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THE Port of Tacoma expects to report a decline in annual throughput for 2008, but has still managed to gain market share against its west coast rivals. Evidence of this came in the latter half of the year, as Tacoma recorded a two per cent decline in throughput for the January to September period, while other west coast ports were down a collecti...
For Vopak, the year 2008 has evolved according to the pusued objectives for growth. The company has increased the global storage capacity with 23% to around 27 million cubic meter, whereby a continued high occupancy rate has been realized. The financial statements have not yet been assembled in detail and have not yet been verified by the auditor. The exp...
Cargotec plans to make its operations in Southern Sweden (Smaland region) more efficient by reorganising and transferring a majority of its business area Kalmar's operations in Ljungby to its Lidhult facility, located approximately 40 kilometres west of Ljungby. The reorganisation would affect personnel working in the areas of development (R&D), technolog...
Gangavaram port will soon start handling iron ore for export. Initially, two rakes of ore for exports are slated to arrive at the port every day, according to a spokesman for the East Coast Railway. Initially, the handling of the ore will be done manually as the mechanical facility, particularly the tippler, is not yet ready for operation. It may ...
2008 marked a record year for the Rostock ports with a total cargo throughput volume of 28.6 million tons (gross), up 400,000 tons from the previous year. The Rostock Seaport accounted for 27.2 million tons of this total, while the remaining 1.4 million tons of cargo was moved through Rostock’s additional port facilities such as the chemicals port, and th...
Taiwan's Port of Taipei is planning a $558 million expansion over eight years, creating an alternative to existing major ports as trade with China is expected to boom, an official said on Friday. The expansion, occuring in at least three phases, will raise the port's profile but not likely rival the island's No. 1 port in Kaohsiung, which handles abo...
Coal exports from Australia's Hay Point port, one of the world's busiest coal terminals, fell 24 percent in December as steel mills in Asia ordered less coal amid a global economic slowdown. Figures from the port operator's Web site showed Hay Point, located in the northeastern state of Queensland, exported 2.57 million tonnes of coal, down from 3.38...
In 2008, Kaliningrad Sea Fishing Port handled 3.144 million tonnes of cargo (-3.1%, year-on-year), Interfax cites the company representative according to Gudok. In the reported period, transshipment of oil products fell by 11% to 2.142 million tonnes while transshipment of general cargo increased by 17% to 1 million tonnes. Kaliningrad Sea Fishing P...
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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