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Kuala Lumpur: Competitive price, efficient services, and a speedy turnaround time is to drive Malaysian ports to achieve 7% growth in cargo handling this year, Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha, Minister of Transport said. Malaysian ports handled 18.4m teus last year, increased 14.8%, compared to 16.04m teus in 2009. "We expect further growth for this year and ahe...
SRI LANKA's bunker companies want the government to open up ship fuel supplies to the private sector at the new Hambantota port on the south coast close to the main shipping route, according to Lanka Business Online. Officials said the market for ship fuel can be expanded as hundreds of vessels daily sail past the Hambantota port which was opened in No...
IRAN can serve as a transit route for shipping goods between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said during a visit to Oman this week. Sixty per cent of the world's energy passes through the Strait of Hormuz which separates Iran and Oman, Mr Najjar said. "The sensitivity of the geopolitical conditio...
CONTINUING local strikes and labour disruptions are expected at French ports until April over late retirement provisions in the law affecting all workers as well as a move to privatise ports, informed sources tell London's Containerisation International. State-employed crane drivers dislike the idea of working for the private sector, which seeks wider ...
Thanks to bad roads and the absence of sufficient exit routes that hamper movement of trucks, Chennai port is in a mess.The port is overflowing with containers, and, as an official of a leading Custom House Agency said,the situation is very grim. The following statistic gives an idea of how grim the situation is,reported The Hindu. The DP World Chennai...
The CSAV America Express (AMEX) all-water service has added the Port of Savannah to its rotation, said Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) executive director Curtis Foltz. “The Port of Savannah offers a logistically friendly location with two on-terminal rail providers and immediate access to two interstate highways, which helps us attract addit...
International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) and South Harbour Asian Terminals Inc (ATI), two of the largest terminal operators in the country, have announced they they would implement a number of projects this year meant to help resolve port congestion, reported Thai News Service. ATI said it would build an offsite container yard near its Mani...
In what should be a major security concern for the authorities, one of the major entry points into India is very poorly secured, reported DNA. Officials have confirmed that only 10% of the containers off-loaded at India's largest container port, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) at Nhava Sheva in Navi Mumbai, are scanned. JNPT handles 65 percent o...
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.
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