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The Shekou Container Terminal, one of the facilities that make up the Port of Shenzhen, saw a 24 percent increase in container volume in 2008, according to port statistics released Monday. SCT hit its 2008 goal of 4.1 million TEUs on Dec. 30, helped by its newest berth, which opened in September and added 700,000 TEUs of annual capacity to the...
Hutchison Port Holdings on Monday refuted comments from Ecuador President Rafael Correa over the weekend that the Hong Kong-based terminal operator wasn't meeting development goals at a container terminal in the Port of Manta. International press agencies quoted Correa as saying he would kick Hutchison out of the country for lagging behind on...
Indian ports saw a 30 percent dip in container trade in the last three months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007, according to a report in the Hindu Business Line Monday. Evidence of the slowdown can be seen in the yards of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port, where only about 2,000 containers are stored compared to the usual 5,000 to 6,000. ...
The Port of Montreal said it handled about 1.46 million TEUs in 2008, 7.2 percent more than 2007. Patrice M. Pelletier, president and chief executive officer of the Montreal Port Authority, said it was an exceptional result in light of the economic slowdown that affected the port in the last two months of 2008. Total traffic at the port will b...
NEAR stagnant growth in container volumes in the second half of 2008 have led the authorities at port of Rotterdam to scale down estimates for last year's annual growth to as low as four per cent. Mr Emile Hoogsteden, director of containers and general cargo for the Rotterdam Port Authority told The Container Shipping Manager, "the first half-year was...
SHENZHEN's Shekou Container Terminal hit its annual throughput target of 4.1 million TEU, marking 24 per cent year-on-year increase in 2008. SCT earlier took delivery of six new electricity-driven rubber tyre gantry cranes for its new No 8 berth, marking the arrival of the last of 10 new cranes. The No 8 berth, which commenced operation in Septemb...
THE new penalty charge of US$40 per TEU and $80 per FEU will be imposed on cargo owners if their containers stay longer than 21 days on the Dar-es-Salaam docks, the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) has announced, reports Dar's Citizen Daily. TPA spokesman Peter Millanzi said port charges would be levied from January 15 alongside a container auctioning s...
OPERATIONS have become unviable at India's fourth biggest container terminal at the Tuticorin port in Tamil Nadu after the regulator slashed tariffs for services, said port operator PSA-Sical Terminals Ltd. Revenue earned after the latest tariff cut would not be sufficient to cover operating expenses and royalty payments to the government-owned port, ...
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