dbmy3
June 17, 2022, 2:32am
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A Halifax to U.S. East Coast was attempted a while back. The idea is possibly viable if you are ready to bleed cash for awhile.
Peter T. Leach, Senior Editor | Apr 27, 2012 1:00PM GMT
The Journal of Commerce Online - News Story
Breakbulk/Ro-Ro
| Short Sea/Barge
| Container Shipping
Company had suspended feeder service out of Halifax this week
American Feeder Lines, which suspended its 9-month-old feeder service from Halifax to Portland, Me. and Boston this week, is going out of business.
“We had to pull the plug because there was not enough volume on the service,” Said Rudy Mack, chief operating officer of the New…
French honour to the CEO of MPA Singapore:
Ley Hoon Quah, the chief executive of the Maritime & Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore, has been awarded France’s highest honour, becoming a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, in further evidence of the extremely close maritime ties between the...
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NOTE; French Container Shipping Company CMA CGM has major interests in Singapore, both as a user of it’s port and shipyards and also because much of its activities in Asia and the Pacific are run from it’s Asian HQ in Singapore. Many if it’s owned and BB chartered ships are managed from there.
PS> CMA CGM also took over Singapore’s national shipping company Neptune Orient Line (NOL) and with it APL, which NOL had acquired earlier.
MSC is splashing out in Vietnam:
Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) is involved in plans to develop Vietnam’s largest box port complex. Terminal Investment Limited (TIL), MSC’s port subsidiary, has tied up with Vietnam National Shipping Lines and Saigon Port, to press ahead with a...
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Who say things work slowly in Nigeria? Here is proof that they can get things done, if the right conditions are met:
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello has assured that the controversial dredging of the Calabar Channel, which was awarded in 2006 to Messers Jan De Nul and Van Oord at a cost of $56 million dollars has been...
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Pasir Panjang Terminal in Singapore gets battery storage system:
COURT RULES CONTAINER LASHING TO BE ASSIGNED TO DOCKERS, NOT SEAFARERS:
Don’t know if this affect US seafarers and Longshoremen. (??)
1 Lng + 1 Lpg vessel at Dolphins 90 & 91 Rotterdam Maasvlakte 2
Photo: Hans Hoffmann ©
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ombugge
August 20, 2022, 12:15pm
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Towards a Europe wide CO2 capture, transport and permanent storage system:
Fluxys, ArcelorMittal Belgium and North Sea Port have started a feasibility study for the Ghent Carbon Hub project, an open-access CO2 storage and liquefaction hub in the Ghent part of North Sea Port.
ombugge
September 1, 2022, 6:28pm
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Phase 1 of Tuas Port has be officially opened:
PSA Corporation today officially inaugurated Tuas Port along Singapore’s western seaboard, with the first three berths operational at phase one of the development. The giant, multi-billion dollar port has been built with long-term vision through to...
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Full completion is planned for 2040
ombugge
September 2, 2022, 10:20am
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This could have gone in the Climate Change thread, but that has been closed:
ombugge
September 16, 2022, 10:19am
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I knew stevedoring was heavy work:
Seven Port of Long Beach dockworkers are among nine people charged this week for an alleged health care fraud, which included submitting more than $2m claims to their union’s health insurance plan, much of which was to pay for sexual services. The...
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And the new answer to the “what is causing the supply chain issues?” question goes to…
Can someone tell me what port goes by the acronym US-EWK?
ombugge
October 24, 2022, 7:05pm
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