- Major reforms aimed at reducing congestion at Port Botany have been announced by New South Wales Minister for Ports and Waterways, Paul McLeay. “It is in everyone’s interest that we have an efficient and transparent landside operation at the port. While I have decided to regulate to reduce congestion at the port and ensure efficiency in the ...
Further strengthening its position as a pioneer in the field of yard crane automation, Cargotec recently handed over the first three of eight automatic stacking crane (ASC) blocks to Hamburger Hafen und Logistik's (HHLA) Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) in Hamburg, Germany. The crane blocks are each equipped with three Kalmar ASCs and related technolog...
Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Commercial Port is launching projects aimed at expansion of container terminals and shipping berths. According to a press statement of the Saudi Ports Authority, the project would increase the capacity of the container terminal to handle one million containers annually. It also would expand and deepen berths from 11 to 16m to e...
Colombo: South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT) has been informed by the Department of Inland Revenue (DIR) that it claimed tax concessions under its Board of Investment (BOI) agreement after knowingly failing to fulfill BOI conditions for tax exemptions. The BOI agreement was signed on September 5, 1999. According to an assessment carried out by the Departmen...
THE Port of Montreal's first quarter container volume increased 3.5 per cent to 309,799 TEU against last year's 299,417 TEU, according to the Montreal Port Authority. Inbound, first quarter volume rose 4.5 per cent to 148,413 TEU and outbound it increased 2.5 per cent to 161,386 TEU. Last year, container traffic fell 15.3 per cent to 1,247,690 TEU as co...
MANILA's International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) is to operate Port of Portland's Terminal 6 and enlarge its annual capacity of the current 220,000-TEU after signing a 25-year lease with a down payment of US$8 million and committing to an annual rent of $4.5 million. Port director Bill Wyatt told the Oregonian daily newspaper that the deal...
NSW Ports Minister Paul McLeay said there would be no more negotiations over the proposed new regulation at Port Botany, which will come into force later this year for setting performance targets and reciprocal penalties for transport operators and stevedores, the Australian Financial Review reported. Under the new rules, shipping lines will have to pay a...
Manila’s North Harbour Port Inc (MNHPI) has hit back at charges that its fees would hit consumers by challenging the shipping lines to bring down both cargo and passenger rates following its own 10% reduction in tariffs. The Manila Standard reported last week that a 5% concession fee has been waived by the port until the facilities have been upgrade...
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