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Some 202m tonnes of cargo moved through Brazil’s public private ports/terminals during Q3, 2010 according to the national water transportation agency, Agência Nacional de Transportes Aquaviários (ANTAQ). The volume was up 12.5% from the preceding quarter and 21.9% up on Q3 2009 and brought volume for the year to September, to 558.4m tonne...
The US Port of Oakland and China Merchants Holdings International Company Limited (CMHI) have agreed to strategically market and develop supply chain solutions for US exports, particularly agricultural commodities and perishable products. An Oakland port delegation recently participated in a signing ceremony at China Merchants' Hong Kong headquarters. Effo...
Jeddah: Abdul Aziz Al-Tuwaijri, chairman of Saudi Ports Authority (SPA), on Sunday signed two contracts worth SR435.96m for the expansion of Ras Al-Zour Port in the Eastern Province. Transport Minister Jabara Al-Seraisry attended the signing ceremony. China Harbor Engineering Company won the first contract valued at SR318.95m to build two berths while Z...
Karachi: Karachi Port Trust has reduced port fees by 20% as a means of attracting more customers. The port will now charge $2.34 per teu and $0.14 for every non-containerised ton. Karachi finds itself in an increasingly competitive ports landscape. It has recently dredged its berths to 16m and is trying to attract post panamax ship cals. Pakistan cu...
The volume of freight flows handled by the ports of Ukraine in January-November 2010 totaled 97,671,000 tons, or the same volume as last year. Transit goods shipment during the reporting period amounted to 29,140,000 tons, the Ministry of Transport of Ukraine said citing Ukrmorrichflot’s provisional data. "We have not lost from last year’s p...
Vitol Tank Terminals International (VTTI) said Tuesday the construction of its oil storage terminal in Vassiliko, Cyprus, will commence in January 2011. The terminal "will be built to world class standards with the highest safety and environmental standards in place," said VTTI President Rob Nejst. The facility, which is a 50/50 joint venture with m...
Container volumes at Sri Lanka's Colombo port reached new highs during November, local media has reported. Containers handled at the port hit a record of two million during November 2010, up 26.5% from the same period last year, as container volumes reached a new high of four million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). Local import and export cont...
Cargo handling at the port of Tallinn (Estonia) in January-November 2010 rose by 16.5% to 33,203,400 tons, the Port Authority statistics said. Eleven-month container traffic increased by 17% to 139,761 TEUs. In the reporting period the port handled 23,173,800 tons of liquid bulk cargo, up 11.6% over the same period last year, 5,057,300 tons of bulk ...
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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