Pacific Tycoon
Blog / Aug 2012
The Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) recently released statistics for the year ending June 30, 2012, and the numbers show positive growth. LPC Chief Executive, Peter Davie, said “In the financial year just finished, the Port handled record volumes through the Container Terminal, plus other cargoes continued to grow throughout the region during this [...]
Oman Container Lines (OCL), which makes up a subsidiary of Oman Shipping Company, began a new independent container feeder connection last month. The India Express (IEX) offers a direct link between Nhava Sheva, India and Salalah, Oman. The OCL Eagle, a vessel with a cargo-carrying capacity of 2,860 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), now [...]
Container volume at the Port of Tacoma in Washington State has been rapidly rising with the addition of Grand Alliance ships calling on the port’s docks. The alliance, which is made up of some of the world’s largest shipping lines, including Hapag-Lloyd, Orient Overseas Container Line, and NYK Line, has caused the Port of Tacoma’s [...]
Last month the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) released statistics for the Fiscal Year 2012. Located in the Southeastern part of the U.S., with an expansive coastline along the Atlantic Ocean, the importance of Georgia ports to the U.S. economy was reaffirmed with new cargo volume records being set in the state for total tonnage, containers, [...]
In 2010, Evergreen Group began a new shipbuilding project by ordering 20 L-type vessels from Samsung Heavy Industries. The L-class containerships use modern technology and can reduce CO2 emission by 15% compared to Evergreen’s earlier S-class models. Recently, the Taiwan-based shipping line received the first three of its allotted L-class containerships. All the vessels have [...]
The Port of Salalah in Oman recently released statistics for the first half of the year, and the numbers show a steady increase in cargo volume. During the second quarter of 2012, the port handled a total of 920,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), its highest quarterly total ever, while in the first half of the [...]
A recent press release from the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) confirms that the proposed massive Port City Development Project is still on schedule with construction set to begin later this year. The project has an estimated price tag of $15 billion, with an earlier report in The Island Financial Review claiming that the project’s [...]
Cargo volume at Port Metro Vancouver grew across the board in the first six months of this year, according to statistics released by the port’s official website. Container traffic set a new record in the first half of the year, as 1.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) were handled- a 6% jump from the same [...]
Intermarine, LLC, a U.S.-based shipping organization, and Scan-Trans Holding A/S, based in Denmark, recently announced a merger between the two companies to create a new premier organization specializing in project and heavylift cargo transportation. Al Stanley, President and CEO of Intermarine, said, “We believe the Company will set the standard for customer service and value [...]
Statistics released by the Ministry of Land, Transport, and Maritime Affairs of the Republic of Korea (MLTM) show that the Korean national ports have seen a cargo volume growth in the first six months of the year. The volume handled at the 31 trade ports nationwide equated to 668,350,000 tons, which is a 3.5% increase [...]
