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PORT Manatee, on Tampa Bay, is one of three Florida ports to receive a federal construction grant of US$9 million from the US Department of Transportation to build a 32-acre intermodal container yard. The grant falls short of the port's request for $25.7 million. The projects include the extension of Berth 12 for the container yard and the purchase of tw...
SHIPPING AUSTRALIA and Westgate Ports differ on how the Port of Melbourne will handle the expected doubling of containers to 4.4 million by 2020. In submissions to Port of Melbourne Corporation, Shipping Australia called for the development of Webb Dock East as a container terminal by 2014. But Westgate wants Swanson, Victoria and Appleton Docks (SAVD) ...
The port of Los Angeles has appointed Christopher Cannon as its new director of environmental management. Cannon has worked at the port for several years as a consultant, most recently helping to manage the implementation and daily operation of the highly successful Clean Truck Programme. Cannon replaces Ralph Appy, who retired earlier this year. &ldquo...
Dubai government-controlled DP World has US$3 billion available to fund its expansion plans but does not rule out going to the market in the future, its chief executive told Al Arabiya news channel. Mohammed Sharaf said the company did not need additional liquidity until the end of 2012 but was studying ways to finance future expansion plans. ''We hav...
KENYAN authorities have released hundreds of containers rice from Pakistan held at its port, after meeting with Pakistani rice exporters. Last month, more than 800 containers of Pakistani rice, worth US$8 million, were seized by customs, who refused to release the cargo until the lab tests were completed to establish grading, reported the Pakistan Observe...
Japan exports up 14pc in September, but pace slows JAPAN's exports rose 14.4 per cent in September year on year, but the pace of growth is slowing because of strong yen and softening demand from other Asian countries, said Japanese Ministry of Finance, reported Xinhua. Although the September trade value totalled JPY5.8 trillion (US$71.8 billion) and ma...
THE three major ports of Qingdao, Rizhao and Yantai in eastern Shandong province have all recorded growth in throughput from January to September, Xinhua reports. Port of Qingdao's cargo tonnage totalled to 259 million tonnes, up 9.7 per cent. The Port of Rizhao's throughput increased 23 per cent to 170 million tonnes and the Port of Yantai's throughpu...
DONGGANG Container Terminal, jointly invested by Shanghai International Port Group and government of Chongqing's Nanan District, is expected to be up and running by the end of this year, Xinhua reports. The two have spent CNY2.4 billion (US$360.5 million) on the first phase of the terminal, which will have four 3,000-tonne multi-use berths and one ro-ro ...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi
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