SOUTHERN Hainan provincial ports recorded an inbound trade cargo volume of 3.27 million tonnes during the first three months of this year, up 12.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2010, Xinhua reports. In contrast to the robust increase in inbound cargo, the island province's outbound trade cargo volume plunged 34.4 per cent to only 246,600 tonne...
CONTAINER volume through the neighbouring ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach increased 6.3 per cent year on year in April, largely driven by a 14.6 per cent growth rate in Long Beach. Together, the ports lifted 1.14 million TEU in April and from the first of January, the ports moved 4.3 million TEU, with Los Angeles rising 8.5 per cent year on year and ...
GUANGDONG province's ports handled 280 million tonnes of cargo from January through March this year, up 5.5 per cent year on year, but the growth was 20.1 percentage points slower than in the same period in 2010, Xinhua reports. Guangdong, one of the most important cargo sources in China, only moved 3.6 per cent more containers year on year to 9.87 mill...
SHENZHEN's Da Chan Bay Terminal One situated in the western port area has announced that the South China East Coast Express service (SCE2) jointly operated by Hapag-Lloyd, HMM, NYK, OOCL and ZIM has started calling at the facility. This new service calls weekly the south China terminal on Fridays, Said Zim Asia Pacific president Danny Hoffmann: "We ar...
The port of Singapore handled just 2.8% more containers in the first months of the year according to preliminary estimates from the local port authority. Total throughput volumes were recorded at 2.45m teu in April, up from 2.32m teu in the same month of 2010, but down marginally from 2.5m teu in March 2011, according to data from the Maritime and Port Auth...
The Supreme Court has allowed Danish port operator APM Terminals, part of the A P Moller-Maersk Group, to participate in the bidding process for the US$1.5 billion container terminal project in India. The decks appear to have been finally cleared for Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) to resume the bidding process for the fourth container terminal project...
PaxOcean Engineering Zhoushan Co., Ltd. of Singapore, Singapore and The Levingston Corporation, Boerne, Texas, said today that they have signed a Letter of Intent to build a Levingston designed 415WC (World Class) with an option for one additional similar vessel for an undisclosed contract value. The announcement was made at the new Elevating Boats LLC's (...
Combined imports and exports at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the busiest U.S. container ports, rose 7.2 percent in April from a year earlier, led by a 7.8 percent gain in exports, the Journal of Commerce reported. Loaded import containers through Los Angeles rose 3.4 percent to 312,360 20-foot-equivalent units. Imports through Long Beach jumped 12 percent ...
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