Dalian: China's Dalian Port has received its first very large crude carrier nearly two weeks after a pipeline blast that spilled oil into the sea and forced its only 300,000-tonne berth to shut, state media said on Thursday. The resumption of oil discharging from China-flagged tanker 'Yuanshanhu' started at midnight on Wednesday but it would be at a ...
Fuzhou New Port International Container Terminal completed throughput of 314,000 TEUs in the first half of 2010, up 41 percent year-on-year, a new record for Fuzhou, reported NewsTrak Daily. Export cargo surged 46 percent year-on-year during the period, higher than the average growth of Fujian's other ports. The depth of Fuzhou, its proximity and s...
DB SCHENKER Rail Polska is to invest EUR22.5 million (US$29.24 million) in the Baltic Sea Polish ports of Szxzecin and Swinousjscie by expanding facilities in the addition of new wharfs and cranes by 2018 with the ports' authority. DB Schenker Rail Polska CEO Hans-Georg Werner said the company would buy two gantry cranes in Szczecin and another in Swin...
DP WORLD has announced that volumes through its 50 terminals has increased 16 per cent in the first half of the year to 23.7 million TEU. The Dubai government-controlled company posted volume growth of seven per cent, to 13.2 million TEU, at consolidated terminals. "These first-half volumes, along with the continuation of cost management, will lead ...
Kochi Port has had an excellent first quarter with cargo throughput going up 23 per cent between April and June this year, Port Trust sources said. The change is a healthy one because Kochi Port is going through a cargo profile change, Port sources added as they pointed to the quantum jump in throughput of items such as liquid bulk cargo and constructio...
The authorities at Port Qasim rescued an inbound container vessel, which ran aground in its channel on Tuesday morning, according to Business Recorder. Nedlloyd Brake, carrying hundreds of Pakistan-bound containers, grounded at around 8am in the 45-km long navigational channel of Port Qasim at Bandal Island near buoy number 14. The sources said that...
Hong Kong-based operator Modern Terminals Ltd (MTL) is enjoying the results of its investment in Taicang International Gateway, a deep-water terminal, as manufacturers relocate from Shanghai to southern Jiangsu, where costs are much cheaper. The rapid development of Shanghai's financial and service industries has raised labour costs and rents in the ci...
KANSAS International Airport (KCI) cargo alone was up 5.7 per cent in June to 15 million pounds, but airmail fell, bringing the overall freight figure down 4.6 per cent year on year. The number of passengers flying was an average of 39,000 daily seats, four per cent down year on year, is forecast to increase over the summer months to five per cent in Au...
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