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Chongqing builds new container terminal at Donggang Port AreaFeb 13, 2009

Southwestern China river port city Chongqing has started building a new box terminal at its Donggang Port Area, Xinhua reported. The new terminal will have 10 berths and occupy an area of eight square kilometres. It is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, 18 kilometres away from downtown and 16 kilometres away from Chon...

Remarkable progress in handling container trafficFeb 13, 2009

The New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) has shown a remarkable progress in handling container traffic. From just 8,943 TEUs handled in 2004-05, it handled 23,099 TEUs during the current financial year (up to December 2008), Exim News Service reported. As for raw cashew, the Port has handled 4,057 TEUs (80,666 tonnes) so far during the fiscal, as ...

BICT implemented Tideworks’ Spinnaker Planning Management System®Feb 13, 2009

Tideworks Technology®, Inc., a provider of full-service terminal management and planning software solutions, today announced that Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT), located in the Port of Batumi in Adjara, Georgia on the Black Sea, has successfully implemented Tideworks’ Spinnaker Planning Management System®. BICT is the second I...

Air quality improves significantly in latest studyFeb 13, 2009

A new air-quality analysis shows the ships, trains, trucks and other goods-movement machinery at the Port of Long Beach produced less pollution in 2007, the first year after the passage of the landmark Clean Air Action Plan. Despite a 9 percent increase in the amount of cargo moved, many major pollutants including diesel particulates were sig...

Gerd Drossel retiresFeb 13, 2009

After an active career spanning 47 years with Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), Executive Board member Gerd Drossel retired at the turn of the year. Having trained as a forwarding clerk, he has experienced the container era from the very beginning. “Today there can be only a handful of people in the world so extensively acquainted as Ge...

Top international architect Zaha Hadid to design new Port HouseJan 15, 2009

The future headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority will be designed by the London firm of Zaha Hadid Architects. The choice of architect was made at the Port Authority board meeting on 13 January. The new Port House will occupy the site of the technical services building on quay 63. The Port Authority aims to make its operations more efficient by centra...

Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co gets $100m crane orderJan 15, 2009

Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co will sign an agreement with Yang Ming Marine Transport Co soon to supply US$100 million worth of cranes to the Taiwanese shipper, Dow Jones reported. The cranes will be installed at Kaohsiung port. Shanghai is the world's biggest maker of cranes by production capacity. Yang Ming Marine is Taiwan's second-lar...

Long Beach port sees losses Lehman collapse Jan 15, 2009

California Sen. Diane Feinstein revealed last week that the Port of Long Beach lost nearly $12 million when investment firm Lehman Brothers Holdings collapsed late last year.    Feinstein made the revelation at the opening of the 111th Congress with the introduction of S.116, known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program Assistance for Local Govern...

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