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Fresh Long Beach fee cut for slow steamingMar 18, 2010

The Port of Long Beach has introduced a new way for shipping lines to earn more reductions in port dockage fees. All the line has to do is slow to 12 knots within 40 nautical miles of Point Fermin starting April 1. If the vessel slows down 90 percent of the time for a quarter — such as the three-month period April through June — it can submi...

Dedicated port for Inner Mongolia coal Mar 18, 2010

Dalian: The landlocked coal-rich Inner Mongolia in north China will soon have an open access to ship its coal from a port in its neighbouring province to fuel-thirsty customers in eastern and southern regions, Xinhua reported. A port terminal to be built in Huludao, Liaoning Province, will support an annual throughput of 50 million tonnes of coal when the...

After rising, India box volume falls in February, but uptick expectedMar 18, 2010

CONTAINER traffic fell 8.7 per cent in February from January across India's major ports after posting month to month gains in the previous two months, reported LiveMint The Wall Street Journal. But year-on-year container throughput showed growth in the first two months of the year with 2.8 per cent more boxes lifted, and with a pronounced increase expect...

Fujian ports' throughput up 14.7 pc in first two monthsMar 18, 2010

PORTS in southeast China's Fujian province posted a year-on-year 14.7 per cent increase in throughput to 46.67 million tonnes in the first two months, contributing to 14.6 per cent of the expected annual volume of 2010, reports Xinhua. Its Fuzhou port registered 12.2 million tonnes, up 4.5 per cent, while Meizhouwan port with a 2.7 per cent to 14.44 mill...

APM Terminals wins bid for 25-year concession in LiberiaMar 18, 2010

APM TERMINALS (APMT), the port arm of Danish shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk, has been declared the preferred bidder by the Liberian government to run a wharf complex at the Port of Monrovia under a 25 year concession. Rehabilitation of the Marginal Wharf at the port is to make part of the concession agreement including operating Marine Services at an inv...

Port of NY/NJ launches program to prohibit older trucksMar 17, 2010

The Port Authority and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have launched an aggressive program to replace up to 636 of the oldest, most polluting trucks serving the Port of New York and New Jersey with newer models that generate less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The $28m program is designed to encourage the owners of up to 636 pre-1994 dra...

Iraq to seek bids in April for $6 bln port projectMar 17, 2010

Iraq will next month invite foreign firms to submit bids for the planned construction of a $6 billion port south of Basra, which together with a new rail system will create a regional transport conduit to rival the Suez Canal, officials say. Iraq is also seeking investors to build 8,000 km (4,970 miles of new rail line, including a $3 billion railway networ...

Works start at new London Gateway portMar 17, 2010

Major work starts today at DP World London Gateway, the UK’s new deep sea port and logistics park, situated 25 miles east of Central London on the River Thames.  To mark the occasion, Shahid Malik MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government, is visiting the 1,500-acre site. The works will in...

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