CN (Canadian National Railway Company) and the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that commits the parties to develop a best-practices vision for the gateway’s supply chain, improve productivity, and leverage these gains to increase their transportation market share. Claude Mongeau, CN presiden...
THE South Carolina Port of Charleston handled 108,994 TEU in February, an increase of seven per cent against February last year. During the first eight months of the port's current fiscal year (July-February), Charleston handled 912,789 TEU, an increase of 12.4 per cent compared to the same period a year earlier. A statement from the South Carolina sta...
CHINA Datang Corporation, a large state-owned energy company, plans to pour CNY80 billion (US$12.2 billion) onto developing Chaozhou, a river port in eastern Guangdong province, into "China's Amsterdam" as a fuel terminal to serve a yet to be built mega power station, Xinhua reports. The company plans to build a energy resources base and logistics hub w...
THE port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands earned EUR154 million (US$218.2 million) in 2010, an increase of EUR10 million compared to the previous year, excluding the one-off proceeds of a sale in 2009. Port authorities' attributed the stronger result to an 11 per cent increase in the volume of goods handled by the port last year. Operating income was ...
Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) made a full return to operations in the third week of March, handling its first export shipment of coal and container shipping exchanges since the February 22 earthquake. Although suffering significant damage from the 6.3-magnitude event, which struck “just streets away” at a depth of five kilometres, LPC h...
On Friday the EUROGATE Asia Roadshow 2011 came to an end in Singapore. This was the last station on the presentation tour. At nine Asian cities altogether, EUROGATE presented its future deepwater container terminal to over 1,100 representatives from shipping lines, haulage companies and logistics providers, as well as opinion leaders and decision-makers fro...
The VO Chidambaranar (VOC) Port at Tuticorin has handled 449,514 TEUs till March 21 this year, according to Exim News Service. The Port's container terminal has been run by PSA Sical Terminals Ltd, a joint venture of Port of Singapore Authority and South India Corporation Agencies Pvt. Ltd, since 1999. Mr A. Subbiah, Chairman of VOC Port Trust, said th...
The Port Authority’s results for 2010 amount to 154 million. That is 10 million more than the results for 2009, excluding the one-off proceeds of a sale during that year. The increase in the results is thanks, among other things, to the strong recovery in goods throughput in 2010 (+11%). CEO Hans Smits: “We are extremely satisfied with these fig...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi