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Malaysia Thursday charged a former port chief and two other figures over their roles in a multi-billion-dollar financial scandal at a free-trade zone. The Port Klang Free Trade Zone, a commercial and industrial project south of the capital, was conceived as a 1.82 billion ringgit (539 million dollar) venture constructed over 1,000 acres (405 hectares). Ho...
Hamburg and Bremen-Bremerhaven, Germany’s biggest ports, will freeze harbor dues in 2010 and offer volume discounts in a bid to break a yearlong decline in traffic and dissuade ocean carriers from switching calls to rival ports. The initiatives came after Rotterdam announced a 5 percent cut in ship dues in 2010 and Antwerp froze charges for next year...
Shanghai port's cargo throughput last month grew by double digits for the first time this year, reflecting a rise in exports, reported Shanghai Daily. Cargo throughput totalled 30.7 million tonnes in November, a rise of 19.06 percent from the same month last year, said Shanghai International Port Group, the city's port operator. But November's throughp...
THE ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will ban trucks made in 1993 and earlier from entering their container terminals effective from January 1 under their Clean Truck Programmes. But trucks that do not meet the deadline will be given four months to work at the port, "but only if the owner is awaiting a new truck through a port or state financing progra...
DP WORLD's Saigon Premier Container Terminal (SPCT) in Ho Chi Minh City has started receiving calls from two additional container shipping services. This brings the total number of its customers to three, including CMA CGM's Tanjung Pelepas-Port Kelang-Ho Chi Minh City feeder service, reports Alphaliner. It said MCC Transport's SVN2 service has start...
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal (JNPCT) has currently on order 4 quay cranes, and proposal to acquire 3 more which has been sent to the Union government for approval, disclosed Mr S. S. Hussain, Chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT). According to Exim News Service, the 4 cranes should be in place within a year, following which some of...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a EUR 150 million loan for expanding the Port of Barcelona. EIB Vice-President Carlos da Silva Costa and the Chairman of the Barcelona Port Authority, Jordi Valls, signed the finance contract in Catalonia’s capital today. Mr da Silva Costa underlined the EIB’s commitment to projects of this kind, &...
Simpson, Spence and Young, the London shipbrokerage, reported yesterday that the number of capsizes waiting to berth at coal and iron ore load ports in Australia in addition to iron ore ports in Brazil and China has risen this week to 134, the highest since late July. There are an estimated 48 capesizes waiting to discharge at Chinese iron ore ports and 32 ...
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