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BANGLADESH's largest port of Chittagong handled 1.16 million TEU, an 8.6 per cent leap in volumes from last year's 1.07 million TEU with the biggest leap from imports up 50,000 TEU year on year. According to a report from London's International Freighting Weekly the port which handles 92 per cent of the country's international trade saw both exports g...
PSA International (PSA) handled 56.93m teu at its port projects around the world for the year ending 31 December 2009 representing a decline of 9.9% over 2008, with PSA Singapore Terminals contributing 25.14m teu (-13.1%) of the total. This first-ever decline in PSA’s global container throughput was brought on by the sharp contraction in world trade l...
On January 4 2010, DCT Gdansk received the largest container vessel ever to call at Poland when the 8,200 teu Maersk Taikung (length 332 m; beam 43.2 m; draft 14.5 m) arrived from the Far East. From January 2010, Maersk post-Panamax ships sailing on Maersk Line’s AE10 service from China will call at DCT Gdansk every Monday with Polish, Russian and Fin...
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) recorded another year of growth in 2009 retaining its position as Malaysia’s leading container terminal. PTP Chairman Datuk Mohd Sidik Shaik Osman said that PTP closed 2009 with a container throughput of 6m teu, 7.5% higher than 2008. This growth was achieved in a very difficult year for the industry, where many shi...
The extraordinary cold weather in northern China is creating navigational hazards as well as ensuring a huge crunch on the nation’s energy supplies. China may be forced to shut 11 percent of electricity generators connected to the nation’s main grid because of coal shortages, the Xinhua News Agency said this week. Expanding ice cover i...
Dubai’s new cruise terminal located in the Port Rashid complex will be inaugurated in February giving a big boost to the cruise tourism segment in the region’s best cruise tourism destination. The facade of the New Cruise Terminal building is based upon Dubai's contemporary Arabic design. The main purpose is to reflect Dubai's rich her...
Sea Box, Inc., a supplier of military and specially-designed containers, has completed the purchase of a 378,000 square foot facility located on 51 acres in East Riverton, New Jersey. This facility will be the new world headquarters for Sea Box, Inc. The building has over 330,000 square feet of manufacturing space, 18,000 square feet of warehousing,...
In accordance with preliminary data (results of calculations will be adjusted by 14 January), Klaipėda port (Lithuania) achieved rather good results in cargo handling in the year 2009. Although annual volumes of turnover were less, in comparison to the year 2008, the positive dynamics in cargo handling results observed since May 2009 has significantly reduc...
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
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