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- Kansas City Southern (KCS) has acquired the Puerta Mexico intermodal facility at Toluca and in a few days KCS (Mexico) will add a direct train service from Lazaro Cardenas to Puerta Mexico, providing Mexico City importers and exporters with a service featuring improved consistency and reliability and better transit times, according to the company. "Puer...
The Port Klang Authority's (PKA) move to reduce the free storage period for full container load containers at Northport and Westports from five days to three, looks set to be delayed again, despite assurances to the contrary, Business Times reported. On December 31 2009, PKA had issued a directive that it would go ahead with the implementation of the dec...
The European Liner Affairs Association (ELAA) is to be closed as its responsibilities transfer to the World Shipping Council (WSC) as of July 1, 2010. ELAA members at their meeting in Taipei, Taiwan on March 17, 2010 agreed that the ELAA had successfully completed the tasks for which it was set up, and therefore should be closed. The ELAA was set up...
The Port of Marseille Fos authority has granted to Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) the right to develop the proposed Fos 4XL container terminal. HPH proposed a "Twin Hub" concept that would pair the development of the new terminal with its "sister terminal", the European Container Terminal, or ECT, which it operates in the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlan...
Westport Malaysia charted a new record number of crane moves in one shift this month, with 734 moves per hour on the CSCL Pusan, belonging to China Shipping, Business Times reported. The 9,600-TEU vessel was off-loaded by nine cranes, doing a total of 5,244 moves. The feat beat the previous record of 665 moves per hour set in 2008. "The productiv...
While throughput in the port of Rotterdam declined by 8.1% in 2009, the result of the Port of Rotterdam Authority fell by 4.4%, to € 144.2 million. Including a one-off item of income, the result rose by 10.9% to € 167.4 million. ‘The Port Authority invested some € 341 million in the port in 2009. In 2010 we will be increasing that to ab...
Port of Tauranga is paying US$10.36 million for all of Tapper Transport, with the main aim of increasing business through the port's inland Auckland facility MetroPort, reported the New Zealand Press Association. The agreement includes a two-year earn out provision, with a maximum payment of $2.76 million. The announcement comes a day after the death o...
Cochin Port Trust has sought the views of members of its Board of Trustees on a request from India Gateway Terminals Ltd (IGTL) to urgently consider a reduction in maritime charges and relaxation of the Cabotage Law to make the operations of the International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT), scheduled for commissioning in June, more competitive, repo...
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.
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