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Workers at Australian ports were scheduled to pause at midday as a mark of respect for a colleague who died at the port of Brisbane on Saturday afternoon. P&O Automotive and General Stevedoring worker Brad Gray was killed when he was struck by a forklift carrying a waste bin while working the 1991-built general cargo ship, [...]  China’s container shipping freight rates have risen 17 percent this year, approaching 2008 highs, as global trade continues to recover from depressed levels in 2009, the Shanghai Shipping Exchange said on Friday. A spike in demand for goods made in China at the end of last year helped container ports in Shanghai, Hong Kong and [...] The CMA CGM Mozart in Hamburg CMA CGM, the struggling French container shipping line, will receive no conventional state aid but has spent months trying to persuade France’s sovereign wealth fund to invest, its finance director said yesterday, saying that efforts to bring in private equity investors, including Goldman Sachs and Texas Pacific Group, [...] Police patrolling the Port of Los Angeles have a new tool to help improve surveillance at one of the nation’s busiest ports. A mobile technology company announced Thursday it will provide officers with software that will enable them to capture live video using their cell phone cameras. Julia Kirwan, a port police official, said the [...] After port workers went on strike on Wednesday at Saint Nazaire to protest changes in reforms to workers conditions including privatisation, the country was hit by widespread industrial action as other ports came out in sympathy in a 24 hour stoppage called by the national port union, part of the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) [...] |
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