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Petrolesport completes another step of terminal developmentJan 22, 2009

In accordance with its development program, OJSC Petrolesport (Russia) has today commissioned an additional storage yard facility of 5 hectares capable of handling any kind of cargo. The new facility is located at Baltpole (Volny Island) at the site of a former scrap metal yard and can store up to 4,000 TEU of containers. In order to efficiently handl...

China United Lines launches maiden voyageJan 22, 2009

On 18 January, a ceremony that celebrated the launching of the first cross-strait service to call at Shantou Port was held at Shantou International Container Terminals (SICT). At 4:00pm, the 599-TEU MV Far East Cheer of China United Lines Limited departed from SICT directly for Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The service will call at SICT every Sunday, with a port...

Container traffic up 10% at AmsterdamJan 22, 2009

Container traffic in the Port of Amsterdam increased by more than 10 percent in 2008 from the previous year, easily outpacing growth at its much larger neighbors Antwerp and Rotterdam, but still falling short of target, joc.com informs. The second-largest Dutch port handled 424,880 TEUs, up 10.2 percent on 385,603 TEUs in 2007. Antwerp’s box volume ga...

Throughput of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port up 2.8% to 81.6 mln t Jan 22, 2009

PJSC Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port announces its consolidated operating results for 2008. Cargo turnover of the Group grew to 81.6 million tonnes – by 2.8% or by 2.2 million tonnes from 2007, the company reports. Container traffic still leads the growth, reaching 381 000 TEU which is up 46% or 120,000 TEU from 2007. Container handling at PJSC NCSP a...

Kolkata port identifies new locations for additional cargo handling Jan 22, 2009

The Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) has identified new locations along the Hooghly River for creating additional cargo handling facilities. “The proposed facilities will be created on the river front to avoid the problems currently being experienced in the existing berths within the impounded dock system”, Dr A.K. Chanda, Chairman of KoPT, told Business Li...

Suez terminal volume up 34 percent in 2008Jan 21, 2009

The Suez Canal Container Terminal said throughput grew 34 percent in 2008. Container traffic totaled 2.4 million TEUs at the Port Said terminal, which is operated by APM Terminals under a 30-year lease. That accounted for around 20 percent of transshipment traffic in the East Mediterranean and Black Sea markets. The terminal stated that throughput ha...

Guam cranes to arrive mid-February Jan 21, 2009

Three gantry cranes headed for the commercial port of Guam are expected to arrive in mid-February and be operational by April 1.    Jones Act carriers Horizon Lines and Matson Navigation, which deliver a combined 80 percent of the containerized goods to the Pacific island nation, purchased the used cranes from the Port of Los Angeles last year.   ...

Longview port eminent domain appealed Jan 21, 2009

Port of Longview officials warn that an appeal of a Washington state Superior Court eminent domain ruling could delay construction of a proposed grain elevator at the port by up to two years.    In December, the court ruled that the $150 million grain elevator project met the “public use” and “public necessity” criteria for the port to invoke emi...

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