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About 500 container truck drivers protested for a second day at Shanghai's port against rising transport fees and higher fuel prices, according to reports. Hundreds of drivers began a three-day protest yesterday blockading a dockyard and preventing trucks carrying cargo from entering, the report said, citing a logistics company employee, Bloomberg report...
THE Port of New Orleans' Napoleon Avenue container terminal handled 81,987 TEU in the first two months of the year, an increase of 22.8 per cent compared to the same period the previous year, and the latest period for which figures are available. In March the terminal's four container cranes logged a record 927.2 hours, up 25 per cent year on year. M...
EAST China's Qingdao port recorded a 13.2 per cent increase in throughput to 96 million tonnes and moved 17.6 per cent more containers to top 3.2 million TEU in the first quarter, reports Xinhua. The growth credited the port's enhanced information technology for helping to boost volumes. The port completed 159 IT achievements and 282 research and ...
THE Port of Savannah container volume increased 4.5 per cent in March to 238,030 TEU against the 227,860 TEU lifted in March 2010, reported the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), with quarterly volumes rising 12.6 per cent year on year. But the star of the GPA show in March was the ro-ro Port of Brunswick's whose volumes soared 36 per cent year on year, post...
Rapiscan Systems, a division of OSI Systems has begun a container screening programme at the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Rapiscan provides screening and support services to inspect cargo traffic at locations including ports of entry, border crossings and transportation hubs. Its security inspection solutions utilise X-ray and gamma-ray imaging and adv...
APM Terminals has announced the acquisition of an 80% share in Poti Sea Port, which is located on Georgia’s Black Sea coast. The shares have been bought from Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA) of the United Arab Emirates. Poti Sea Port is the largest port in the Republic of Georgia handling liquid and dry bulk, ferries and last year it han...
Ivory Coast ports are expected to begin re-opening this week, following the overthrow of former President Laurent Gbagbo. Incoming president Alassane Ouattara’s spokesman said he expected economic activity to return to normal, including critical cocoa exports. Ivory Coast produces about a third of the world’s cocoa – the country’s...
China Shipping, which operates the West Basin Container Terminal in the Port of Los Angeles, has completed a US$47.6m terminal expansion project that has added 925 foot (282 m) of berth space, 18 additional acres of backland and four state-of-the art container cranes that will increase cargo throughput create jobs and reduce air emissions. Handling cargo...
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