Cape Breton Launches Container Terminal Bid

  The Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM), located in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, today launched a marketing campaign to promote the strategic advantages of developing a container shipping port terminal in Sydney harbor. The announcement comes after CBRM recently agreed to purchase approximately 500 acres of greenfield waterfront land for the purpose of building a…

East Asia Action Week Commences Monday

  ITF inspectors and union members will launch a maritime action week across East Asian ports next week from Monday 9 to Friday 13 July in Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan. This is the second East Asia week of action for 2012, and will involve joint teams of ITF inspectors, and seafarer and docker trade…

IMO Issues SOLAS Update(s)

  International Code for the Application of Fire Test Procedures (2010 FTP Code) mandatory from 1 July 2012. Amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) to make mandatory the International Code for the Application of Fire Test Procedures (2010 FTP Code) came into force on 1 July 2012, thereby…

Indonesia: Ports paralyzed as traffic at Bakauheni, Merak worsens

  The horrendous, kilometers-long traffic jams that have fouled Bakauheni and Merak ports for two days have been worsening due to vacationers looking to cross the Sunda Strait for the school holiday season. Thousands of trucks have been parked for days outside Bakauheni Port in Lampung in Sumatra and Merak Port in Banten in Java,…