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The volume of container cargo handled at South Korea's seaports rose to a record high for November thanks to a rise in export and import traffic, reported Yonhap. The volume of containers handled reached 1.65 million TEUs last month, up 10.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the report by the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. ...
THE number of sea port berths in south-eastern China's Fujian province will rise to 439 by the end of this year with 122 of over 10,000 tonnes, generating a capacity of 12.8 million TEU, Xinhua reported. During the period from 2006 to 2010, Fujian built 100 new berths, 56 of them are have more than 10,000-tonne capacity. These berths brought 180 millio...
TWO ships from separate African loops recently started calling at Ningbo's Meishan Island International Container Terminal, marking the launch of the first African services from the terminal, Xinhua reported. The Nile-Singapore, is from the service jointly operated by NileDutch and NYK, carried a full load of 2,100 TEU. French carrier Delmas, carrying ...
THE New York Shipping Association (NYSA) has the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) for more than US$5 million for damages arising from its two-day September strikes in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce. Picketing at New York-New Jersey was an attempt to pressure shipping lines using Packer Avenue ...
Container handling at Dar es Salaam Port has improved by over 30 per cent following the ending of the operating monopoly by Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS), reported All Africa. After the government had removed TICTS' exclusivity over a year ago, shipping time also decreased to four days compared to 18 days during the congest...
Trade and industry in Kochi Port, Kerala, have expressed concern at the strike by trailer lorry drivers and crew, who are demanding higher wages, reported The Hindu. An urgent meeting of the managing committee of the Cochin Customs House Agents' Association condemned the “indefinite strike” which had disrupted export-import business. The as...
Penang Port has set a target to handle two million containers annually in five years' time, reported Business Times. The port is banking on the US$102.29 million North Channel dredging scheme to attract larger vessels and mainliners to its North Butterworth Container Terminal (NBCT). Penang Port managing director and chief executive officer Ahmad I...
High Street chains face Christmas shortages of toys, clothing, electrical goods and furniture after the severe weather closed a number of the UK's largest ports. The snow has already hit sales on High Street, with both John Lewis and JJB Sports warning of a slowdown. Maureen Hinton, an analyst at Verdict Research, said that chains were "in danger of lo...
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