Malaysian shipping lines are not happy by what it claims to be the discriminatory attitude shown by Johor Port, which favours foreign-owned shipping companies in the middle of worsening congestion at the port. Malaysia Shipowners' Association (Masa) chairman Nordin Mat Yusoff said the attitude by Johor Port to accord least priority to Malaysian-owned s...
The inordinate delay in completing the capital dredging work for the Vallarpadam ICTT project may lead to the postponement of the soft launch of the project's operations scheduled for later this month by the terminal operator DP World, reported The Hindu. Informed sources in the port said that the terminal operator had made it clear to the port that th...
Xiamen Port and Zhangzhou Port were integrated on August 31 and are being called Xiamen Port, reported China Daily. The Xiamen Port authority is now in charge of both ports. The new Xiamen Port will be an international shipping hub for container traffic and bulk cargo. Yu Weiguo, municipal party secretary of Xiamen indicated: "The integration of the...
CARGOTEC has won an order for 50 Kalmar Ottawa 4 x 2 terminal tractors from Idealease, a North American truck and equipment lease and rental services business. The units will be leased to a customer operating at the ports of Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo located on Mexico's Pacific Coast. Delivery of the new machines will begin in November 2010, a Car...
The Port of Felixstowe takes delivery of two of seven ship-to-shore cranes for its development of berths eight and nine that are scheduled to start operations in 2011. The first phase of the development will add a further 730m of deep-water quay at the UK's busiest container port. The new cranes are the largest of their type, and are designed to handle...
Ningbo Port plans to tighten its partnership with rival Shanghai after Ningbo Port's initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on September 14, reported the South China Morning Post. The two neighbouring ports in the Yangtze River Delta are the world's two largest ports by cargo tonnage. Ningbo Port has received approval from the Chin...
The volume of container cargo handled at South Korea's seaports rose sharply in August thanks to the worldwide economic recovery that fuelled trade, a government report showed, according to Yonhap News Agency. The volume of containers handled amounted to 1.69 million TEUs last month, up 21.8 percent from a year earlier, according to the report by the M...
In the Port of Le Havre, a new important step has been taken in the implementation of the port reform with the signature of all sales contracts for equipment concerning the container terminals. Grand Port Maritime du Havre has just signed the last two sales contracts for container terminals : - The first was signed on June 11th with the Sociét&...
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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