This is the first instance of a private container terminal operator seeking to re-negotiate a key term after it was awarded on a pre-agreed method. PSA-SICAL Terminals Ltd, the entity that operates India’s fourth largest container terminal, at the Union government-owned Tuticorin port, will seek gov
Two crews have paddled their way to a world record for crossing the English Channel in a dragon boat. The male Brotherhood crew crossed from Dover to Calais in three hours 30 minutes, smashing the previous record of seven hours 45 minutes.
Robert Ballard said he has discovered a potential bonanza in the Black Sea, thanks in part to a natural phenomenon that has preserved ancient cargo sunken at a global underwater hub. “This is a crossroads of civilization,” Ballard said Friday.
INCREASED imports and exports through Port Elizabeth‘s container terminal have reached record levels, Transnet Port Terminals announced yesterday. The company said the new record of 41 362 containers beat the previous highest figure of 40 530 achieved in one month last year.
A terminal operator at the Port of Los Angeles will lose three customers that move about $40 million in cargo each year when those shipping lines shift their business to the neighboring Port of Long Beach in November, officials said Thursday. The decision represents a loss for TraPac terminal and th
The world is a very different place out beyond the horizon. Even as you read this, there are some 40,000 large cargo ships plying the world’s waterways and oceans, not to mention innumerable smaller merchant craft, all pulling in and out of ports, loading, unloading, changing out crews and cargos, a
Two crews are attempting to break the world record for crossing the English Channel in a dragon boat. The Brotherhood and Sisterhood teams are paddling from Dover to Calais across more than 20 miles of open sea in aid of charity.
Somali pirates released a Danish ship late on Wednesday after a ransom of $1.5m was paid to them, said the head of a maritime organisation on Thursday. The Danica White cargo ship was hijacked on June 04 and its five Danish crew members taken hostage by armed pirates who had plagued Somalia’s anarch
Searchers aboard a boat on the Pacific Ocean have located a submarine believed to be the one that disappeared 65 years ago and claimed the lives of 70 sailors, including one from Asheville.
Cruise tourism took a beating from Hurricane Dean in the form of a potential 16,682 cruise visitors that didn’t make it to our shores, but yesterday three cruise ships were due back in port. Six cruise ships that had been scheduled to call over Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday earlier this week did not
The Salvage operations to refloat the New Flame cargo ship has been suspended today. Government officials today stated, “The salvage operation of the “New Flame” continues to be suspended due to adverse weather conditions. The removal of fuel oil will resume, as soon as the weather improves probably
World Championship victory was finally claimed by world # 1 women’s match racer Claire LEROY (FRA) and there is no surprise that she stays firmly at the top of the rankings. Ian WILLIAMS (GBR) is also holding firm and three more podium positions at ISAF Grade WC regattas sees him extend his lead yet
Stena Line has ordered two new RoPax vessels valued at around SEK 2 billion from Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The vessels will be put into service in 2011 and they are planned to operate the route Rotterdam-Harwich.
Atlas Copco is opening two new customer centers in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina through the acquisition of three construction and mining equipment distributors, to support the fast growth in the region. The opening of the new customer centers will be October 1, 2007.
