Shapoorji Pallonji gets okay for port.
Byline: Anil Nair & Himanshu Darji AHMEDABAD: Mumbai-based infrastructure major Shapoorji Pallonji is foraying into bulk cargo-handling business and has got clearance to develop a greenfield port in Gujarat. The company's marine infrastructure wing, AFCONS, recently received a letter of interest (LoI) from the state...

SSA Marine 'Substantially' Reduces Emissions by Container Handling Equipment at Port of Long Beach.
ENERGY RESOURCE-15 February 2007-SSA Marine 'Substantially' Reduces Emissions by Container Handling Equipment at Port of Long Beach(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com SSA Marine has substantially reduced air emission levels from the container handling equipment used in its operations at Terminal A in the Port of Long Beach, California....

Coastal Maritime to Sell Terminal Operation and Stevedoring Businesses to Affiliate of ICS Logistics.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Coastal Maritime Stevedoring, LLC (CML) today announced it has executed a definitive agreement to sell CML and affiliated companies (Coastal Maritime) to an entity affiliated with ICS Logistics, LLC. Coastal Maritime is a leading multi-user marine terminal operator and stevedore headquartered in Jacksonville,...

POSCO all set to get govt nod for port construction.
Byline: Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI: Even as POSCO's SEZ proposal faces uncertainties, the steel maker is all set to get government nod to construct a port to support its proposed 12 million tonnes steel plant in Orissa. The expert committee on infrastructure, under the ministry...

Posco port may get govt nod soon.
Byline: Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI: Even as Posco's SEZ (special economic zone) proposal faces uncertainties, the steel maker is all set to get government's approval to construct a port to support its proposed 12-million-tonne (mt) steel plant in Orissa. The expert committee on infrastructure under...

Posco port project clears green hurdle.
Byline: Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI: Korean steel major Posco's $12 billion steel project in Orissa got a booster of sorts with the Centre giving the much-awaited environmental clearance to its port project. The company had been waiting for the environmental clearance for the last 18 months. The...

Container shipping lines to raise freight for busy Asia-Pacific route.
SINGAPORE, Feb. 22 (Reuters) -- Container shipping lines operating the busy route between America and Asia will increase prices for shipments and raise fuel surcharges to reflect higher operating costs, an industry group said on Thursday. The group of container carriers, known as the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization...

Developing the full potential of Subic Bay Freeport.
(Speech of President GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO as read by Undersecretary JOAQUIN LAGONERA at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Subic Bay Port Development Project. ) CHAIRMAN Felicito Payumo of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, Ambassador Kojiro Takagi of Japan to the Philippines, Mr. Osamu Murata, chief representative of...

Are we doing enough to improve our water transportation system?
Byline: A. ANNE VILLANUEVA The shipping industry has thrown its full support behind President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyos program to link the entire country by sea travel, but has also sought more government support and incentives so it can transport people and goods faster, more effectively and at cheaper...

Strategies for competitiveness; The Subic Freeport:.
IT has been three years, on September 1, 1998 to be exact, when the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, affirmed my assumption of office as Chair and Administrator of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority. It was, therefore, the day when we officially began a 6-year ''journey'' to fulfill...