east and east Asia today to raise awareness and promote the benefits of La Spezia Homeport…

WTO Receives 50th Ratification of TFA

Oct 20, 2015

The WTO received the 50th ratification of the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) after the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia deposited its instrument of acceptance on 19 October.Concluded at the WTO’s 2013 Bali Ministerial Conference…

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…

Port Community System Unveiled at Dubai Seminar

Oct 19, 2015

An electronic port community system to make all trading transactions paperless in Algerian ports based on the Dubai Trade portal has been unveiled at a major seminar in Dubai on investment opportunities in the country. The new system…

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…

Maritime Labor Alliance Holds Leadership Summit

Oct 16, 2015

The presidents and other elected officials of the constituent unions comprising the Maritime Labor Alliance (MLA) met Wednesday for their semiannual meeting in Washington D.C. to review the state of maritime labor in the U.S. and to establish priorities for the upcoming year…

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