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THE cargo volume moved by the airport's No 1 ground handler, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl), grew 38.4 per cent year on year in the first six months to 1,389,059 tons, the company announced. Second quarter results showed a 39.1 per cent year-on-year increase to 752,316 tons, and the monthly June figure shows a 30.5 per cent increase to 2...
PD PORTS has announced that it will channel investment into the first phase of a container terminal expansion at Yorkshire-Durham's Teesport, which will involve an investment of up to GBP29 million (US$44 million). "We will shortly commence work on the expansion of our container handling facilities at Teesport, a long-term investment in our unitised bu...
PSA INTERNATIONAL has acquired Sical Logistics' 27 per cent stake in the Chennai International Terminal (CIT) for an undetermined amount, after Sical decided to exit from the joint venture. The first phase of CIT was launched in the middle of last year, but has been under-utilised since its opening. It is Chennai's second container terminal with an an...
TALKS have resumed between striking clerks and shipping companies at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, but employers say it's slow going because the union wants management to hire unneeded staff, reports The Associated Press. "The main issue facing our members is job security," said John Fageaux, president of the International Longshore and Ware...
UAE-based port operator, Gulftainer, recently registered a 23.75 percent growth in traffic at its Sharjah facilities as compared to the corresponding period in 2009, reporting that it handled 1.25 million TEUs containers from January to May this year. Gulftainer, which climbed from the 50th to the 39th position on Dynaliners list of top world terminals ...
Top port executives signed documents earlier in the week that finalised a 20-year lease of APM Terminals' state-of-the art container facility in Portsmouth to the Virginia Port Authority (VPA), the Virginian-Pilot reported. "The agreement has been signed and executed, so we're done," said Jerry Bridges, the Port Authority's executive director. Th...
Clerical workers went on strike at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports on Thursday to press their demand for job security, Xinhua reported. Organisers said they expected the strike to deal a blow to the nation's busiest port complex as all critical paperwork came to stop. Containers not being unloaded could mean millions of lost dollars a day, and...
The NC State Ports Authority has spent about US$10.2 million planning a proposed megaport in Brunswick County, but after a tumultuous few days, the agency is "re-evaluating where we are" with the project, McClatchy-Tribune Regional News reported. Exactly what that means is unclear, but the words came in response to questions about the project's future,...
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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