Port Everglades Towing Celebrates 43 Years of Service.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Port Everglades Towing, a division of Hvide Marine Incorporated (Nasdaq: HVDM), in January celebrated its 43rd year of service to Port Everglades and the people of Broward County. Founded on January 23, 1958, by the late Hans Hvide and three...

Seminar-workshop on port security a big success - DoTC.
Byline: YUL MALICSE MANILA Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Larry R. Mendoza said that the seminar-workshop on Guidance to Review, Assessment, Verification and Approval of Port Security Assessment and Plans held last June 17 to 19 at the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) Training Center in South Harbor,...

Full maritime code compliance assured.
Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro R. Mendoza yesterday cited a seminar-workshop on the review, assessment, verification, and approval of port facility security assessments and plans attended by government maritime officials in a bid to hasten and ensure compliance with the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code. ...

Sink the Dubai ports deal! Our ports are gateways to America, and it does not make sense to put them under the control of a foreign power--particularly an Islamic regime tied to al-Qaeda.
Like most Americans, President Bush knew nothing, if you believe his tubdrummers, about the infamous plan to cede control of six major American seaports to the United Arab Emirates. Technically, a company called Dubai Ports World (DPW) will run the ports, but given that DPW is state owned, it's...

Around The Nation.
P5-B harbor hailed Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza yesterday stressed the strong bond between the government and private investors in realizing the gains of the transportation and communications sectors. Mendoza made the statement as the countrys most modern port terminal announced that it was...

Ports agency rolls out automation project.
Byline: edu h. lopez The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has started rolling out its web-based facility dubbed as electronic port (e-Port). e-Port is part of PPA?s P600-million computerization program undertaken by Unisys Philippines and its project management consultant, Economic Development Foundation (EDF). It...

Ports agency rolls out automation project.
Byline: edu h. lopez The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has started rolling out its web-based facility dubbed as electronic port (e-Port). e-Port is part of PPAs P600-million computerization program undertaken by Unisys Philippines and its project management consultant, Economic Development Foundation (EDF). It...

Asian Terminals net profit declines 39% at P389 M.
Byline: ANA MARIE MACUJA Port and logistics operator Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI) yesterday reported a 39 percent drop in net income for the year 2003 to P389.5 million from P640.67 million in 2002. ATI, however, disclosed its full-year revenues from ports and non-ports businesses remained...

"An old sailor's lament": Herman Melville, the Stone Fleet, and the Judgment of History.
In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln ordered the blockade of southern ports. A fleet of aged whale ships loaded with stone was sent to Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, and sunk at the mouths of the harbors in an unsuccessful attempt to block them. Melville's poem, "The Stone Fleet,"...

P/$ rate closed at P46.60/$ 1.
The peso exchange rate closed at P46.60 to the US dollar last Friday at the Philippine Dealing Exchange. The weighted average rate stands at P46.671. Banks' NPL ratio dips to 5.28% Commercial banks' bad loans had fallen to 5.28 percent of their combined loan portfolios...