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Konecranes Heavy Lifting Oy has signed a contract to deliver four RTG cranes for the new Russian cargo terminal Yanino Logistics Park Ltd. Yanino, a multipurpose logistics complex near St. Petersburg, belonging to Global Ports Investments Plc and Container Finance Ltd Oy. The 16-wheel RTG cranes have a capacity up to 50 metric tons and can stack container...
The Port of Tacoma Commission named Clare Petrich Commission President and elected officers for 2009. Positions among Commissioners rotate yearly, based on procedures approved by the Port Commission in 1999. Petrich replaces Port Commissioner Dick Marzano as Commission President. Marzano will serve as Assistant Secretary in 2009. Port of Tacoma Commis...
Gottwald Port Technology GmbH (Gottwald), a subsidiary of Demag Cranes AG, can look back on a successful 2008 despite the current downturn in the global economic environment. “In view of the overall difficult economic situation, we can be satisfied with our performance in 2008, said Dr. Robert Wassmer, Gottwald’s CEO. In the 2008 calendar year, we wer...
Container throughput at US ports fell by 4.7 per cent in 2008, as compared to 2007, with the sharpest decline recorded in the fourth quarter of 2008 at 7.3 per cent, when compared to the same quarter of 2007, according to Exim News Service. The results showed that container traffic decreased in 11 out of 12 months during 2008 when compared to 2007, re...
The Abidjan Port Authority has acquired a 4th postpanamax gantry crane for the Vridi container terminal. The US$8-million crane, purchashed by SETV (Societe d`Exploitation du Terminal de Vridi), was delivered from Shanghai and will take another month to secure before it is operational. The crane has a 50 tons capacity which can cater for larger ships of 4...
SEVENTY per cent of all Asia-origin containers bound for destinations in the US north east hinterland are now carried on all-water services to the east coast, says the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. This is a situation that the port authority is hoping to capitalise on, particularly as total volumes to the US are in decline. In a recen...
Bernard S. Groseclose Jr. abruptly resigned Tuesday as president of the South Carolina State Ports Authority amid growing criticism about the Port of Charleston losing ground to East Coast competitors. The state body said board member John F. Hassell will immediately take over as interim president while the board conducts a search for a permanent r...
The Port Authority of Guam and bulk cement provider Cementon Micronesia signed a lease Tuesday for a new bulk cement terminal at the commercial port of Guam. The new terminal, to be located on Golf Pier, will greatly increase the storage capacity of Cementon, which already operates one cement storage facility at the port. Both parties said 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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