CARGO facility at Halifax Stanfield International Airport (HSIA) opened at a cost of US$15 million for an area that covers 3,716 square metre of which holds a refrigerated area for perishable products. The new Gateway Facilities ULC cargo facility, jointly run by HSIA, is already accepting 767 freighters weekly with cargo lifts of Nova Scotia seafood to...
SINGAPORE's global terminal operator PSA International has won the Best Global Container Terminal Operating Company award for the fifth time at the Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards (AFSCA) in Shanghai. PSA Singapore Terminals was also voted "Best Container Terminal - Asia for the 21st time, having lifted four million TEU in a year. "We are h...
DP World Aden has received six new rubber-tyre gantry (RTG) cranes to take to 12 the number of new cranes that have been delivered to Aden this year, with two giant quay cranes ordered for delivery in the second half of next year. In line with DP World's commitment to training and development of its people, more than 20 local Yemeni crane operators hav...
PINGXIANG customs checkpoint, on the Sino-Vietnamese border, recorded a trade value of over US$1 billion from January to April this year, thanks to the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement, Xinhua reported. The checkpoint handled 982,000 tonnes of trade cargo during this period, up 15.5 per cent year on year. Value jumped 52 per cent to $1.06 billion. Impor...
China’s Tangshan Port Group hopes to raise more than RMB 1bn ($146m) from its IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange this coming June 18. According to various media reports, the company will use the money raised from the sale of no more than 200m shares to help finance the construction of a new breakbulk berth at Jingtang Seaport. Exp...
DP World Southampton, the second busiest container terminal in the UK, has announced that it is to upgrade its shipside capabilities by deepening its container berths and purchasing further ship-to-shore cranes. Once the dredging work has been completed later this year, the depth for berths 205, 206 and 207 will be 14 m, 14.6 m and 15 m, respecti...
China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI), through its wholly-owned subsidiary CM Qingdao (CMT), has established a 50-year joint venture with the Qingdao Port Group (QPG) to construct, operate and manage a new bulk cargo terminal in the Chinese port of Qingdao. The new joint venture, named Qingdao Qianwan West Port United Terminal (QQTU), has ...
North Sea drilling rigs anchoring up in Scotland helped Cromarty Firth Port Authority to post a 40% rise in turnover to £4.5 million for 2009 up from £3.2 m the previous year. The Scottish port authority also posted a record £0.96 m pre-tax profit for the year, compared with £367,000 in 2008, “The primary areas of incre...
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