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The Port of Newcastle has ended 2008 by setting a new monthly record for coal exports, Ports and Waterways minister Joe Tripodi announced today. The December 2007 total of 8,548,813 tonnes of coal exported through the Port of Newcastle in New South Wales also beat the previous record set in December 2007 by nearly 165,000 tonnes. A Government spokesm...
ABG Kandla Container Terminal at Kandla Port ended calendar year 2008 on a high, registering its highest monthly throughput of 15,762 TEUs for the year in December through the handling of 23 vessels. According to a release, this was a 26 per cent growth over the throughput achieved in November 2008. The terminal’s overall volume for the year stood at...
A U.S. District Court judge denied a motion Jan. 8 for industry parties to file friends of the court briefs in a case in which the U.S. Federal Maritime Commissions is seeking a preliminary injunction against the truck concession programs proposed by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. U.S. District of Columbia Court Judge Richard J. Leon...
PSA International Pte Ltd (PSA) handled 63.2 million TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) of containers at its port projects around the world for the year ending 31 December 2008. This volume represented a growth of 7.3% over 2007, with PSA Singapore Terminals contributing 29.0 million TEUs (7.0% growth) and PSA’s terminals outside Singapore ...
Due to the uncertainty of the global materials handling equipment market and decline in demand, Cargotec has today announced the start of new employee cooperation negotiations about temporary layoffs, reductions and cost savings in its units in Raisio and Tampere in Finland. Cargotec plans to adjust the production capacity and operations mainly by planned...
THE Port of Xiamen's container volume came to five million TEU by December 27, up 10.3 per cent over the same period a year ago, Xinhua reported. From 2006 to 2008, Xiamen invested CNY8.2 billion (US$1.2 billion) on building new deep water berths and channels to enhance port facilities. The port has 37 berths that can handle 50,000-tonne vessels, 21 t...
Shanghai's container throughput was up in 2008, despite the onset of the global financial crisis. Figures released by the Chinese authorities showed throughput up 7% to 28 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units), making Shanghai the world’s busiest container port after Singapore. The rate of growth, however, was well down on the 20% see...
AFTER years of being silent among the other major US gateway ports, the Virginia Port Authority is now finding its voice, and it has plenty to talk about. One only needs to look at population growth distribution in the United States today to see that Virginia is conveniently located in one of the fastest growing regions in the US. Add to that, the U...
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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