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The first ground has been broken for the construction of a new head office and expanded heavy equipment support facility in Ontario, Canada for Top Lift Enterprises. The facility will cover 16,000 sq. ft.; 10,000 sq. ft. of which will be devoted to shop space and will include four drive-through service bays and warehousing space for OEM parts inventorie...
Work on the construction of the second lock in the Waaslandhaven (Waasland port) is scheduled to start next summer (2011) according to the Antwerp Port Authority, which last week formally started the contracting procedure for the project. The lock should be operational by 2016. One of the largest infrastructure projects in Flanders over the next few yea...
The Virginia Port Authority has proposed leasing the struggling Port of Richmond for US$1 a year for five years, with three possible five-year renewal periods. The amount, length and other terms of the proposed contract were spelled out in a two-page "non-binding letter of intent and preliminary terms" from the Virginia Port Authority that was released ...
Dubai: DP World signed an agreement Thursday with CN Rail [Canadian National Rail] to improve competitiveness and security at DP World Vancouver with the goal of promoting the terminal as "a secure point of entry to North America." The service-level agreement seeks to avoid unnecessary regulation or government intervention. Given the sensitivity of DP W...
Venture capitalists have money available for technology that will enable the maritime industry to grow in an environmentally-responsible manner, but like any investors they base their decisions on the commercial viability of the products and services. "Silicon Valley has made a big commitment to green technology and sustainability," said Wayne Larocque,...
The European Sea Ports Organisation finalised yesterday its input for the Commission’s consultation on the revision of the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T). The future TEN-T guidelines are expected to put seaports and their hinterland connections centre-stage together with other nodal points such as inland ports and airports. “T...
Freight traffic passing through the Big Port of St. Petersburg in January-August 2010 rose by 14% compared with the same period in 2009, to 36 million 945.3 thousand tons, the Port Authority statistics said. Container throughput during the reporting period amounted to 1,205,884 TEUs. The volume of bulk cargo fell 1.8%, to 10,670,300 tons. The Port o...
The Japanese government is playing an increasingly important role in transport sector development in Africa. Following recent agreements to fund port and railway feasibility studies in Mozambique, it hopes to help develop the new port of Lamu in Kenya and has announced that it is prepared to fund the expansion of the port of Namibe in the south of Angola. ...
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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