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In spite of an economic climate which was particularly difficult in the 4th quarter duisport was able to increase its container throughput to 1 million TEU in 2008. “We owe this growth again largely to the efficiency and the attractiveness of the Port of Duisburg. For years we have been growing faster than the vast majority of European inland and sea port...
It has been widely assumed among media analysts that the measure of a seaport's ranking position is best described by its continued growth in turnover. While this is an apparently logical proposition, it contains the error of ignoring the fact that seaports are merely chain links in terms of market functioning in the field of the economic policies pursued...
Reflecting the global recession and its effects on U.S. consumer demand and shipping, cargo volumes fell at the Port of Tacoma in 2008. From 2002 through 2006, Tacoma set successive container cargo records, with volumes growing from 1.5 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent container units) to 2.1 million TEUs. In 2007, the Port's container volume fell t...
The ports of Tacoma and Seattle, and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency announced a combined match of $318,000 in additional funding for the Clean Air Agency’s Puget Sound Ports Cargo-Handling Equipment Replacement and Retrofit Program. This comes on top of $850,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for this new initiative that combines e...
CONTAINER volumes at Southampton docks have fallen 10 per cent thanks to the global downturn, reports The Daily Echo, adding that the recent collapse of major UK retailers add to the woes of the port, just renamed Dubai Ports World Southampton. "Container business is down 10 per cent in 2008 compared with 2007 and all the forecasts are that there will...
A deputation from Antwerp Port Authority led by port alderman Marc Van Peel will pay a working visit to India from 27 to 31 January. The delegation will among other things take part in the CTL Imex conference, the largest international transport and logistics exhibition in India, and will organise various port events. The aim of the mission is to further ...
Despite a dismal year in container volumes, the Port of Seattle said it set a grain export record during 2008, with shipments up 20 percent over 2007. The port moved 6.4 million metric tons of corn, sorghum and soybeans. Almost all of the grain handled by the port, which is grown in the Upper Midwest and arrive at the port via rail, is handled thro...
Officials at the Washington state Port of Vancouver on Wednesday finalized the $24.5 million purchase of a key parcel in the planned development of its Terminal 5 project. The 111-acre parcel, purchased from Evergreen Aluminum, is being funded by a $32.6 million bond issuance. The port also plans to close by late March on a $23.8 millio...
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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