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...
GEORGIA Ports Authority's (GPA) executive director Curtis Foltz announced that the Port of Savannah experienced 25.3-per cent container growth in May and has recorded six consecutive months of double-digit growth. "May was the sixth busiest month ever recorded for container throughput and continued the string of double-digit growth experienced since la...
THE largest CMA CGM containership ever to dock at a US port, the 8,500-TEU CMA CGM Figaro, has called at Los Angeles on its Bohai Rim Service linking north China to the US west coast, reports American Shipper. "The Figaro and other large vessels in our fleet are critical strategic assets in the supply chains of our customers, particularly now as Asia-US...
SOUTH KOREA's Incheon port handled 168,443 TEU in June with volumes driven by the economic recovery, marking its highest monthly throughput for two months in a row. The June total is also 28.52 per cent higher than the amount handled during the same month last year. Within this total, import cargo accounted for 829,998 TEU imported and exports came...
Freight flows via Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk (Illyichevsk) (SCPI, Odessa region, Ukraine) in the first half of this year dropped, as compared with January-June in 2009, by 6.2%, to 7,762,000 tons. In June this year, transshipment volume reached 975,000 tons, down from June 2009 to 13.5%, the Port’s statement said. However, this Ju...
Terex Port Equipment has delivered the 100th Terex® reachstacker produced in its Italian Lentigione plant since the July 2009 acquisition by Terex of the Fantuzzi Group. “The delivery of the 100th reachstacker is an important event. Over the past months we have been working hard to bring production levels up to meet market demand, as well as m...
The UK’s PD Ports has announced that it will channel significant investment into the first phase of expansion plans at Teesport which will potentially involve some £29m (US$35.4m) in total. Work will shortly begin on the £15m first phase expansion of Teesport’s container terminal from its current 235,000 teu capacity to 450,000 t...
DP World Antwerp has commissioned its first rail mounted Liebherr portal mobile harbour crane (LPS 500). The portal, which provides significant space saving, particularly on narrow quays, has a rail span of 11 m, allowing road trucks and even two trains to pass next to each other beneath it. According to Liebherr, with a lift capacity of up to 104 tonne...
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