BRITISH COLUMBIA's Port of Prince Rupert quarterly container volume surged 87.3 per cent to 76,860-TEU while overall cargo through the port during the same three-month period rose 72.8 per cent year on year. Port president and CEO Don Krusel said it had been harbour's best performance since 1997, and was evidence of customer confidence in Prince Rupert ...
A NEW DB Schenker logistics terminal 20 minutes from downtown Sofia is now fully operational, the German logistics giant has announced. The Bulgarian logistics centre interconnects rail and road and has two private rail sidings. The EUR10 million (US$12.7 million) terminal at Bozhuriste is close to the international highway between Sofia and Belgrade. I...
The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has signed an agreement with ZPMC of China to purchase cranes for operations at the Jaya Container Terminal (JCT), reported Sri Lanka’s Daily News. The deal involves the purchase of three gantry cranes and 24 mobile cranes at a cost of US$62.94 million. The new gantries would be of greater capacity than the one...
- The Port of Los Angeles is pursuing plans to become the world’s first port to offer a reduced tariff for zero-emission vehicles imported into the United States through the port. The reduced-fee incentive was announced as Chinese manufacturer BYD Auto Company Limited (BYD), a leader in electric and hybrid vehicles and other renewable energy product...
- The operational capability at London Thamesport has been boosted by the arrival of a new ZPMC ship-to-shore gantry crane, the second in two years and which brings the total number of gantry cranes at the Kent port to eight. With an outreach of 62.5 metres, the ultra post-panamax unit is capable of handling the latest generation of container ships with c...
ST PETERSBURG's First Container Terminal handled 352,720 TEU, up 31 per cent year on year from January through April, according to Russian Transport Daily Report. Container traffic totalled 96,817 TEU in April 2010, up 36.6 per cent against April 2009. Exports totalled 46,549 TEU in April 2010 and imports came to 50,268 TEU with reefer boxes totalling 12...
The Port of Manta passed back to the control of the government of Ecuador from April 1 closing the door onlast year’s failed concession attempt. It had formerly been transferred to Terminales Internacionales del Ecuador (TIDE), which abandoned the concession in February 2009. The government had been in subsequent negotiations with an interested pr...
- The first new images and video to show what the proposed £1.5bn (US$2.4bn) 1,500 acre London Gateway port and logistics park will look like once complete have been released, giving interested parties the opportunity to take a virtual tour of the new facility. According to the company, the new futuristic animations of the facility, available on Lon...
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