Eredene Capital, a UK-based company which invests in infrastructure projects in India, said it has won a bid in a consortium to build and operate the Container Terminal at Ennore Port in the southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu, Dow Jones reported. The estimated project cost of the Ennore Container Terminal is US$312 illion. Eredene has a 22 percent ...
Terminal operator Penang Port is confident of meeting its volume target of one million TEUs this year, based on its performance in the first five months of 2010, Business Times reported. For the January-May period, the port handled 452,575 TEUs, up 32 percent from 342,763 TEUs recorded in the same period in 2009, according to chairman Hilmi Yahaya. ...
Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) in Mumbai is choked with containers, prompting lines to divert vessels from the Indian gateway. All the three terminals are reporting severe delays, the Hindu Business Line reported. According to one estimate, the collective yard is host to some 50,000 TEUs and the ICD is holding around 9,000. Of this, nearly 67 percent ...
Abu Dhabi: A new CEO has been appointed at Abu Dhabi Ports Co to run its flagship Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone (KPIZ) development and other projects. Tony Douglas is a previous CEO of Heathrow airport and former COO and Group Chief Executive designate of UK construction group Laing O’Rourke. ADPC Chairman Dr Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber welcomed the ...
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has been awarded a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant in conjunction with the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program. The USD$2.72 million award will repower GPA-owned equipment with higher tier engines that reduce air emissions. "When we officia...
The US$7 billion New Doha Port Project took another big step forward with the Qatar Chamber of Commerce (QCC) and Industry receiving earlier in the week the master plan for the project from Worley Parsons Qatar, architects and engineers, and AECOM, project management consultants, at the Chamber premises, the Qatar Tribune reported. The new port, to be c...
Customs operations at all container terminals in Pakistan came to a halt due to the protest of appraisement officers against the issuance of arrest warrants of 14 customs officials on the charges of clearing 47 containers of liquor under fake Goods Declarations (GDs), Business Recorder reported. The protest, which was jointly staged by Pakistan Customs ...
The board of the Virginia Port Authority unanimously approved a 20-year lease of APM Terminals' state-of-the-art container facility in Portsmout, ending three years of competition and putting all of the port's major terminals under one flag, the Virginian-Pilot reported. "This is in my estimation a grand slam home run for all the parties involved," sa...
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