Mexico’s second largest port on the Pacific coast, Guaymas, has announced that it will launch a tender for the partial concession to build, equip and operate a specialised container terminal. Included in the tender will be a contract to equip the terminal with two gantry cranes and two freight elevator. The new terminal will have a waterfront surf...
TANZANIA's Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (Sumatra) has removed handling and transfer charges for containers moved from the seaport to inland container depots, reports the Dar es Salaam Citizen. When the inland container depots were introduced, The Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS) charged movement and storage ...
THE Dutch government has suspended permits for Belgian dredging of a navigation channel in the River Scheldt, which wends in and out of the two countries on its way to the North Sea. The routing decree covers deepening of the Western Scheldt at 12 shallow points that are currently not deep enough for the largest ships, making the dredging works of "crucia...
NORTH China's Tangshan port in Hebei province recorded 24 per cent slide in container volume to 100,904 TEU year on year in the first half, reports Xinhua. But the port's first-half overall cargo volume hit 78 million tonnes, up 43.9 per cent from a year earlier. Its Jingtang area handled 48.4 million tonnes with a 26.2 per cent rise and its Caofeidi...
DUBAI's DP World has suffered a 10 per cent decline in total container cargo at its ports in the first half of the year, amounting to an aggregate volume of 12.3 million TEU. "The first six months of 2009 have seen some of the most challenging operating environments our industry has ever known," said DP World CEO Mohammed Sharaf, according to The Associa...
Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., operator of China's busiest port, and China Shipping Container Lines Co. rose in Shanghai trading on speculation a global trade slump is easing. Shanghai Port climbed as much as 3.5 percent to 6.29 yuan as of 10:53 a.m. China Shipping Container, the city's biggest cargo-box carrier, jumped as much as 9.3 percent ...
Southwest China's Beibu Gulf Ports handled 27.5 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of the year, up 14.4 per cent year on year, reports Xinhua. Qinzhou port registered the highest growth among Beibu Gulf's three ports with a volume of 4.28 million tonnes in the first half, up 43.5 per cent over the same period last year. Fangcheng port handled 20....
The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners executive committee unanimously approved a resolution urging Congress to amend federal transportation legislation to give ports regulatory control over harbor trucking. An amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, as supported by Oakland, would make it easier for unions to organize harbor t...
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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