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Panama will spend $300 million on a liquid natural gas, or LNG, terminal and $ 130 million on a gas-fired generating plant, the country's ministry of finance said in a statement Wednesday. The projects will help meet the country's growing energy demand, and reduce the use of liquid fuels, the statement said. The LNG terminal will allow the country to ...
The board of Authority of the Riga port (Latvia) said they had sent letters to companies leasing the port’s territory they would cancel lease contracts. The statement followed yesterday’s authorities meeting. The Authority said the companies leased the port’s property but did not operate, late in paying a debt at that, "Hooter" newspaper r...
- The Israeli Port of Haifa is to replace its 20-year-old container management system with a Navis SPARCS N4 Terminal Operating System (TOS) during the second half of this year. The web-based TOS will govern the movement of all container logistics and operations from gate to yard and to vessel. SPARCS N4 will offer improved customer support, increased sta...
- Cargotec is to supply DCT Gdansk, Poland with two Kalmar E-One2 rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes, with delivery due during this first quarter of 2010. The new order will help the port satisfy demands to increase its handling capability. The 7+1 wide and 1-over-5 high RTGs, with a maximum lifting capacity of 40 tonnes, will come equipped with Kalmar&rsqu...
- Container trucks and other commercial vehicles exiting from DP World’s Jebel Ali Port and Jebel Ali Free Zone will be able to use a new dedicated inspection facility at the Main Gate 3, following the official opening of an integrated clearing facility this week. The 88,906 sq m ‘Gate 3’ complex is designed to facilitate quicker movemen...
- The new $400m third berth at Deltaport, Port Metro Vancouver, the largest container terminal in Canada, has been officially opened after two years under construction. Handling approximately 45% of containerised cargo moving through Canada’s west coast, and more than half of that through Port Metro Vancouver, the new facility will increase Deltapor...
The world economic crisis left its mark on the Port of Le Havre during 2009, where the provisional 74m tonnes traffic figures, including bunkering and ship stores, show a decrease of 8.5% against 2008. Container trade dropped by 11% to 22.1m tonnes against 24.9m tonnes in the previous year, which, in terms of the number of units handled corresponds to 2.2...
SHANGHAI International Port Group (SIPG), operator of the Port of Shanghai achieved an operating revenue of CNY16.6 billion (US$2.4 billion) in 2009, down 8.8 per cent year on year, Xinhua reported. The group's net profit attributed to shareholders of the parent company fell 18.8 per cent to CNY3.8 billion. China recorded a growth of 32.7 per cent in i...
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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