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From Sunday February 28, 2010 at noon, Terminal Pacifico Sur Valparaiso (TPS) resumed its commercial operations for passenger and cargo vessels, after the service interruption as consequence of the earthquake that affected Central and Southern Chile. TPS’s main quay front, made up of berths 1, 2 and 3, is fully operating. At the same time, opera...
Three major Rangoon ports handling 90% of Burma’s imports and exports are to be privatised, the military ruling junta has announced. "Arrangements are under way to hand over ports under the Ministry of Transport, including three major ports in Yangon [Rangoon]," a senior official from the Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce has said. The port...
Brazil's federal government waterway transport agency, Antaq, will issue a tender this year for a new public port to be built in Ilhéus, on the southern coast of Bahia state. A decision has yet to be made on whether the winner will be the company offering to invest most money in the project or that offering the lowest tariffs to users. (Source: ...
Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) has revealed that the region’s ports made substantial gains in the last quarter of 2009 compared with previous year’s figures. Georgia as a whole saw that illusive box trade increase as the GPA moved 217,643 teu in December 2009, posting an increase of 18.2% compared with December 2008. Colonel’s I...
On February 20, 2010, Chiwan Container Terminal (CCT) welcomed a new Oceania service with the success calling of “APL AMAZONITE”. This Asia-Australia service-AAS operates by APL / HMM / Hapag - Lloyd / Evergreen / Hamburg Süd and call CCT every Sunday with port rotation of Kaohsiung - Chiwan - Hong Kong - Melborne - Sydney - Brisbane &nda...
PORTS in southeast China's Fujian province posted a 19.4 per cent increase in throughput to 24.97 million tonnes in January, marking the largest growth during the global crisis, reports Xinhua. Its Fuzhou port registered 6.93 million tonnes, up 15.8 per cent, while Xiamen port with a 41.6 per cent to 11.15 million tonnes in January. Total container throu...
Mumbai: Krishnapatnam Port, developed by Navayuga Engineering on the eastern coast in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, is drawing up plans for setting up a 12,000 acre special economic zone, local media reported. “A reputed iron and steel company has already finalised plans for setting up its unit on about 600 acre at the SEZ to take advantage of...
The US port of Long Beach has inaugurated a $3bn capital construction programme to help it remain competitive. Existing terminals will be expanded and both road and rail access improved. Previous attempts to modernise the port have been frustrated by environmental campaigners, prompting the port authority to introduce its own Clean Air Action Plan to alla...
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