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Kolkata: Two containerships collided in the Hooghly River in Kolkata port on Tuesday. The Tiger Spring and the Green Valley collided after the steering gear reportedly failed on one of the vessels. Both ships were damaged but there were no injuries to their crew. Kolkata Port Trust said it was investigating the cause of the incident. (Source:www.seatrade-a...
Guangxi, an autonomous region in south western China, forecasts that its Qinzhou port area's annual throughput capacity will rise to 100 million tonnes by 2013. In the coming three years, Guangxi's Beibu Gulf Port will complete eight 100,000-tonne container berths, two 300,000-tonne and two 100,000-tonne crude oil berths, two 200,000-tonne and nine 15...
CHINA's port operators claim that the situation of overcapacity, estimated to be up to 40 per cent more than current demand by China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI)'s chief economist, was improving. A report by London's Containerisation International cited CMHI's Su Xingang as saying at the World Shipping Summit in Guangzhou that it could ta...
SHANGHAI Port handled about 24 million TEU from January to October, surpassing Singapore to be the largest port in the world for three consecutive months in a raw, according to the Statistical Bureau of Shanghai. Container throughput in Shanghai Port stood at more than 2.3 million TEU in October, up eight per cent year on year, reported the People's Da...
New regulations are expected to ease landside freight delays at Port Botany's container terminals, reported The Southern Courier. NSW Ports and Waterways Minister Eric Roozendaal said he signed off on the Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy regulations last week because he understood the urgency to implement the procedure. "The new regulation...
A Chinese investor has agreed to finance construction of a port in Madura, East Java, in cooperation with the state port operator Pelindo III, a cabinet minister said, according to Antara news agency. Transport Minister Freddy Numberi said China's state company China Harbour Engineering and PT Pelindo III will build the container terminal. The Soca...
Singapore: APM Terminals is eyeing terminal joint ventures on the Yangtze River. As it looks to continue growing in Asia APM Terminals is eyeing more secondary ports and inland connections. “We are looking at the Yangtze river, there is big growth in that market so we are considering ports in the Yangtze river,” Martin Gaard Christiansen, ceo As...
A US FEDERAL judge has quashed a plea from greens, including the Delaware's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, to halt dredging the Delaware River to expand ship access to the Port of Philadelphia. Much of Judge Sue Robinson's ruling dealt with whether dredging was "maint...
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