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The Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) is considering letting out the second container terminal, which is run by PSA-Sical and currently “under-utilised’’, to handle cargo, according to Subhash Kumar, chairman of ChPT. “We are in dialogue with PSA-Sical on this,” he told The Hindu. PSA Sical — a joint venture between PSA Intern...
ECU-LINE, an Antwerp-based NVOCC (non-vessel operating common carrier) has signed a pilot agreement with INTTRA, the leading e-commerce platform for the ocean freight industry, to become the first global NVOCC to receive shipping instructions from ECU-LINE's LCL (less than container load) shippers using the INTTRA ocean platform. Starting in March, the E...
- The US Port of Virginia has just received its largest ever container ship when it docked at Norfolk International Terminals. For years the Virginia Port Authority (VPA) has been making improvements in its cargo handling infrastructure to attract and accommodate vessels like the Tomoko, which at 1,089 feet (332 m) is approximately the same length as the ...
ISRAEL's Antitrust Authority director general Ronit Kan has blocked a deal between El Al and Maman Cargo Terminals pending a review of concerns that the tie-up could undermine air cargo competition. In a letter to the CEOs of El Al and Maman, Ms Kan said the arrangement in which Maman would award El Al discounts and provides shares and options to the air...
THE biggest containership to call at Virginia Ports, the 8,402-TEU MSC Tomoko, docked at Norfolk International Terminals to load and discharge cargo recently. The MSC Tomoko, drawing 46 feet of water, just cleared the Hampton Roads 50-foot shipping channel. Aircraft carriers, which make Norfolk their home, draw 40 feet, reported the Newport News Daily Pre...
INDIA's first state-run postpanamax container terminal in Cochin on the southwestern coast, which was to open soon will now open towards the end of the year, reports India's Economic Times. The International Container Transshipment Terminal planned to reduce the Singapore Colombo feeder trades by facilitating more direct calls by megaships to an Indian ...
The Port of Ningbo has launched a container train service from Nanchang in central Jiangxi province to Ningbo's Beilun port, after its empty-container train service on the same route launched in the beginning of February. The inaugural train composed of 48 railway wagons carried 96 TEU from Nanchang to Beilun with a transit time of 27 hours. Cargo can be...
GUNPOWDER shipments have been cleared for storage at the Port of Auckland in New Zealand despite the outcry from environments who say the port is located too close to the City of Auckland. Australian company Defence Logistics will unload four containers, each holding up to 14 tonnes of gunpowder, to be held briefly before continuing their journey to Calif...
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