- Cargotec has delivered ten of 12 Kalmar icon TR618i terminal tractors ordered by the newly-built Container Terminal at the Seaport of St Petersburg. The order, only announced now, was placed in Q4-2009. The remaining two units and one Kalmar DCF 90-45E7 empty container handler, with a lifting capacity of 9 tonnes and a total container stacking height of...
GLOBAL marine terminal operator DP World has announced that its new Saigon Premier Container Terminal (SPCT) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has attracted a new customer. It said that container shipping line MISC Berhad has started calling twice a week at SPCT, after its 1,725-TEU Bunga Teratai Empat started calling at SPCT at the end of last month. This br...
Dudlin Port chief executive Enda Connellan revealed yesterday that net profit at the semi-state company fell by about €4m -- or 22pc -- last year, to nearly €14.5m. Turnover dropped by €8m to roughly €66.5m. Releasing trade figures for the second half of 2009 that beat forecasts, Mr Connellan added that the current level of activity at...
McMurdo, a company of the Orolia Group announces the introduction of its first AIS SART (Automatic Identification System Search And Rescue Transmitter) to its range of safety products. The Smartfind S5 AIS SART further enhances the Smartfind range of beacons from McMurdo Ltd, a leading manufacturer of emergency distress beacons. Aimed at the commercial ma...
The Port of Montreal’s market diversification mitigated the impact of the global economic crisis on its 2009 traffic results, announced the Montreal Port Authority. In fact, container traffic with the Mediterranean grew 5.5% in the number of TEUs (20-foot equivalent units). Marine grain shipping traffic also rose, recording a 14.7% increase over the...
Through a joint venture operated by their intermodal subsidiaries in Germany, the port logistics groups EUROGATE and HHLA intend to set up full-service hinterland terminals and depots for container traffic from and to German seaports. Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and EUROGATE Group aim to jointly build up a terminal network for container handlin...
Gautam Adani-controlled Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (MPSEZ), which runs India’s biggest private port at Mundra in Gujarat on the west coast, has opened talks to buy Gangavaram port in Andhra Pradesh, according to local media. If successful, the acquisition will help Adani gain a foothold on India’s eastern coast. Source: ...
APM Terminals' Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) enjoyed an 11 per cent increase in throughput in 2009, despite a 20 per cent drop in transits through the canal in he same period. The terminal benefited from a better share of eastern Mediterranean transshipments as well as growing its domestic Egyptian market. Regular customers include CKYH alliance c...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi