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The Klaipeda Port Authority (Lithuania) and AO BMGS have signed a contract to build a pier N143a and coastline increase in the Bay of Malki. According to the Port Authority the project might cost about EUR 6.7 million. The length of the pier N143a will be 290 m, depths - 10 m. The terminal will be handling increasing container flow in the southern part ...
The Indian Shipping Ministry ordered all major port authorities to strictly implement new measures to improve the security and handling of hazardous materials, the ministry said. The measures, suggested by a port security expert committee, were sought after the July 14, 2010 chlorine gas leak at the Port of Mumbai. The committee, headed ...
Germany's Duisburg port, the world’s busiest inland port, boosted container traffic 25 percent in 2010 from the year before, outpacing growth at Europe’s top box hubs. The port, on the Rhein river midway between Cologne and Rotterdam, handled a record 2.25 million 20-foot equivalents transported by trucks, freight trains and inland waterway...
SHENZHEN's China Merchants Group, a terminal investor that moves 33 per cent of China's container traffic, is on the lookout for offshore port building projects as it expects the China trade growth to slow in 2011. "In 2011, there will be volume growth, but it won't be as stellar as 2010," company chairman Fu Yuning told Bloomberg in an interview, bu...
The German port of Duisburg, Europe’s largest inland port, saw record levels in container throughput in 2010, according to a media report. According to an overview by Lloyd’s List, total box handling at the port will reach approximately 2.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) at year-end. According to port operator Duisport, this...
Seoul: Cargo throughput of all South Korean ports achieved 106.79m tons in November, an increase of 13.5% year-on-year and a new record for the month, according to the statistics of the Korean Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs (MLTM). Container throughput at the nation's ports in November was 1.65m TEU, an increase of 10.3% year-on-...
Guangdong: A newly constructed VLCC-size oil terminal in Zhanjiang port, one of the largest in South China, was put into operation yesterday, the same day as the largest coal terminal in the region able to receive 150,000dwt vessels was also inaugurated at the port. Zhanjiang port now boasts two VLCC-size oil terminals, one 250,000dwt iron ore terminal ...
THE US Port of Charleston's container throughput in November totalled 65,251 pier containers, representing an increase of 14.4 per cent compared to the same month last year. A statement from port authorities said that in the first 11 months of 2010, Charleston's container volume was up 17.5 per cent. Container volume over the past five months was up 1...
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