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Israel Corporation subsidiary Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. has dropped out of the $300 million tender to build and operate the Ennore container terminal project in Chennai, India, as the slowdown in the shipping industry continues to affect the company. Zim subsidiary Zim Ports Ltd. (ZPL) notified the other partners in the consortium to this effe...
Sonangol Oil Corp. is to build a $30 million port in the north of Sao Tome, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Arzemiro dos Prazeres, director of the country’s offshore zone authority. The port should be operational during 2010 and is expected to handle half the daily traffic in the Gulf of Guinea, equivalent to about 100 ships a day, he said. Ang...
The port of Zhanjiang is speeding up its pace of development into a major port in south China. By 2011, the port's capacity is expected to reach 150 million tonnes, Xinhua reported. During the period from 2000 to 2005, Zhanjiang city invested CNY2.6 billion (US$380 million) on port infrastructures, building up 13 new berths, adding 31.8 million t...
Eastern China's port of Taicang lifted 1.45 million TEU in 2008, up 42 per cent on the preceding year within a total throughput of 40 million tonnes, reports Xinhua. Last year, the port introduced a series of measures to cope with the negative influence of the US economic crisis and to secure the growth of its container throughput, including attr...
Cargo volumes at major US container ports have declined for 17 months, and 2008 ended as the weakest year since 2004, according to the monthly Port Tracker survey by IHS Global Insight for the National Retail Federation. We don't expect a significant increase in traffic at the ports until retail sales return to normal, and even then, retailers wi...
Tokyo Gas may build a new LNG terminal in Hitachi in north-eastern Tokyo, to be operational by 2018. Japan is already the largest LNG importer in the world and plans for the new terminal have been described as a move to meet rising domestic demand. Announcement of the project has come on the heels of an agreement by Tokyo Electric Power to ex...
Melbourne’s port was quieter in December after imports of foreign-made motor vehicles slumped, reported the Herald-Sun. The number of containers moving through the Port of Melbourne fell 6.2 per cent in December, compared with the same month in 2007. Port of Melbourne spokesman Peter Harry said that during the month the port handled about 184,000 ...
The Spanish North Western Port of Vigo has taken over 24,000 square metres at an adjacent industrial state to allow it to store granite and empty containers. It is also seeking the transfer of a further 100,000 square metres. Source: http://www.portstrategy.com
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
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