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Xinfa Targets 10 Bauxite Shipments
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Xinfa Targets 10 Bauxite Shipments

Xinfa Aurum Bauxite Company is planning to make 10 bauxite shipments to China, this year. The Chinese bauxite mining...

Aitken Spence Plans Right Product To Boost Port Capacity
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Aitken Spence Plans Right Product To Boost Port Capacity

Aitken Spence PLC plans to provide our ports with the right products to boost capacity. For the last 15 months since...

Ports Terminal Sets Up Business Plan
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Ports Terminal Sets Up Business Plan

Fiji Ports Terminal Limited has set up a business plan based on consultative, integrated, staged and financially-sus...

Expect Changes At Port Mua-i-Walu
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Expect Changes At Port Mua-i-Walu

The revamp report, which will completely change the activities at Mua-i-Walu Port, is due this month. This was revea...

Warning On Pollution
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Warning On Pollution

In a move to prevent pollution at sea, the Fiji Ports Corporation Limited (FPCL) will soon be implementing strong me...

Proposed New Port Of Entry To Boost Tourism, Says Hotelier
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Proposed New Port Of Entry To Boost Tourism, Says Hotelier

Having another port of entry in Vanua Levu could be the needed catalyst to bring in more tourists, says a veteran ho...

Vessel Owner Tells Of Challenges
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Vessel Owner Tells Of Challenges

A local shipping company has stated the new law implemented by the Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji (MSAF), in stop...

Skeggs: Learn, Move On
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Skeggs: Learn, Move On

Fiji can improve on its services when it comes to quick clearance of yachts from Port Denarau Marina. Port Denarau L...

Nauru President Familiarises With Our Port Operations
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Nauru President Familiarises With Our Port Operations

The President of Nauru, Baron Waqa, visited the Port of Suva the past week. The visit was to allow the President to ...

New MSAF Law Under Scrutiny
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New MSAF Law Under Scrutiny

Ship owners around the country will meet in Suva next month to discuss the recent move by the Maritime Safety Author...

Matson And Pacific Direct Line New Agreement
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Matson And Pacific Direct Line New Agreement

Matson (South Pacific) Limited has signed a Connection Carrier Agreement with Pacific Direct Line. This takes into e...

More Opportunities
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More Opportunities

Famous Pacific (New Zealand) Limited says Singapore’s SingPost deal to acquire 90 per cent of parent company, Famo...

Fiji Ships Initiative Boosts Profits
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Fiji Ships Initiative Boosts Profits

Fiji Ships & Heavy Industries Limited said part its growth in 2014 was enabled through a sub-contracting initiat...

Levuka Wharf Due For Upgrade
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Levuka Wharf Due For Upgrade

Expressions of interest have been called for the consultancy tender to rectify the Levuka Wharf. Although the coloni...

Fiji Ports Focus On Master Plan
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Fiji Ports Focus On Master Plan

Fiji Ports Corporation Limited will this year look to improve a number of areas. Top on the list is its Ports Develo...

Calls For Port Improvements
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Calls For Port Improvements

A former senior executive of the then Fiji Islands Maritime Safety Authority (FIMSA) believes that a lot of work nee...

Cargo Company Expands Operation
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Cargo Company Expands Operation

Sending cargoes to the islands and you hate the long wait at the jetty just to get those cargoes on board? If your d...

Piyasena Highlights 2014 Results
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Piyasena Highlights 2014 Results

Fiji Ports Corporation did very well last year. Just ask chief executive Vajira Piyasena. This was after it recorded...

First Car Carrier Of 2015 Arrives
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First Car Carrier Of 2015 Arrives

The MV Pacific Islander II became the first car carrier to discharge it is cargo to ourshores in 2015. The roll-on r...

Fatal Bulk Jupiter Bauxite Wreck Shocks And Marine Insurers
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Fatal Bulk Jupiter Bauxite Wreck Shocks And Marine Insurers

Dry bulk vessel Bulk Jupiter’s dramatic wreck around 150 nautical miles off the coast of Vietnam on January 1st, i...

Plan For Shuttle Services To Islands
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Plan For Shuttle Services To Islands

Seaview Shipping Limited is expected to take shipping to outer islands to a whole new level with the expected arriva...

MISEL Talks About Expansion
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MISEL Talks About Expansion

The Marine Industrial and Structural Engineering Limited (MISEL) directors are seriously looking at expanding the sl...

Moroivalu Calls For Partnership
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Moroivalu Calls For Partnership

Newly- appointed Commissioner Eastern Luke Moroivalu believes having public private partnership is a solution to tra...

Matson To Cut Fuel Surcharge For Hawaii, Pacific Shipping Services
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Matson To Cut Fuel Surcharge For Hawaii, Pacific Shipping Services

Matson Inc. said Monday that it is lowering its fuel surcharge for its Hawaii and Pacific shipping services by four ...

Ports Terminal Urges  All for Common Goal
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Ports Terminal Urges All for Common Goal

Ports Terminal Limited has called on all stakeholders in the shipping industry to work together and work towards a c...

Consort Shipping On The Move
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Consort Shipping On The Move

The management of Consort Shipping Company Limited is confident of a fruitful year. Consort Shipping manager finance...

Business Was Slow
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Business Was Slow

Business during the festive season was slow, says a local ship owner. Blighwater Shipping Limited chief executive of...

Ports To Introduce Automated System
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Ports To Introduce Automated System

Come February or March, you would see changed productivity at our international ports. That’s the phrase of confid...

Productivity Starts From Within: Ali
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Productivity Starts From Within: Ali

Nabeel Ali, the newly appointed operations manager for Ports Terminal Limited, is a man of commitment and conviction...

Ports Terminal Tower Renovation To Boost Staff Morale: Dela
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Ports Terminal Tower Renovation To Boost Staff Morale: Dela

Ports Terminal Limited is soon to complete the renovation of its tower and main operations building in a bid to impr...

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