FLORIDA's Port of Jacksonville has set its sights on becoming the state's leading port, toppling Miami as top dog as plans are carried out to raise container volume 25 per cent by 2012. Raul Alfonso, the Jacksonville Port Authority's senior director of trade, development and marketing, said more customers will move cargo through Jacksonville instead ...
VISAKHAPATNAM's Visakha Container Terminal Private Ltd (VCTPL), half way up India's east coast, has two ordered rail mounted quay cranes for INR1.2 billion (25.5 million) from Finland's Kone Cranes as part of its Phase II expansion. The terminal also signed another agreement earlier with Kone for the supply of four rubber tyre gantry cranes (RTGS), r...
XIAN has established a 44.6-square kilometre international trade and logistics park to develop as a logistics hub for trades to northwestern China, Middle East and Europe, reported Xinhua. The new trade and logistics park is five kilometres away from the new Xian administrative district, equipped with a new CNY680 million (US$100 million) intermodal rai...
GUIZHOU, a poorer province in south west China, recently signed an agreement with Guangdong, the richest province in the southern region, to build a dry port in Guizhou, reported Xinhua. Seventy per cent of Guizhou's traded products are imported from checkpoints at Guangdong. Thus, the Guangdong government has agreed to collaborate with Guizhou to set ...
The US Port of Tacoma has partnered with Port of Seattle and Canada’s Port Metro Vancouver to reduce seaport-related air emissions in the region. Each of the ports, along with their customers and tenants, continues to work collaboratively with air and environmental regulatory agencies to reduce emissions. These include such initiatives as using ul...
Maersk Line on Friday said it resumed bookings of all cargo for direct loading via the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), India's busiest container gateway. The Danish carrier was forced to temporarily suspend export bookings for nearly three weeks when operations at Nehru came to a virtual standstill following the MSC Chitra-Khalijia-3 collision ...
Today marks a new container handling record for Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg - over the past 40 years, 33,333,333 containers have been handled by the terminal. The last container comes from the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) and will be loaded today onto the container ship Al Safat, which is employed on the UASC AEC2 service between Asia, Eu...
Three company consortia are competing for the breakwater and dredging facility construction projects worth US$110.98 million at Tanjung Priok port, according to Bisnis Indonesia. Suwandi Saputro, director of port and dredging at the Ministry of Transportation revealed each consortium consisted of Indonesian and Japanese companies. The consortia are ...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi