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The port of Shanghai's total container throughput in the first eight months of 2010 stood at more than 19 million containers, making it the largest container port in the world. Shanghai's container throughput in August reached 2.6 million TEUs, up nearly 21 percent compared to the same period last year, and setting a new monthly record, China Daily re...
DAVAO Integrated Ports and Stevedoring Services Corp. (DIPSSCOR), a unit of port operator Manila-based International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI), recently took over operations of a new reefer facility at the Sasa Wharf, International Port of Davao in Mindanao in southern Philippines. The reefer facility, installed by the Davao port managemen...
BANGLADESH's parliamentary standing committee on public undertakings has given a seven-day ultimatum to the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) to improve the efficiency of its container handling service. The parliamentary body expressed dissatisfaction over the backlog of container deliveries at the port and asked the authorities to complete the work to l...
ARGENTINE shipping company Maruba's new line to the west coast of South America has successfully started its maiden voyage to eastern China's Port of Taicang, 60 miles upstream from Shanghai. This is Taicang's second ocean shipping line after The Container Shipping, a start-up launched its LA shuttle from the port in April, said Xinhua. The new s...
DP World is now the world's third-largest port operator, according to a report from Drewry Shipping Consultants. Last year, it handled 31.5m teu, passing APM Terminals whose throughput dropped to 31.1m teu. By opening more terminals and registering a smaller decline than its rivals, DP World leapfrogged into third place. It currently has 50 ope...
Government plans to move ports from the inner parts of Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City to outlying areas have stalled because of delays in infrastructure construction at the proposed new sites as well as a lack of funds, port management officials have said. The city planned to move four ports: Sai Gon, Sai Gon New, Vegetable Terminal and Tan Thuan Dong, alt...
Eight of the world's top nine ports are, according to the new Top 50 World Container Ports ranking, in Asia, with the Port of Singapore keeping its top spot despite falling volumes during the downturn. Only two ports among the world's 15 largest showed any growth during the downturn, and both of these ports, No. 6 Guangzho and No. 11 Tianjin, were in ...
Development of the Port of Tauranga and Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) as the sole 7000-teu vessel-capable ports in New Zealand could deliver a NZ$338m (US$244m) per year benefit to the country’s economy from 2015-2016. Contrastingly, The Question of Bigger Ships: Securing New Zealand’s International Supply Chain report prepared by the...
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