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India is planning to build a transhipment port at South Bay on Great Nicobar island, a development that could be of both commercial and strategic significance to Southeast Asia as well as rival ports in Sri Lanka, reported The Straits Times. "The idea is to create a hub for shipping companies with spokes radiating to the eastern seaboard of India, Bangl...
CONCERNS have been raised that the US$2.4 billion Alameda Corridor that allows freight trains to travel to and from the Los Angeles and Long Beach docks may become a financial burden for the ports. When the corridor opened it was intended to pay for itself through user fees on each shipping container moved. However, with port cargo down sharply from the...
THE Port of Felixstowe in East Anglia, owned by Hong Kong's Hutchison Port Holdings, has taken delivery of two giant Shanghai ship-to-shore cranes - the biggest gantries in the world. The ZPMC cranes are to be deployed at its Felixstowe South development's first phase, to be known as Berths 8 and 9, which will add 730 metres of deepwater quay when com...
US IMPORT volumes at America's big container ports is expected to increase 16 per cent in September year on year, but decline after that, according to the Port Tracker from the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. While October is usually the peak month, July's figures appear to stand as the best of the year, said the report. "The shift ...
Container volume through Hong Kong rose 9.7 percent in July after growing by double digits in each of the year’s first six months, the Hong Kong Port Development Council reported. Despite the slower growth rate, July’s estimated 2.056 million 20-foot equivalent units still represented Hong Kong’s busiest month this year. July was the f...
The Port of Le Havre has received signatures on all sales contracts concerning equipment usage at container terminals, an important step in implementing its port reform package. Grand Port Maritime du Havre signed the last two sales contracts for container terminals, one with the Societe d'Equipement du Terminal de Normandie (SETN), the third party inv...
Freight turnover of SE Odessa Commercial Sea Port (OCSP, Ukraine) fell 9.6% from the same period a year earlier, to 16,662.200 tons, the OCSP’s press release said. The eight-month handled volume includes 9,017,800 tons of dry cargo (a 16.2pct drop from Jan-Aug, 2009) and 7,644.400 tons of liquid bulk cargo (-0.28%). In the reporting period, tr...
Several foreign container shipping lines are stepping up their coverage of ports in the Indian subcontinent, reported the Hindu. Hong Kong-based CSAV Norasia, a subsidiary of Compania Sud Ameriacna de Vapores, Latin America's largest shipping line with headquarters in Chile, will shortly start a direct container service between the subcontinent, the Fa...
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