Johor Port has been urged to deal with the long-standing predicament of berthing delays at its terminal by enhancing berth capacity and ensuring a level playing field for all vessels, reported Business Times. It is learnt that Johor Port's terminal has faced this problem for more than 10 years. The issue has become more serious this year as hundred...
Shanghai Port remained in front of Singapore in total throughput in the first nine months of this year after reporting a 14.3 percent increase in September volumes. As the shipping gateway to the Yangtze River Delta, the port benefits from the export-orientated industries clustered among the nearby provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, reported China Kno...
Singapore: IMC Group has signed several agreements with its Chinese partners to develop a bulk terminal, a specially designed cargo delivery system and an inner river berth with stockpile facility. IMC Industrial Port Development & Management Pte Ltd has entered into a joint venture with Jiangsu Xinsugang Investment & Development Co Ltd and Jian...
THE Hong Kong Liner Shipping Association (HKLSA) has 13 members signed up to the Fair Winds Charter, an agreement to use low-sulphur fuel in Hong Kong harbour, which now includes APL, Evergreen, CMA CGM, Hamburg Sud, Alianca, Hapag-Lloyd, Hanjin, Hyundai, Maersk, MOL, NYK Line, OOCL, and Yang Ming. HKLSA says the low-sulphur fuel is "very expensive" and...
The Port of Los Angeles has been awarded $16 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s national infrastructure grant program known as TIGERII to help construct an intermodal rail yard. The West Basin rail yard will provide a rail car staging and storage area for the nearby on-dock rail yards at the China Shipping/West Basin container te...
China's major port of Shenzhen was shut down on Thursday ahead of Typhoon Megi, which is expected to make landfall this weekend east of Hong Kong, a shipping agent said. "Yes, Shenzhen port is shut down now," said an agent with shipping and logistics firm GAC in Shenzhen. (Source:www.cnbc.com)
Seven of the 42 capital project funding requests selected for awards under the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant programme, went to America's ports, totalling US$94.84 million, or about 17 percent of the total $556.57 million, according to PRNewswire. "US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has indicated...
SOUTH CAROLINA's Port of Charleston posted its best quarter for container shipments since 2008 from July to September totalling 352,295-TEU, besting its last quarter and ahead of its five per cent forecast. Two new Asia shipping services began serving Charleston earlier this year, and a number of specific cargo development initiatives are paying divide...
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