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As the deadline for the scheduled commissioning of the Vallarpadam International Container Transhipmnt Terminal (ICTT) in June is getting closer, the Kochi port is considering a review of various charges it levies to create a level-playing field for developing the terminal as a transhipment hub, the Hindu Business Line reported. DP World, which is operati...
TRANSNET Port Terminals' (TPT) 5.6 billion rand ($757 million) expansion of its Cape Town facility is reported to be squarely on schedule according to South Africa's Engineering News, with 16 rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes having been phased in over the past six months, and a further 16 more to be installed by the end of the year. The expansion works,...
PD PORTS is predicting container volume will grow 30-40 per cent after a 51 per cent growth rate at the harbour in England's north east at the mouth of the River Tees. PD Ports commercial director Graham Wall said the increase has been falsely attributed to the GBP100 million (US$150 million) Tesco warehouse at Teesport rather than retailers' moving fro...
NORTHEASTERN China port of Yingkou lifted a total of 309,000 TEU in January, a robust increase of 41 per cent compared to the same month in the preceding year, Xinhua reported. The Liaoning provincial port in East Bay on the Gulf of Chili in north Yellow Sea, had an overall cargo tonnage in January of 19.2 million tonnes, up 25 per cent year on year. Th...
Dalian: Qingdao Port, the world's seventh-largest port, is in preliminary talks with Brazil-based miner Vale S.A. to develop a shipping berth for 400,000-ton iron-ore carriers, sources reported, citing Chang Dechuan, chairman of Qingdao Port Group, as saying. Qingdao Port, the second-largest foreign trade port in China, is shifting its strategy to concen...
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 ...
Statistics from the Chinese Ministry of Transportation showed that the country's container throughput experienced a substantial year-on-year growth of 25.5 per cent to 11.4 million TEU, thus returning to the pre-downturn level before August 2008, Xinhua reported. Aggregate throughput tonnage of the Chinese ports increased 32.9 per cent to 637 million ton...
British property and transport firm the Peel Group is in talks to sell a stake in its airports unit to fund a joint-bid for Britain's only listed ports company, Forth Ports , Reuters reported. Forth Ports said it had rejected a US$920 million takeover bid from a consortium made up of Deutsche Bank's RREEF infrastructure fund, Arcus and the Peel Group bu...
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