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Konecranes reports that its Q1 order intake was up 59.4% on the same period in 2010 to Euro510.9m; sales of Euro 387.8m were up 26.6% and operating profit was up 60% to Euro 18.5m. According to the company, demand for new equipment is expected to grow compared to last year although due to the timing of large port crane projects, the quarterly equipment o...
This year’s (2011) first quarter throughput at the Zeeland ports increased by over 7% in comparison with the same period in 2010, with general cargo (+23%) and dry bulks (+ 8%) showing the strongest recovery and continuing the growth experienced throughout last year. With current worldwide economic trends increasing and although still early in the ...
A comprehensive manpower management system to optimise workforce deployment is being implemented at the Jebel Ali Port facility by DP World (DPW) in the drive for operational efficiency. It is one of the world’s first major container terminals to integrate such a system. The introduction of the Rostima Labour Management System (LMS), described as &...
EAST China's Port of Ningbo lifted 3.36 million TEU of containers during the first three months, up 21.6 per cent year on year, six per cent above the national average, ensuring its place as China's third largest port, Xinhua reports. In this period, the port's cargo tonnage grew 10.8 per cent to over 100 million tonnes, equivalent to the year 2000's...
The Port of Los Angeles in the coming decade will spend more than $3 billion to deepen its access channel, expand marine terminals, add on-dock rail capacity and improve traffic flow through street and bridge improvements in the harbor area. The capital improvement program is needed to accommodate a projected significant increase in cargo volume, better h...
Container traffic on German waterways surged 18.4 percent to a record high in 2010, outpacing a 12.8 percent growth in total shipments across Europe's biggest inland shipping network. Box traffic reached almost 2.2 million 20-foot equivalent units last year compared with 1.85 million TEUs in 2009, according to government figures. The government didn'...
According to the Wuhan Port Group, all the facilities at the city’s Yangsi container terminal will start to be transferred to the Yangluo terminal from 18 May – but the move is not without controversy. David Lammie of Yangtze Business Services explains that until now, the Yangsi terminal has handled the bulk of the city’s container volum...
The Port of Rotterdam has posted a first quarter 12 per cent container throughput increase to 2.9 million TEU against last year's quarterly volume of 2.68 million TEU, largely attributing growth to a robust Asia-Europe trade and intra-Europe volumes. "Abundant growth is over, although 12 per cent for containers is still striking. The forecast for this y...
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
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