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CMA CGM will enlarge the capacity of three ships on order from 13,800 20-foot equivalent units to 16,000 TEUs, the company said, the Journal of Commerce reported. The carrier also might order vessels up to 18,000 TEUs, said Jacques Saade, the French ocean carrier’s chief executive. Saade’s remarks, made during a naming ceremony Tuesday for C...
Pakistani officials have announced that China will take control of operations at the Port of Gwadar in the western region of the country not far from the Iranian border, to build a naval base, Exim News Service reports. While China constructed the Gwadar port, it is currently operated by PSA International, a Singaporean state-controlled company, which has...
DCT Gdansk and Maersk Line have made a major step forward for the marine industry in Poland with the first regular E class vessels call to the Baltic Sea. In January 2010, Maersk and DCT started a revolution in the Baltic Sea by establishing a regular connection between the Far East and Gdansk served by 8,000 TEU vessels. With the upgrade to 15,500 TEU vess...
On May 18th, a large Malta-flagged container ship, CMA CGM Libra, got stranded in the Xiamen sea area. It’s the first time that a large ship has run aground at Xiamen Port. The Xiamen government paid close attention to the rescue work for the large ship, reports Xiamen Daily. The large container ship with over 7,000 tons of fuel won’t pose a t...
ROTTERDAM port authorities have announced that the first 40 metres of the new block dam that will protect its Maasvlakte 2 port expansion project from the onslaught of the waves is now in place. This comes after a special crane, the Blockbuster, started work on this breakwater at the beginning of the month, which will be built in the sea 50 metres off the...
China's Jinhai Heavy Industry has won an order for a one plus one kamsarmax. Singapore's Wilmar International booked the 81,500dwt ships for delivery by the end of 2012, Seatrade Asia online reports. Jinhai has been one of the few successful Chinese yards this year, taking orders for VLCCs a month ago to go alongside its increasingly popular 229 m long ka...
BP says loading times at its Port Hedland fuel terminal in Western Australia have been cut by 40 per cent, AAP reports. A new higher volume loading gantry has been successfully commissioned and is now fully operational, complementing upgrades to electrical systems, higher capacity pumps and loading infrastructure. BP Australasia president Paul Waterman ...
Allcargo Global Logistics is planning to build a container freight station at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) by the first quarter of 2012 and is looking at acquisitions in India and overseas, Economic Times reports. "The new container freight station at JNPT is expected to be operational by the first quarter of 2012. We are also expanding our warehous...
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