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Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Port of long beach
Maritime News

Shippers Must Share the Financial Impact of Carriers’ IMO 2020 Compliance

By Mike Wackett in Long Beach (The Loadstar) – The implications for carriers and BCOs of the IMO low-sulphur regulations that come into force in

March 5, 2019
Total Views: 30

Friday, March 1, 2019
maersk apm terminals costa rica
Ports

Costa Rica Opens New Container Port on Caribbean Coast

SAN JOSE, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Costa Rica on Thursday opened a major new container port on an island built off its Caribbean coast that could deliver a

March 1, 2019
Total Views: 195

Tuesday, February 26, 2019
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Ports

BREXIT: A Timebomb Ticking In Wales

by Thomas Penny (Bloomberg) There’s an ominous number that keeps coming up in conversations among workers at the port handling the bulk of trade between the

February 26, 2019
Total Views: 31

Port Of Diego Garcia Aerial
Ports

Dispute Over Chagos Islands Is A Bilateral Matter Says A UK Foreign Minister

by Kylie MacLellan (Reuters) – Britain will consider the view of the World Court on control of the Chagos Islands but the dispute is with Mauritius and

February 26, 2019
Total Views: 147

port of Hodeidah, Yemen
Ports

What’s Wrong With The Peace Deal In Yemen’s Main Port?

by Aziz El Yakhoubi (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring parties have failed to leave the main port city of Hodeidah more than two months after agreeing to a

February 26, 2019
Total Views: 15

Thursday, February 21, 2019
Rio-Arauca-tanker
Maritime News

Crews To Abandon Two Venezuelan Tankers Stuck On Portugal

by Catarina Demony (Reuters) – The crew of Venezuelan oil tanker, the Rio Arauca, that has been stuck in the middle of the river Tagus in Lisbon for

February 21, 2019
Total Views: 55

Wednesday, February 20, 2019
port of inverness
Maritime News

Interview: Sinclair Browne, Chief Executive Port of Inverness, Talks Port Operations, Technology, Brexit And More

Interview by Paul González-Morgan (Marine Strategy) – Sinclair Browne is Chief Executive of the Port of Inverness, situated in the city of Inverness,

February 20, 2019
Total Views: 68

Monday, January 28, 2019
Crane Booms Collapses onto Containership at Port of Vancouver
Maritime News

Crane Booms Collapses onto Containership at Port of Vancouver

The boom of a giant ship-to-shore crane collapsed onto the deck of a containership at the Port of Vancouver on Monday. According to reports, the incident

January 28, 2019
Total Views: 122

Wednesday, January 23, 2019
hong kong port
Maritime News

Port of Hong Kong Ranking Falls to Lowest in at Least 40 Years

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Hong Kong’s continued slide down the rankings of the world’s great ports has pushed billionaire Li Ka-shing’s

January 23, 2019
Total Views: 70

Thursday, January 17, 2019
Rafnar Leiftur 1100
Maritime News

Inventions Shaping Our Oceans: Rafnar Hull

By Ariadne Dimoulas – This article series will look into inventions shaping today’s seascape. How has our mariner history resulted in today’s

January 17, 2019
Total Views: 1075

Monday, December 17, 2018
shipping container
Maritime News

Dubai’s DP World Seeks to Quash India Antitrust Probe Over Mumbai Port-Court Filing

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Dubai’s DP World has approached an Indian court to quash an antitrust investigation recently

December 17, 2018
Total Views: 10

Thursday, December 13, 2018
port of long beach
Maritime News

Trade War Pushes Port of Long Beach Towards New Cargo Record

Cargo volume at the Port of Long Beach continued to rise in November, setting the stage for a second consecutive calendar year record. The Port handled 621,835

December 13, 2018
Total Views: 29

cosco shipping
Maritime News

Blackstone, KKR Said to Pursue $1 Billion Container Terminal in Long Beach

By Gillian Tan and Vinicy Chan (Bloomberg) — Cosco Shipping Holdings Co.’s sale of a container terminal in Long Beach, California has drawn interest

December 13, 2018
Total Views: 66

Wednesday, November 21, 2018
brexit port
Maritime News

Northern French Ports Ready to Ease Congestion from Any Brexit Fallout

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Smaller ports in northern France are ready to absorb more shipping traffic from Britain if congestion builds

November 21, 2018
Total Views: 7

Friday, October 19, 2018
Piraeus Port
Maritime News

Piraeus Port Urges Greece to Speed Up Investment Plan Approval

By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA), operator of Greece’s largest port, wants the Greek government to

October 19, 2018
Total Views: 52

Friday, October 12, 2018
pier t long beach
Maritime News

Port of Long Beach Tops 8 Million TEU in FY2018

The Port of Long Beach closed out its 2018 fiscal year having handled 8,000,929 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) during the previous 12 months. This figure

October 12, 2018
Total Views: 17

Thursday, September 20, 2018
udessa, ukraine port
Maritime News

Ukrainian Ports Show a Nation’s Struggle to Join Global Economy

By James Gomez and Kateryna Choursina (Bloomberg) — Gleaming silos, towering container cranes and hulking cargo ships docked at quaysides in Europe’s

September 20, 2018
Total Views: 25

Tuesday, September 11, 2018
durban port harbor deepening
Maritime News

South Africa’s Transnet to Deepen Durban Port to Accommodate Larger Ships

By Tanisha Heiberg JOHANNESBURG, Sept 11 (Reuters) – South Africa’s Transnet said on Tuesday it will spend 7 billion rand ($464 million) to deepen

September 11, 2018
Total Views: 22

Monday, September 10, 2018
Port of long beach
Maritime News

Port of Long Beach Cargo Volume Dips in August

Container volumes at the Port of Long Beach fell 1.9 percent in August compared to 2017 figures amid the backdrop of uncertainty surrounding the U.S.-China

September 10, 2018
Total Views: 8

Friday, August 31, 2018
Delay-Hit Felixstowe Loses Another Service
Ports

Delay-Hit Felixstowe Loses Another Service

by Alexander Whiteman (TheLoadstar) CMA CGM heaped further misery on the port of Felixstowe this week by announcing it would withdraw one of its

August 31, 2018
Total Views: 13
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