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Hong Kong: A fire broke out on the 5/F of the ATL Logistics Centre Hong Kong Limited, Berth 3, Kwai Chung Container Terminal, 8 Container Port Road South, Kwai Chung, at 3.35pm yesterday. The fire was upgraded to No.3 alarm at 4.07pm. The venue was until recently in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s largest warehouse, a multi-storey behe...
INDIA's Cochin Port Authority (CPA) plans to extend the concessions on vessel-related charges that were granted earlier to mainline ships. The extension coincides with a jump in container throughput in recent months, and will be implemented for an additional six month period, ending in March 2011. Introduced in 2006, the scheme offers a 50 per cent...
SOUTHEAST China's Fujian province has commenced building an inland port in Longyan city, reports Xinhua. The municipal government said they plan to construct a large complex logistics area with functions like bonded warehouse, distribution, export process, product gathering trade and commodity exhibition. The new inland port, with a three-phase pro...
JIAXING International Container Feeder Port, the first river container terminal in eastern China's Zhejiang province has started operation, Xinhua reports. The feeder terminal allows local shippers within 70 kilometres to go through customs procedures at a nearer place. It also offers waterway intermodal service to the port of Shanghai, reducing about ...
Authorities in central China's Hubei Province announced they would invest more than US$27 billion to expand throughput capacity of Wuhan New Port on the Yangtze River between 2011 and 2020, reported Xinhua. The move comes as Hubei seeks to explore the shipping potential of the Yangtze to make the port, which covers the cities of Wuhan, Huanggang and Ez...
A coalition of maritime industry groups, including Hong Kong shipowners and seafarers, is calling for the government to establish a policy bureau to strengthen Hong Kong's position as an international maritime centre. The call is among a package of nine proposals made by the alliance of four organisations to stave off growing competition from Singapore...
The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has allowed the new operator of North Harbour to modify its modernisation plan as long as it adheres to a strict implementation time-line for the project, according to Philippine News Agency. This development is in line with the request last September of Manila North Harbour Port Inc, the port's new operator, that a...
The spectre of another crippling strike at Port Metro Vancouver is being raised by angry container truckers, reported Vancouver Province. They claim that rates negotiated after a bitter, five-week strike in 2005 are being undercut. "We' re in bargaining right now with 12 different companies," said Gavin McGarrigle national representative for CAW, t...
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