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  • Russia: Vladivostok Port Development to Involve Dredging

    22 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Under the instruction of Rosmorrechflot on April 18, 2014, in Vladivostok, the agreement was signed between Vladivostok Administration, FSUE “Rosmorport” and LLC “Inflot Worldwide Rus” on collaboration for the purposes of development of urban port infrastructure for the cruise shipping. The document was signed by Igor Pushkarev, head of Vladivostok Administration, Alexey Nemkov, Deputy General […]

  • Guam: PAG to Break Ground on Modernization Projects

    30 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Port Authority of Guam (PAG) Board of Directors and Management announced that they will be breaking ground on the long awaited and anticipated port modernization projects. Slated for Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 0900 hours at the Port’s Container Freight Station, the groundbreaking ceremony will usher in capital improvement projects needed to accommodate organic […]

  • Russia: FSUE Rosmorport Holds Expanded Meeting on Navigation Safety

    23 November 2011

    FSUE “Rosmorport” has held an expanded meeting concerning the issues of navigation safety, accident risks prevention and reduction. With deputy General director of FSUE “Rosmorport” for navigation safety V.Y. Vanyukov in head, representatives of 14 enterprise branches and a Captain of the seaport of Arkhangelsk took part in the meeting. The meeting concurred with the […]

  • VIDEO: Port of Husum Dredging Program

    29 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Koninklijke Smals, a Dutch company involved in hydraulic and civil-engineering works, has released a video about their dredging and remediation project in Port of Husum, one of Germany’s seaports along the North Sea coast. Husum is famous for its tourism, HDR Shipyard and Senvion, one of Europe’s leading wind turbine manufacturers. Along the shipyard, the […]

  • Ship Finance to Issue USD 200 Mn of Convertible Bonds

    30 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    New York-listed Ship Finance International Limited revealed its plans to offer USD 200 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2021. Net proceeds from the offering would be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital and the repurchase of all or a portion of its existing 3.25% convertible notes. The notes will pay interest […]

  • Ha Long Shipyard Builds a Crane Barge for Damen

    27 November 2013

    VINASHIN’S Ha Long shipyard has been contracted by the Damen Shipyards Group to build a crane barge type 3216. The crane barge type 3216 is a non-self propelled pontoon, best suited for the operation in inland waterways, river and seaports, open water areas etc. On board of the barge a jib crane of 20/8 T […]

  • The British Consul Visited OSBSRP

    28 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    The British Consul General in St. Petersburg Keith Allan, as a part of the working visit to Petrozavodsk, recently visited the Onezhsky Ship Building and Ship Repairing Plant (OSBSRP). During the visit, the consul general met with workers and toured the company’s workshops. In particular, numerically controlled plasma cutting machines and workboats of project ST23WI […]

  • Rotterdam Offers Discount for LNG Bunkering

    16 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Dutch port of Rotterdam is introducing an additional incentive to bunker liquefied natural gas (LNG) through which seagoing vessels will benefit from a 10% discount on gross seaport dues. Rotterdam has reserved a total of EUR 1.5 million (USD 1.6 million) for this incentive, which is expected to apply until 2020. “In addition to the […]

  • AAPA Proposes Long-Term Funding Solution for Port Maintenance

    28 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), together with 100 supporting U.S. ports and other organizations, delivered a letter to House and Senate leadership earlier this week, urging them to enact a comprehensive solution to “fix the HMT (Harbor Maintenance Tax) for good”. As AAPA reported, America’s seaports are economic engines and vital freight gateways […]

  • Russia’s Gazprom and Japan’s Itochu ink Baltic LNG MoU

    14 December 2018
    Ports & Logistics

    Russian gas giant Gazprom and Japanese trading house Itochu have signed a memorandum of understanding on the proposed Baltic liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project. “With this document, the parties confirmed their interest in potential cooperation in the framework of the project,” Gazprom said in a statement on Thursday. The memorandum was signed during a meeting between Gazprom’s head Alexey […]

  • First Veja Mate Monopiles Reach Eemshaven

    14 March 2016

    The first three super-sized monopiles built for the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm arrived at the Dutch Eemshaven seaport on 10 March, with the remaining 64 giants soon to follow, Eemshavenonline.nl reports The monopiles were constructed in Rostock, Germany, by EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH. Weighing 1,302.5 tons each, they are the world’s heaviest monopiles ever built. The […]

  • Petrobras’ Brazilian FPSOs to sport Exail’s navigation tech

    7 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Exail, a subsidiary of Exail Technologies, has been hired to provide 30 Quadrans attitude and heading reference systems (AHRS), which will be installed on floating production, storage, and offloading units (FPSOs) working off the coast of Brazil for Petrobras, the country’s state-owned giant.

  • Sutramporpc: APM Starts Laying Off Striking Workers

    29 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    The strike in Callao, the chief seaport of Peru, has taken yet another turn, as workers have started receiving letters of employment termination from APM Terminals, according to local dockworkers’ union Sutramporpc. The workers launched an indefinite strike on May 13th due to the port operator, APM Terminal’s failure to agree on improved collective working conditions proposed by […]

  • US Ports Praise Water Resources Bill’s Move toward Congress Vote

    16 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA)  welcomed news that the U.S. House-Senate conference committee has completed negotiations and issued its report on the long-awaited and critically-needed water resources development legislation. Upon learning the 2014 Water Resources and Reform Development Act (WRRDA) is on its way to Congress for approval, AAPA immediately sent appreciation and […]

  • Beijing Discovers Anti-Trust Violations at Several Ports

    16 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    A two-month investigation launched in April this year by China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has found various anti-trust violations at the country’s seaports. As a result, Shanghai, Tianjin Port, Ningbo Zhoushan and Qingdao port groups have been ordered to cut the container handling fees as of 2018 ranging between 10-20 percent. NRDC said […]

  • POLB’s Container Volumes Rebound in April

    16 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Cargo numbers for containers at the Port of Long Beach, one of America’s premier seaports, were up in April by 9.7 percent overall, compared to the same month one year ago. Following a slow March due to the harsh winter in other parts of the country, April container volumes rebounded as weather patterns and shopping patterns […]

  • India interested in building LNG plant in Iran

    13 April 2016

    India’s minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, Dharmendra Pradhan voiced the interest from Indian companies to invest in LNG projects in Iran during his recent meeting with Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, Iran’s minister of petroleum in Tehran.

  • Japanese big three shipping companies mull over donating large training ship to JMETS

    21 July 2025
    Human Capital, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Japanese ‘big three’ shipping companies Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line), and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), along with the Japanese Shipowners’ Association (JSA), have initiated discussions to donate a large-sized training vessel to the Japan Agency of Maritime Education and Training for Seafarers (JMETS).

  • Van Oord Deploys Survey Vessel to Liberia

    21 February 2012

      A sophisticated survey vessel deployed by a Dutch-based international port dredging and marine engineering company, Van Oord, arrived in Liberia two days ago. The vessel will be utilized for conducting survey for debris and sand clogged at the seaports of Monrovia and Greenville in Montserrado and Sinoe Counties. The survey will be conducted in […]

  • AAPA: Port Industry Execs to Discuss Infrastructure Issues (USA)

    15 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The seventh annual Shifting International Trade Routes conference at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay Hotel will feature a press conference beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23. The program is sponsored by the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), in cooperation with the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd) and hosted by the Tampa Port Authority […]

  • Leixões-Rotterdam Ro-Ro Service on Upswing

    20 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    In 2014, one of Portugal’s major seaports, the Port of Leixões handled 404,650 tonnes of ro-ro cargo, over five times as much as in 2013 (75,171 tonnes). In units, the rise was as pronounced: from 5,600 to 22,910 last year, the port’s figures show. Virtually all ro-ro cargo is transported to and from the Port of […]

  • SCPA Posts Record Annual Volumes

    13 July 2017

    South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) moved a record 2.14 million TEU units in fiscal year 2017, an increase of 10 percent over the previous year’s container volumes. As explained, highest-ever June volumes of 183,237 TEUs gave SCPA a strong finish to its fiscal year, which runs July through June. The port’s previous record was 1.98 […]

  • EU Ports Reform Turning into an Empty Shell?

    23 September 2014

    The scope of the EU Regulation on Market access to port services and financial transparency of ports could be cut extensively as the text becomes ever more weakened  in the EU Council of Ministers, according to the European Community Shipowners’ Association (ECSA). In March, MEP Knut Fleckenstein, the rapporteur on the European Commission’s proposal for the Regulation said that […]

  • Dutch Ports Jointly Present at TransRussia

    18 April 2012

    Three Dutch ports jointly present themselves at the TransRussia exhibition in Moscow, the largest event in Russia, the Baltic region and the former Soviet republics for logistics, cargo, transport and international trade. The Dutch ports are Port of Amsterdam, Port of Rotterdam and Zeeland Seaports, powered by ABN AMRO Bank. TransRussia will take place in […]

  • Port of Los Angeles to Host Port’s Trade Seminar (USA)

    23 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    In an effort to expand the diverse audience of its highly successful Trade Connect Program, the Port of Los Angeles will host an export trade seminar conducted in the Spanish language on Thursday, September 27, from 1:30-5 p.m., at Los Angeles Harbor College’s Music Recital Hall, located at 1111 Figueroa Place, in Wilmington. After Congresswoman […]