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THE Asciano Group registered a first quarter 2010-11 net loss before tax of A$948.9 million (US$926.4 million) on the back of a 1.3 per cent slide in container lifts compared with the same period last year. Unhappy shareholders delivered a "stinging rebuke" to the company over a A$900,000 bonus to be paid to the chief executive, reported the Sydney Mornin...
PAYROLL DATA published by Bacs Payment Schemes, an organisation which handles the clearing and settlement of automated payments, has revealed that the number of employers working in the UK's transport industry has declined in the wake of the global financial crisis. The UK's Transport Intelligence reported that in August 2007, some 650,205 transport, st...
As of 1 January 2011, the ports of Amsterdam, Moerdijk, Dordrecht and Rotterdam will be rewarding clean ocean-going vessels with discounts on their port dues. This involves vessels which score well on the Environmental Ship Index (ESI). This is a new international standard for ships’ emissions into the atmosphere. Ships which perform better than...
In a first for Sub-Saharan Africa ports, South African port operator Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has implemented the world class Refcon system at its Cape Town terminal to remotely carry out temperature checks on refrigerated shipping containers, known as reefers. Previously reefers were manually checked by operators at intervals of four hours. In ...
Brazil's Wilson Sons Limited subsidiary Tecon Rio Grande (TRG), has taken delivery of two ZPMC ship-to-shore (STS) quay cranes and four RTGs. According to Wilson Sons, the equipment, valued at US$20m and which was 85% financed through the Export-Import Bank of China, forms part of its ongoing commitment to increase capacity and improve efficiency across al...
The Port of Miami has announced the launch of the new Victory Bridge service linking North Europe to the US East Coast and Mexico. The service began on October 17, 2010 with a departure from Le Havre, France that is scheduled to arrive in Miami on November 3, 2010. The twice weekly service operated jointly by CMA CGM and CSAV will generate approximately 3...
Workers at France's Mediterranean oil port Fos-Lavera, the world's third largest oil terminal, on Friday ended a strike that had lasted 33 days, the port authority reported. Workers at the oil terminals have been striking to protest against a range of issues, including the government's pension reforms and changes to the way the port is run, reported Do...
THE Global Port Tracker, always something of a misnomer because it only covers US ports, is now joining forces with Bremen-based Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics to report on European ports with the monthly Global Port Tracker: North Europe Trade Outlook. According to Ben Hackett, of Hackett Associates, which puts out the monthly research rep...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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