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A US$350 million project that will nearly double the capacity of the New York Container Terminal (NYCT) in Mariners Harbour and create more than 300 full-time jobs has put the port on a collision course with environmentalists. The project will require taking a slice of a contaminated but ecologically dynamic tidal wetland, angering environmentalists and p...
Cochin Port Employees' Organisation (CPEO) has written to the Union Ministry of Shipping to make available the services of government-owned Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) to carry out capital dredging work in Kochi for the International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT), the Hindu reported. A memorandum submitted to the Union Shipping Secretary...
VOLUMES are leaving smaller British ports back to Felixstowe and Southampton, Britain's busiest container ports, according to Department for Transport statistics, reports London's Financial Times. "There's some evidence of traffic concentrating at the major ports," said Paul Davey, head of corporate affairs at Hong Kong's Hutchison Ports, which owns t...
SINGAPORE's global terminal operator PSA International profit fell 6.1 per cent to S$976 million (US$698 million) on revenues of S$3.83 billion, which declined 2.7 per cent in 2009 as year on year container volumes fell 9.9 per cent to 56.9 million TEU. Higher than expected profit was attributed to the company's "prudent control of capital expenditure a...
INDIA's northwestern Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) posted 34.6 per cent growth in 2009-10 of cargo volume for all its ports, handling 206 million tonnes cargo compared to 153 million tonnes in 2008-09, reports The Business Standard. "Steering past the slowdown, Gujarat's non-major ports are reaching new heights," said GMB chief executive Pankaj Kumar. ...
PORT of Guangzhou lifted 11.3 million TEU last year, up 1.8 per cent year on year, rising to the world's sixth largest place from seventh in 2008, Xinhua reported. Guangzhou's Nansha port area accounted for 6.56 million TEU, up 2.7 per cent. The port recorded a throughput tonnage of 375 million tonnes, up 4.4 per cent, also ranking it sixth in the wor...
HHLA, Hamburg's largest stevedore, is set to temporarily shutter one of its container terminals in response to a steep slump in cargo volume at Europe's third largest box hub. The company is negotiating with labor unions over closing down the Tollerort terminal, its smallest facility, and transferring its traffic and workers to the Burchardkai terminal....
A Dutch bulk cargo carrier ran into the pier yesterday at the port of Alexandria in Egypt, RIA Novosti reports citing the Port Authority. The incident occurred during a de-berthing operation. As a result the ship was seriously damaged, the port facilities as well. Attorney General's Office began an investigation into the incident, arrested the vessel, ...
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