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Cargo traffic at the Port of Xiamen is expected to hit 200 million tons by 2015, including about 10 million TEUs (1 TEU = approx. 20ft), China Daily reports. The port is the first one in the West Taiwan Straits Economic Zone to register an annual cargo volume in excess of 100 million tons. Last year, the port ranked seventh nationwide and 18th worldwide in ...
The Port of Ferrol has confirmed that it has received a single proposal for the tender of its new container terminal, which this publication has discovered was submitted by the Portuguese operator TCL- Terminal de Contentores de Leixoes SA, through its subsidiary ‘Container Terminal Ferrol SL’. A public opening of the tender will take place t...
Israel's two main ports of Haifa and Ashdod handled 601,000 TEU during the first quarter, with the two port company's each handling about half the total volume of containers. The figures produced by Israel's Shipping and Ports Authority (S&PA) and the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety show that in the first three months of 2011, the two ports ...
The number of services connecting Port of Felixstowe with the all-important Asian market has been increased with MSC’s Lion Service commencing calls at the Suffolk port, providing one of the fastest available eastbound connections for UK exporters. The service commenced with a call from the MSC Bruxelles, but from July 2011, the 9,200 TEU class ves...
Maersk Line and Safmarine have extended their Far East-West Africa FEW2 loop to China and Korea and the following ports of calls are added: Xiamen, Fuzhou, Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo and Nansha. The upgraded loops will be served by Maersk's new WAF-max ship 4,496-TEU vessel which replaces the 3,500-TEU one. The first sailing will sail from Busan on May ...
WHILE yet to be compiled April numbers for Port of Houston "look very strong", performance was up 16 per cent year on year in March with a quarterly increase of six per cent, though no total volumes were provided by the port authority. "Container volumes for April also look very strong through the first three weeks of this month," said Port of Houston Au...
NEW ORLEANS port officials were hopeful that shipping on the lower Mississippi wouldn't be hindered by Mississippi flooding now that spillways have been opened to reduce the flow of water past Baton Rouge and New Orleans, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce. The US Army Corps of Engineers began opening the Morganza floodway above Baton Rouge on Saturda...
FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 2.02 million TEU in April, an increase of 3.6 per cent against the two million TEU handled in April of last year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported a 5.7 per cent increase in container movement in April, having handled 2.5 million TEU compared to 2.4 million TEU in April o...
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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