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Brisbane: The flood-affected port of Brisbane is gradually reopening for shipping from today as the channel and berth pockets are surveyed and cleared, the local authority said. The Australian port was closed to all shipping activities since midnight Wednesday last week due to the dangers of severe flooding and debris obstructions. The Brisbane port authori...
Port Klang: Malaysia's Port Klang Authority (PKA) is hoping for another double-digit growth in cargo throughput volume this year, following a 21% increase last year. Port Klang handled 8.9m teu in 2010, up from 7.9m teu in 2009. “Despite the recent economic crisis, Port Klang has posted relatively healthy growth figures. The strong support from our c...
CHENNAI, India's second largest container gateway, is struggling with further congestion problems because of difficulties with accessing roads to and from the port. The piling up of boxes in the yard exceed normal capacity of 8,000 at a total of 13,000 TEU, of which 6,275 are incoming and 1,455 are waiting to be loaded on ships, resulting in little doc...
AS of December 20, the Port of Guangzhou's container throughput surpassed 12 million TEU and cargo tonnage surpassed 400 million tonnes, making it the third largest port in China and the fifth in the world, Xinhua reports. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, which is from 2011 to 2015, Guangzhou plans to invest CNY20 billion (US$3 billion) on a numb...
Cameroon’s Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Louis Paul Motaze, is expected to travel to China for negotiations that could give China full authority to construct the nation’s ultramodern deep seaport in Kribi, Motaze’s communication officer said. “During [Motaze's] visit to China, clearer decisions would be...
DP World opened its new container terminal in Port Qasim near Karachi in Pakistan on Wednesday Jan 12, 2010 by celebrating the arrival of its first customer, the 276 m long and 40 m wide French container vessel CMA CGM Wagner. The opening of Terminal 2 will take capacity at DP World Karachi’s Port Qasim - Pakistan’s first dedicated internati...
A testament to a changing industry, the Port of Charleston next week will overhaul the way it handles the containers that cross its docks, reported The Sun-News. Currently some areas of local port terminals are licensed to shipping lines that, as part of their contracts, must meet a certain volume of cargo. Beginning Tuesday, those deals disappear in fa...
After a remarkable performance (+10%) in 2009 when container terminals worldwide were dramatically affected by the economic downturn, Sharjah based terminal and logistics company Gulftainer's UAE facilities Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) and Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT) have done it again in 2010 with volumes, compared with 2009, increasing by ano...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi
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