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THE Union Pacific Railroad has been celebrating the opening of its US$370 million, 785-acre Joliet Intermodal Terminal that will raise the capacity of its international and domestic container service in the Chicago area. The Joliet Intermodal Terminal is designed to handle an annual capacity of 500,000 over-the-road trailers or ocean-going containers, m...
AN independent admiralty lawyer says the United States should think about blockading Somali ports to stop piracy in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean, reports American Shipper. Lawyer Mark Tempest told a piracy conference of the US Naval Institute in Annapolis, Maryland, that the UN ought to establish a "protectorate of Somali waters where we'd begin t...
GERMANY's Hamburg Sud, and its Brazilian Alianca container line, have announced their decision to use low-sulphur marine gas oil with a sulphur content of 0.5 per cent, instead of traditional heavy fuel oil while at the berth in Hong Kong from January for all of 2011. "Container shipping is the most environmentally friendly mode of transport worldwide,...
DUBAI marine terminal operator DP World has announced it has handled 13 million TEU at its 50 terminals worldwide in the third quarter, an increase of 14 per cent year on year, and a 15 per cent year-on-year rise for the first nine months of 2010 to 36.7 million TEU. "Container volumes have remained strong during the third quarter of the year, back in l...
At their monthly meeting Thursday, the commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey authorized expenditure of $3 million for planning and preliminary design work for the development of an intermodal container transfer facility at the Greenville Yard-Port Authority Marine Terminal in Jersey City. The port authority plans to develo...
Goods throughput in the port of Rotterdam increased over the first nine months of 2010 by 13.4% to 321 million tonnes. Virtually all categories of goods showed a positive trend: iron ore and scrap (+112%), coal (+2%), other dry bulk (+31%), crude oil (+3%), mineral oil products (+5%), other liquid bulk (+9%), containers (+15%), roll on/roll off (+6%), other...
The paralyzing strike at France's Mediterranean oil ports of Fos-Lavera and Marseilles continued for a 25th consecutive day Thursday, with port authorities reporting that 69 vessels carrying petroleum-related cargoes were offshore waiting to unload. That overall total was unchanged from Wednesday but up from earlier in the week. Workers at the ports' ...
Weekly service linking St. Petersburg with the English port of Hull is launched from October 28, 2010, the Sea Port of St. Petersburg Group’s press office reported on Friday. This information was also confirmed by the President and CEO of Finnlines Uwe Bakosch during his visit to St. Petersburg. Three Birka-class ferries are reported to be opera...
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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