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PORT businesses based in Hamburg and the surrounding region will be promoting their services at the China International Logistics and Transportation Fair 2010 to be held in Shenzhen this week from October 15 to 17. At the 112-square metre joint exhibition stand organised by Port of Hamburg Marketing, Chinese shippers involved in importing and exporting ...
GOVERNMENT approval has been won for the development of a INR36.8 trillion container (US$833.1 million) terminal at Chennai that will be able to handle four million TEU a year and reduce transhipment from neighbouring foreign ports, notably the deep water ports of Colombo and Singapore. The terminal will be developed on a design, build, finance, operate...
CONTINGENTS of the Bangladeshi Army have been called in to deal with striking dockers who rampaged through the Port of Chittagong attacking guards and vehicles, injuring 20 people, reported New York-based RTT News. Police fired teargas cannisters and rubber bullets to disperse angry dockers, protesting against the Bangladeshi government's decision to h...
FRANCE remained in the throes of transport disruptions and union go-slows in a continuation of what unions call an "open-ended strike" after the fourth national walkout in five weeks. Some 1.2 million workers participated in marches across the county - the biggest number so far - in protest against the conservative Sarkozy government's austerity progra...
Freight traffic via Port of Tallinn (Estonia) in January-September 2010 amounted to 27 million 266.1 thousand tons, or 16% up from the same period a year earlier. The port's container throughput increased by 15.3%, to 91,114 TEUs, the Port Authority press release said. In nine recent months the port has seen 18,963,400 tons of liquid bulk cargo, a 8.9-...
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has approved the proposal for construction of a mega container terminal at Chennai Port involving an investment of US$828.97 million, reported The Hindu. The new terminal will change the face of the port. The earlier proposal of “dirty’’ cargo (coal and minerals) being shifted to the Ennore port ...
The Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal of the Kochi Port is experiencing heavy shortage of reefer plug points, which is affecting the movement of reefer containers meant for export from seafood factories to the terminal, reported The Hindu. Sources in the seafood industry said that shippers are forced to hold reefer containers in their factories, thereby, ...
Bangladesh has sought US$1.2 billion in loans from China to help finance the planned deep-sea port at Sonadia, reported The Financial Express (Bangladesh). China's recent interest in financing Asian ports has led the government to explore the Chinese involvement as a co-financier in the multi-billion dollar project, an official of the Shipping Ministry...
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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