Despite the treacherous weather conditions sweeping the UK over the last two weeks, Teesport, one the UK’s busiest ports remained open for business. This is in spite of being located on the North East coast, one of the areas hardest hit by the unprecedented and severe snowfall. Although most of the news bulletins focussed on the UK's airports...
Reinforcing Qingdao's position as a national distribution centre, three large berths are expected to open at Dongjiakou Port by the end of 2010, two years ahead of schedule. One is an ultra-large ore berth, while the others are 50,000-tonne general-purpose facilities, reported China Daily. They are just a small fraction of the port's planned 112 b...
In November 2010, the International Cargo Centre Shenzhen (ICCS) broke through the 7,100 tonnes throughput to achieve the highest so far in 2010. In December, the tonnage is expected to rise further. Compared with the same period last year, the November growth rate was close to 20 percent. (Source:www.cargonewsasia.com)
Asciano chief executive Mark Rowsthorn has played down speculation the group would look to sell its container ports assets to concentrate on growing its coal rail division, which makes higher returns. "They are an important part of the business and they allow us to diversify our earnings," he said. But Rowsthorn did not dismiss the possibility out o...
Hong Kong's total port cargo throughput rose to 67.8 million tons in the third quarter, up 5 percent over a year earlier, the city's Census and Statistics Department announced Tuesday. According to the statistics, inward and outward port cargo rose 8 percent and 2 percent to 39.1 million tons and 28.7 million tons respectively. For the first nine ...
Malaysia's state oil firm Petronas got its subsidiary Petronas Gas to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to provide regasification services at the country's west coast near the Sungai Udang Port in Malacca. Two floating storage units will receive and store the LNG before it is regasified, which will then be transported to other parts of Ma...
Freight flows via the port of Liepaja (Latvia) in January-November fell by 0.3% from the same period last year, to 3,94 million tons, PortNews reported citing the Liepaja Port Authority press service. Shipment of grain through the port’s terminal shrank by 22% to 1.24 million tons, crude oil was down 18.8% to 113,000 tons, while petroleum products...
SP-PSA, the joint venture between Saigon Port, Vinalines and PSA Vietnam Pte Ltd (a wholly-owned subsidiary of PSA International) that operates Vietnam’s first deep sea container terminal located near the mouth of the Cai Mep-Thi Vai river, has set a new productivity record for Vietnamese container ports. This is the third time in less than 12 mon...
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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