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Spains dockworkers unions called off the first two days of the 9-days strike scheduled for March, 6 and 8 and expect to continue negotiations with the government on the dock labour system reform. However, the actionon March, 10 as well as those every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the

SAN DIEGO, CA – (Uptick Newswire – March 7, 2017) – Mentor Capital, Inc. (OTCQB: MNTR) met with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of Newport Beach at his reception by the Cannabis Host Committee in San Diego, March 6th, 2017. Mentor CEO, Chet Billingsley, nicknamed “The Doc” by the Congressman, outlined

Yesterday Maersk and IBM unveiled a new mutual project to develop a new solution based on blockchain technology to manage transactions between shipping lines, shippers, freight forwarders, ports and customs. The product is said to be available already later this year. Applying innovative blockchain

German short sea shipping line OPDR, part of the CMA CGM Group, and Spanish Boluda Corporacin Martima have started jointly operating the container terminal in the port of Seville, Spains only navigable river port located 52 nautical miles from the Atlantic Ocean. As announced in OPDRs press

Maersk Salalah calls Lazaro Cardenas. Source: APM Terminals On Monday, 27 February, APM Terminals Lazaro Cardenas, Mexicos largest container terminal, welcomed its first official vessel, reports APM Terminals. The 9,600 TEU Maersk Salalah on the AC2 Transpacific service from Asia called the

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Grand Aniva LNG tanker. Source: Sovcomflot The privatization of 25% - 1 share of Russias Sovcomflot (SCF) will be realized through public offering at Moscow stock exchange, said yesterday Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin. TASS news agency also quotes his comment that a simultaneous

BOXHUNTER RTG. Source: Konecranes Last week Konecranes signed an agreement with Terport S.A. (Terminales Portuarias S.A.) in Paraguay, South America to deliver 2 BOXHUNTER Rubber Tired Gantry cranes (RTGs), as announced by Konecranes. The equipment is to be delivered in early 2018. The parties have

The total handling capacity of the Russian sea ports has increased in 2016 by 32 mln tons, reaching 715-720 mln tons, according to the estimates of the Federal Agency Rosmorrechflot. The capacity growth was provided by the construction of new terminals as well as by the expansion of the operating

Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven. Source: EUROGATE Eurogate has announced that since April, 2017 six more container shipping lines will call at its Wilhelmshaven terminal in Germanys only deep-water JadeWeserPort. The six lines are COSCO Shipping, OOCL, CMA CGM and Evergreen forming the newly

Teddy Folmer at Liebherr manufacturing plant in Rostock, Germany. Source: Liebherr The Danish company A. Henriksen Shipping A/S has signed a contract for a new multi-purpose Liebherr mobile harbour crane, type LHM 550, announced todays press release of Liebherr Maritime Cranes. The new crane with a

DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk met last week at the World Government Summit in Dubai, as announced in DP Worlds statement. At the meeting, they discussed potential application of Teslas state-of-the-art technology in port operations. In

Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has entered into acontractwith Hanjin Shipping and Marine Terminals Investment Limited (MTIL) to acquire Hanjin Pacific Corporations 100% stake in terminals in Tokyo and Kaohsiung, announces the companys press release. Hanjin Pacific Corporation (HPC) is owned by

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Artistic impression of the new vessel. Source: UECC Petrolesport Ro-Ro terminal (PLP) in St.Petersburg, Russia has finished unloading new E-Class vessels of United European Car Carriers (UECC), Europe's leading short sea Ro-Ro operator, writes PortNews. The terminal successfully handled 3 vessel

Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg. Source: UCL Holding Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg (CTSP, member of UCL Holding), Russia, invested about RUR 1.5 bln (approx. USD 22.4 mln) in the terminal development in 2016, which is 2.3 times more than in 2015. The funding was used to purchase new

Yesterday at Virginia International Gateway (VIG), US East Coast, survey crews began the preparatory work commencing a USD 320 mln three-year expansion project that will nearly double the terminals annual capacity, announced the Virginia Port Authority press release. The project is the first of two

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Amazon.com was pummeled on Wall Street Thursday after its holiday season sales fell short of expectations. "Part of the revenue miss might be the ongoing shift to being a third-party marketplace," RJ Hottovy, senior retail analyst at Morningstar, told CNBC's "Closing Bell." "When that happens,