Plans for a deepwater container terminal in Jasper County remain on schedule for a projected 2025 opening, the McClathy-Tribune Regional News reported. "I think we can make 2025, but everything has to fall into place," said David Sanborn of the California-based design engineering firm Moffatt and Nichol. The East Coast's newest container port, to b...
The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) is providing more space at its main container terminal for freight to ease congestion, according to SLPA managing director Nihal Keppetipola, Lanka Business Online reported. Container volumes at Colombo port were now growing at 25 percent compared with last year when volumes fell owing to recession. "We're also ...
THE Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has been awarded a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant worth US$2.72 million as part of the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Programme. The grant will be used to replace the GPA's equipment with higher tier engines that reduce air emissions. GPA's...
THE Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) in India has cleared an upfront tariff of INR2.25 (US$0.05) per gross registered tonnage for an hour as the berth hire charge for the proposed four million TEU Mega Container Terminal at Chennai Port. The tariff is higher than the present charge of INR2.03 at DP World Chennai, however, it was based on the vari...
The development of a second container port to service Victoria has become a political issue between the state government and opposition parties, the Australian Financial Review reported. The government’s plan to merge the corporations managing the Port of Melbourne and the planned Port of Hastings was blocked by both the opposition and Greens in P...
Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) saw a 25.3 percent container growth in May making it the sixth consecutive month 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 last December. The growth experienced in the second half of this fiscal year contin...
DP World, the container terminals group controlled by the debt-laden Dubai World, has postponed plans for a dual listing in London, blaming technical difficulties in merging its home stock exchanges, the Daily Telegraph reported. The world's fourth-biggest container ports group, which acquired UK operator P&O for US$5.9 billion in 2006, said it was...
The Gemalink Joint Stock Company has signed a contract with the Republic of Korea alliance Dealim-SAMWHA to develop the infrastructure of its container terminal in the southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, the Vietnam News Agency reported. Work on the Gemalink Cai Mep Container Terminal is scheduled to begin in August and operations are expected to commenc...
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