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China will finance the building of a second port in Kenya, a transport corridor and the upgrading of a railroad linking Kenya's Mombasa port and the Ugandan capital, a statement said Wednesday. The second port is to be built in the coastal town of Lamu, said the statement from President Mwai Kibaki's office, but did not give figures. Initially, the po...
THE US Port of Long Beach does not intend to follow in the footsteps of the neighbouring Port of Los Angeles to offer a six per cent discount on rent for container terminal operators, partly on account of port authorities already practicing an "ongoing terminal-by-terminal review of leases with operators." According to a Long Beach spokesman, port authori...
DP WORLD has purchased another 400 hectares and Shell's remaining interest in the London Gateway container terminal and logistics park for US$220 million, the company told the Dubai stock exchange in a statement. "By starting major elements of construction, we ensure maximum flexibility to develop the project efficiently in line with market demand," said...
THE first phase of the newest container facility at Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP), Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT), has been completed. The event was marked by the arrival of United Arab Shipping Company's (UASC) 3,802-TEU Al Muttanabi assigned to the carrier's India-Mediterranean-US east coast Mina service. According to a statement from t...
SOUTH China's Zhuhai Gaolan port area has launched liner services to Tianjin and Haikou to create "express shipping lines" extending north and south, reports Xinhua. The Zhuhai-Tianjin service is operated by the Yangpu Sinowell Shipping Corporation, while the Zhuhai to Haikou service is run by the Haikou Harbour Container Corporation, said Zhuhai Port Ho...
THE ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, are losing market share to rivals in Mexico, Canada as well as to Gulf and US east coast ports, reports the Los Angeles Times. To reverse this, the ports are "aggressively advertising and giving customers discounts," launching ad campaigns in trade publications to promote their efficiency, the presence of two natio...
CONTAINER operations at the French Port of Le Havre have been brought to a standstill by a 24-hour dockers strike at the nation's biggest box port. In a separate development, the Indian shipping minister confirmed that a meeting took place earlier this week in an effort to resolve the wage revision dispute threatening to trigger strikes at 12 of the bigg...
China International Marine Containers (CIMC) has announced that its subsidiary, TGE Gas Engineering, has won the bid on an EPC (engineer, procure and construct) contract for an LNG terminal project in Zhejiang. CNOOC Zhejiang Ningbo LNG Co, the owner of the Zhejiang LNG Receiving Station Project, called for bids for the storage tank EPC contract in Novemb...
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