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The Indian Union Shipping Ministry has announced a clutch of port-cum-rail connectivity projects which aim to address the problem of draft being faced by the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), the Hindu reported. The projects, to be implemented mostly in the public-private partnership (PPP) mode, are estimated to cost around US$382.4 million with some component...
In the first half 2010 cargo throughput at Rizhao Port, Shandong Province, China amounted to 111.73 million tonnes up 25.1 percent year on year, with container throughput at 492,000 TEUs, up 16.9 percent, NewsTrak Daily reported. Despite the frequent bad weather in the period, which affected 9,000 vessel-hours of loading and uploading, the port set over...
THE Canadian Pacific Railway has signed agreements with three container terminals at Port Metro Vancouver in a bid to raise productivity and performance and attract more business as competition mounts from rival US ports, reports London's Containerisation International. The agreements with TSI Terminal Systems, a subsidiary of Global Terminals, and wit...
APL, NYK Line, Hyundai Merchant Marine and Wan Hai Lines have levied a US$150 per TEU and $300 per FEU all inbound containers shipped through Jawaharlal Nehru port near Mumbai as a backlog builds in the face of the port's inability to cope with rising volume. The shipping lines, in notices to the trade, have said they have imposed surcharges to recover...
The Canadian ports of North Sydney, Port aux Basques and Argentia that serve Newfoundland, Labrador and Nova Scotia will receive nearly $84 million over five years to upgrade its terminals and port infrastructure. The money is part of Canada's $521 million investment in port and ferry operator Marine Atlantic Inc. (MAI) to renew its fleet and shore fac...
Slovenian port operator Luka Koper and its Italian counterparts in Ravenna, Trieste and Venice are mounting a joint promotional push in the Far East to raise awareness of the North Adriatic shipping route as an alternative to congested European harbours further afield, SeeNews Slovenia reported. In June, top officials from the North Adriatic Port Associ...
UAE-based port operator, Gulftainer, has reported that its terminals in Sharjah (SCT) and Khorfakkan (KCT) are continuing to perform well following increases in volume in 2009, despite the global economic downturn. “Sharjah is already a major centre for trade to and from Africa, and this additional service through the SCT gateway provides another ...
Capacity is set to expand at Saudi's flagship container facility, Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT), the newest container facility at Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP), with the arrival of yet another batch of the industry's most advanced ship-to-shore container cranes and advanced tandem lift gantry cranes (RTGs), Middle East Company News reported. Red Sea Gat...
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