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When plans were made a decade ago to double the capacity of Rotterdam port, container shipping was growing at 10 percent a year. Since then, a global recession has battered the shipping industry, and, while traffic is creeping back, shipping analysts don't expect growth to top six percent a year for the next decade. Yet Rotterdam's US$4.1 billion Maasvl...
Federal Maritime Administrator David Matsuda and public officials broke ground in Stockton on a project to launch an inland marine highway linking that city's port with those in West Sacramento and Oakland, reported The Sacremento Bee. In February, the US Department of Transportation announced it was awarding US$30 million in stimulus funds to a partners...
Following the Union government’s request, Bangladesh has agreed to grant access to its Chittagong and Mongla ports, according to Exim News Service. This will increase economic engagements and trade between Bangladesh and the entire Eastern and North-Eastern states in India. This was announced here by the Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Anand Sh...
An extraordinary cargo handling operation was held on 20th October of this year at the Przemyslowe Quay of the Port of Gdansk. On board of the 70-metre long and nearly 25-metre wide pontoon "VIIRU", which was built in 1993 by a shipyard in Singapore, three metal tanks were shipped in for the purposes of the Gdansk Phoshpatic Fertilizers Plant FOSFORY. Two o...
Key oil and container ports in Hong Kong and Southern China have resumed normal operations after the cities were spared by Typhoon Megi, reported Reuters. Hong Kong's main oil product terminals and the ports of Shenzhen and Zhuhai were closed last Thursday ahead of the typhoon, initially feared to be among the worst to threaten southern China in 50 yea...
Myanmar has added up to 16 jetties in Yangon Port and six jetties in Thilawa Port, which together handle 23.7 million tonnes of freight annually, reported Xinhua. The number of inland container yards went up to three from none in the past. The freight handling capacity of Yangon Port stood at 16.7 million tonnes in 2009-10, up from 3.29 million tonn...
The Port of Tacoma's container traffic trend continues downward even as other West Coast ports have seen their numbers begin to climb out of a recession-dug hole, reported The News Tribune. So far this year, containers account for 58 percent of all cargo handled by the port. In 2006, containers hit their peak at almost 65 percent. The port's conta...
SOUTH CAROLINA's State Ports Authority chief Jim Newsome has called the Panama Canal expansion a "three million container opportunity" for the Port of Charleston, reports the local daily, The Post and Courier. Speaking at the Chamber of Commerce Developers Council's growth forum, Mr Newsome discussed the likelihood of siphoning off container traffic f...
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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