DP WORLD LTD is developing a new container terminal at the Port of Sokhna in Egypt that will double the capacity of its existing facility in four years. "The new terminal at Sokhna port, which is located at the southern end of the Suez Canal, will have a quay length of 1,300 metres and a capacity of 1.75 million TEU, more than doubling DP World Sokhna'...
THE Port of Savannah has posted its highest ever first quarter year-on-year container growth of 20.1 per cent to 742,637 TEU for the three months ending September 30 compared to the previous year's 618,256 TEU, according to Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) executive director Curtis Foltz. Savannah surpassed its pre-recession TEU record quarterly volume du...
THE ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continued to show a year-on-year September volume increases, but container throughput growth has slowed since August, tonnage statistics show. The Port of Los Angeles handled 711,613 TEU, 22 per cent more than a year earlier. "Overall it's been a very strong year, better than we forecast, but not completely unexp...
FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 1.9 million TEU in September, an increase of 4.9 per cent over the 1.8 million TEU in September of last year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported a 4.1 per cent increase in container movement in September, having handled 2.2 million TEU compared to 2.1 million TEU in Septem...
Kunming: Myanmar has planned to construct a railroad that will link a deep-sea port, Kyaukphyu, in western Rakhine state with Kunming, southwest of China, the local Weekly Eleven News reported Saturday. The Kyaukphyu-Kunming railroad, which is part of the Kyaukphyu- Ruili platform project and national railroad network, is targeted to be finished in 2015...
Kuala Lumpur: Westports' container volume, which grew from 1.2m teu in the first quarter to 1.4m teu in second quarter, has achieved a further four per cent growth in the third quarter to 1.5m teu. "From January to September, we have done 4.1m teu and therefore we are on track to achieve 5.5m teu for the full year," its ceo, Ruben Emir Gnanalingam said...
THE Port of Seattle has announced that the US Department of Commerce has approved its request to reorganise its Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) under the new Alternative Site Framework (ASF) programme, requiring less hassle and paperwork. FTZs are a duty-free, quota-free, secured area in a designated customs "port of entry," considered outside US Customs terri...
DUBAI customs has launched a container scanning system at the Jebel Ali Port using the IP6500 system that uses radioactive detection on trucks and containers to scan every 24 seconds. The addition of four extra radioactive systems, able to scan 150 trucks per hour while moving eight to 15 kilometres an hour, will handle intensive truck traffic into its ...
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