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HAMBURG terminal operator Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA) in Germany has placed an order with Cargotec for 14 of its Kalmar diesel-electric straddle carriers. The new machines will be deployed at HHLA's Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) and will be delivered in September this year. The new straddle carriers feature selective catalytic reduction ...
HE Jianzhong, spokesman of China Ministry of Transportation, divulged that CNY200 billion (US$30.6 billion) will be spent on China-wide river transport projects from 2011 to 2015, twice that invested between 2006 and 2010. Investment from the government will account for CNY45 billion, 170 per cent more than in the earlier five-year period, Xinhua report...
HEATHROW airport cargo workers at the Swissport ground handling facility are holding a strike vote over problems involving the use of agency staff and new employment contracts, reports Press Association, adding that ballot result will be known on May 4, after which, the union must give seven days notice of any action. Qantas, South African Airlines, Korea...
JAPAN's Sendai Airport has reopened to commercial flights, the last airport to do so in the country's tsunami and earthquake-stricken northeastern region. Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways offer six daily return flights, four from Haneda Airport and two from Itami Airport in Osaka, reported Newark's Journal of Commerce. The airlines have yet ...
DHL Freight has opened a 20,000 square metre facility in the Ukraine to service eastern Europe and in particular Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. The facility based near Kiev in the village of Kalinovka will provide 17 docking positions for trucks, a complete handling and storage area with video surveillance, electronic access control and intrusion systems f...
CANADIAN National Railway Company (CN) has announced the acquisition of more than 1,000 new containers to transport grocery and consumer goods to domestic markets across Canada. About 80 per cent of the new containers are heated for temperature-sensitive goods and the remainder of the boxes are standard dry containers. Jean-Jacques Ruest, executive vi...
SHIP Finance International Limited has agreed to build four 4,800-TEU newbuildings at a state-owned shipyard in China with scheduled delivery in 2013. The aggregate construction cost will be US$230 million, with most of the payment due on delivery. The company expects to secure bank financing for up to 80 per cent of the purchase price, it said in a stat...
SHANGHAI listed China Shipbuilding Industry plans to sell US$1.9 billion in shares to help fund its acquisition of seven affiliates, including makers of torpedoes and submarine telescopes, Bloomberg reported. Parent company China Shipbuilding Industry Corp and nine other institutional investors have agreed to buy up to one billion new shares in the priva...
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