The Port of Hamburg posted a container throughput growth of 10.7 percent in the first nine months, handling 5.9 million TEUs. This reflects the resumption of the China and Asia services that the shipping companies had temporarily suspended during the financial markets and economic crisis, the port said in a statement. Added to this are numerous new ...
THE Port Chongqing, on the upper navigable reaches of the Yangtze, has experienced a meteoric rise in capacity rise to 1.7 million TEU in 2009 from 55,000 TEU in 2002, making it the busiest upstream harbour from Nanjing near Shanghai, reports Xinhua. Chongqing recently built up a number of 5,000-tonne berths in Cuntan and other port areas. Its throughpu...
GEORGIA Ports Authority's (GPA) has announced record highs in some commodity segments during October, a month that marked a 16.7 per cent year-on-year container volume increase through Savannah to 273,296 TEU. Overall, tonnage hit a monthly record of 2,347,260 tons, across all GPA ports, an increase of 9.8 per cent year on year. Container volumes for f...
THE Port of Long Beach posted a 33.5 per cent year-on-year import container volume increased in October while neighbouring Los Angeles port only increased 3.19 per cent during the same month year on year. Yet this indicated the peak season on the transpacific had some unexpected staying power, said Newark's Journal of Commerce. Long Beach container imp...
Monthly container traffic through California's Port of Los Angeles climbed slightly in October, compared to a year earlier, but the figures indicate the peak pre-holiday shipping season is on the wane. The number of containers shipped in and out of the Los Angeles port, the busiest in the US in terms of container traffic, was up 5.4 percent last month ...
DP World has sought compensation from the Port Trust for the delay occurred in berthing of the Chinese vessel which brought the Post Panamax cranes required for the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) at Vallarpadam, reported The Hindu. Though officials at the terminal operator have confirmed the issue of compensation, they declined to...
The Indonesian National Shipowners' Association (INSA) suggests five programmes to improve ports in Indonesia to bolster competitiveness and cut the balance of payment deficit of US$13 billion per annum, reported Bisnis Indonesia. INSA chairperson Johnson Sutjipto said many problems had to be addressed to bolster port competitiveness. According to ...
Shanghai: Port of Qingdao's container throughput for the year passed 10m teu in early November and the port now predicts its will reach 12m teu for the year, which would be a 20% year-on-year increase, reports Xinhua news agency. Qingdao is the seventh largest port in the world. It recorded total throughput of 300m tonnes last year - much of it oil and...
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