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SINGAPORE's National Environment Agency (NEA) is conducting a study on the impact of emissions from ships that navigate its waters. Up to 1,000 ships call at Singapore's ports at any one time, but it is not known exactly how much pollution they contribute, according to Joseph Hui, director general of the environmental protection division of the NEA, w...
THE new GBP30 million (US$48.4 million) container terminal at the Port of Great Yarmouth that was originally scheduled to open in the first quarter of this year with an annual box handling capacity of 70,000 TEU and 200 metres of quay is abandoning the container sector before it even opens. The terminal is 60 per cent-owned by Singapore's PSA Internati...
CHITTAGONG PORT has reduced vessel turnaround times to three days following the dispatch of army contingent to the port to enhance security, according to the Chittagong Port Authority secretary. Port secretary Syed Farhad Uddin Ahmed said that out of the habours's 16 berths, half will be dedicated to general cargo and the other half to containers, acco...
FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 1.9 million TEU in October, an increase of 4.5 per cent over the 1.8 million TEU in October of last year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported a 3.4 per cent increase in container movement in October, having handled 2.4 million TEU compared to 2.3 million TEU in October of l...
State-backed Abu Dhabi Ports Co (ADPC) will invest US$7.2 billion in the first phase of an industrial zone and will offer 100 percent foreign ownership to companies that contribute to the emirate's GDP, government officials said. The Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad), located between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, also includes a sea port that would be o...
Cai Lan International Container Terminal (CICT) in Vietnam has entered into loan agreements worth US$100 million with an international lending consortium, reported Thai News Service. The financing will allow CICT to immediately move forward on the construction of its new state-of-the-art deep-water container facility in the northern province of Quang Ni...
Bangladesh will have to develop a number of container depots to get the benefits of the connectivity among member countries covered by Asian highway and trans-Asian railway,reported The Financial Express (Bangladesh). The country has only one standard container depot at Kamalapur Railway Station. The Asian Highway has been planned to have 141,000 km...
The surge in intra-Asia trade this year has given impetus to Asian ports to expand terminals and improve infrastructure to cope with the cargo flows, Associate Editor Ken Gangwani reports from Shenzhen Massive terminal expansion and dredging is underway at major ports in the Asian region as intra-Asia trade explodes, racking up growth of 17 percent in the f...
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