The Florida Department of Transportation plans to build a dedicated truck ramp from the Port of Tampa to the interstate as part of a $600 million Interstate 4 – Crosstown Expressway Connector project that has been fast-tracked as a result of the federal stimulus program. “We are delighted that the I-4 Connector has rec...
Italian shipping group buys other half of ro-ro port Wallhamn After buying Eukor Car Carriers’ 50 percent stake, Grimaldi Group is now the sole owner of the Swedish roll-on, roll-off port of Wallhamn . Grimaldi Group and Eukor bought the port in 2005. Eukor will continue to use Walllhamn under a long term agreement,...
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Slovakia 's Slovenske Lodenice Komarno (SLK) shipyard is to lay off 198 workers of its 685-strong workforce amid the shipbuilding slump. The jobs will go by the end of this year, the Danube shipyard said. The first phase will take place from the end of June, with 120 people to be axed. SLK specializes in building multi-functional river and seagoing...
WASHINGTON —Despite some recent signals of improvement, carload freight and intermodal traffic volumes were down on United States railroads for the week ending January 20, according to the Association of American Railroads. Weekly carload freight, which does not include intermodal data, came in at 261,717 cars, down 17.7 per...
EASTERN China 's Ningbo-Zhoushan port handled 805,000 TEU in May, down 9.6 per cent year on year, Xinhua reported. In this month, the port's cargo throughput rose 13.6 per cent to 50.2 million tonnes. Foreign trade cargo slightly increased 1.3 per cent to 20 million tonnes. From January to May, the port's container throughput cumulated to 3.8 mil...
SHENZHEN's Qianhaiwan Bonded Port Area is expected to complete at the end of June and to start operation in the second half of the year, reports Logistics Week. The port area is located in Nanshan District covering an area of 3.7 square kilometres. It has been constructed in three phases, with one phase focussing on 1.48 square kilometres, another on ...
AFRICA will likely take a bigger slice of global container trade as Somali pirates drive ships around the Cape and away from the Suez Canal, said South Africa's Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) sales chief Nosipho Damasane. Speaking at the African Ports and Harbours Congress in Johannesburg , Ms Damasane said: "We are in discussions with a lot of shi...
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