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SINGAPORE Changi Airport has registered total cargo movements in May of 153,098 tons, a 14.7 per cent year-on-year increase, authorities have announced. For the first five months of 2010, airfreight movements were up 17.3 per cent to 728,794 tonnes. In May, Changi also registered its highest growth in passenger traffic year-to-date handling almost 3...
GEORGIA's Crisp County Cordele Industrial Development Authority and Cordele Intermodal Services Inc have announced agreements on the construction and operation of an inland port 175 miles west of the Port of Savannah. The Cordele Inland Port will provide direct container rail service to and from the Port of Savannah via Cordele, which is located on Int...
THE Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is fast-tracking a review of environmental issues to help speed modification or replacement of the Bayonne Bridge. The move effectively supports a double-track process begun last year with a comprehensive ongoing planning analysis of alternatives to address height concerns regarding the bridge. The bi-st...
THE cargo throughput of north China's Port of Tianjin stood at 35.28 million tonnes in May, up five per cent year on year, while the containers throughput hit 852,000 TEU, increasing 11.4 per cent, registering renewals of the historical records for both indicators, reports Xinhua. The statistics show that the port's cargo throughput touched 163 millio...
Dubai opened what is planned to become the world's largest airport last week, starting with cargo operators, making the emirate a two-airport city as it aspires to build itself into a global logistics hub, Reuters reported. Dubai Airports, the company overseeing airport projects in the emirate, said the Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International (DWC...
Farmer-turned-port worker Zhao Shushuang surprised many experts when he proposed using electricity to power cranes instead of petrol at Qingdao Port in coastal Shandong province. To his delight, the port management not only accepted his proposal, but coughed up one million yuan (US$146,380) for the project and provided him with a team of technicians. Zh...
US maritime executives and port authorities can be said to be truly thinking outside the box, as well as heeding the lessons of the Great Recession, and are coming up with new ideas as they change their outlook on the transpacific route. Leading the way is former NYK America executive vice-president Peter Keller, who calls for container lines to pool ship...
The Singapore port and shipping industry has been locked in turbulent waters for most of the downturn, and should be careful to keep a keen eye on costs as the world slowly emerges from the 2008/2009 slump. Players in the ocean freight industry have not had it easy, with Singapore-based container shipping, logistics and terminals company Neptune Orient ...
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