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The opportunity to increase South Mississippi’s share of cargo to and from Central and South America was bolstered by Hurricane Katrina and should get another surge from the expansion of the Panama Canal, the Biloxi Sun Herald reported. Mike Alise, president of Gulf Coast International Cargo, said a new air-cargo facility at the Gulfport-Biloxi Inte...
Total port cargo throughput in Hong Kong decreased by six percent in 2009 over a year earlier to 243 million tonnes - from this inward and outward port cargo dropped by five percent and nine percent to 139.3 million tonnes and 103.7 million tonnes respectively. Despite a full year drop, in the fourth quarter of 2009, total throughput increased by five per...
Cargo handling through ports in South Korea shot up in February, recovering to the volume shown before the economy was battered by the global financial crisis, Yonhap reported. Cargo traffic in the country rose 1.1 percent from the same month in 2008, before the economic crisis hit the global market, to 1.35 million TEUs in February. The figure represente...
The Indian government has embarked on a plan to convert 12 major ports to corporate entities – a move that would give these ports the much-needed freedom to set tariffs and compete with foreign and Indian private ports to which they are losing traffic, the Financial Express (India) reported. According to a senior government official Mumbai's Jawaha...
IMPORT cargo volume at America's retail container ports is expected to rise 13 per cent year-on-year this month according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by Hackett Associates and the National Retail Federation (NRF), with double-digit increases expected to continue through till the middle of the year. Federation vice president Jonatha...
Calcutta: Container feeder lines are threatening hefty surcharges at Haldia port in Calcutta due to the fact none of the port’s cranes are operational after a maintenance contract expired. None of Haldia Dock Complex’s gantry cranes are operational after a three-year maintenance contract expired at the beginning of March. At present there is no ...
The opportunity to increase South Mississippi’s share of cargo to and from Central and South America was bolstered by Hurricane Katrina and should get another surge from the expansion of the Panama Canal, the Biloxi Sun Herald reported. Mike Alise, president of Gulf Coast International Cargo, said a new air-cargo facility at the Gulfport-Biloxi Inte...
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is developing two new terminals as part of its business expansion plan. The business plan has been prepared on the directions of the ministry of shipping, minister of shipping G K Vasan. The port is currently developing a fourth container terminal, at an estimated cost of US$1.5 million, he said, adding that Phase-I of...
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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