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WESTPORTS Malaysia has announced that it handled 5.55 million TEU in 2010, up 25 per cent year on year against the 4.45 million TEU lifted in 2009. Local import and export containers handled by Westports grew 22 per cent while transshipment traffic increased 23 per cent, reflecting an sound recovery in both domestic and regional trade in 2010. Addit...
CONTAINER volume through Rotterdam increased 14.4 per cent to a record 11.1 million TEU in 2010, an increase that was below Antwerp's more than 16 per cent, but ahead of Zeebrugge's rise of 7.4 per cent, observed London's Containerisation International. "More and more ships of steadily increasing size are being used on this route and these are able t...
SHENZHEN's container throughput increased 13.1 per cent to 20.7 million TEU in the first 11 months of 2010 over 2009's corresponding 18.3 million TEU, Xinhua reports. Overall, the port handled 202 million tonnes of cargo, up 15.6 per cent from the 194 million tonnes in the same period in 2009. Foreign trade cargo amounted to 157 million tonnes, up 20....
HONG KONG's Hutchison Whampoa has announced it will buy several port and property assets from China Resources (Holdings) Co for HK$5.7 billion ($732.5 million), reported Reuters. The deal will include equity stakes in HIT Investments Ltd, Hongkong International Terminals, Splendid Century Ltd, Hutchison Ports Yantian Investments Ltd, and Omaba Investme...
South Korean ports' cargo throughput in November rose by 13.5% to 106.79m tons. This turns out a new monthly record, the Korean Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime statistics said. Container throughput at the nation’s ports in November was 1.65m TEU, an increase of 10.3% year-on-year. Busan’s throughput was nearly 1.21 TEU, ac...
Containerized cargo out of Port Everglades, Fla., exceeded previous-year volume by 9.6% in October and November, the port said Tuesday. The port handled 136,568 TEUs in the first two months of its fiscal 2011, compared with 124,693 TEUs in the same period of fiscal 2010. Spokeswoman Ellen Kennedy said that the increase shows the port’s recovery fr...
DP World and Abu Dhabi Terminals (ADT) announced today that, with the expiry of a five year management services agreement, from the new year, marine terminal operations at Abu Dhabi’s Mina Zayed will be handled by ADT. The terminal is currently managed by DP World. In addition, discussions around the operations for the new Khalifa Port have no...
Freight traffic volume via Free Port of Riga (Latvia) may exceed this year-end 30 million tons, a record volume ever handled by the port, the Port Authority statement said. Free Port of Riga Board's Chairman Andris Ameriks said the 30m-ton volume was the result of a long work of the authority to increase traffic volume. In 2010 the port channeled to th...
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