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DUBAI Port World is purchasing 87 sets of container cranes for US$343 million from port machinery supplier, Shanghai Zhenhua. The cranes are to be delivered between 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, according to a company statement filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The deal comes amid plans by international container terminal operator DP W...
THE Piraeus Port Authority in Greece is purchasing 10 straddle carriers for its new Pier I container terminal from Kalmar Industries, a member of the Cargotech Corporation for delivery in the first half of 2009. The order comprises five EDRIVE and ESC350 straddle carriers and five CSC350 machines, all of which can stack containers three high. The EDRI...
THE Port of Houston Authority (PHA) has been given the green light to proceed with a project to deepen and widen the Houston Ship Channel, after its Port Commission approved the awarding of a US$5 million, five-year service contract to TCB Inc/Gahagan & Bryant Associates, Inc. The joint venture will be responsible for the engineering work, design and ...
LABOUR talks have resumed in Vancouver, averting a January 2 strike threat that would have closed the Port of Vancouver and Prince Rupert, crippling Asia-Canada trade. But Vancouver truckers still threaten a strike vote later this month over objections to independent operators calling themselves employees of licensed corporate entities that they creat...
ISRAEL is considering closing Ashdod Port and divert ships to Haifa because of the risk of attacks from Gaza, 25 miles away, according to the daily Ma'ariv. A rocket struck open ground near Ashdod, an Israeli Army spokesman said, adding that this was longest range achieved by rockets from Gaza so far. It is understood that ships with berthing wind...
TIANJIN Port, the largest in north China, handled 354 million tons of cargo and as of last week in 2008 handled 19.7pc more containers in 2008 than in 2007 to total 8.5 million TEU, reported Xinhua. By the middle November, Tianjin had seen its cumulative container throughput reach 7.23 million TEU and overall cargo rise to 310 million tonnes, both fig...
VOLGA Logistics Organisation plans to invest in the construction of a deep-water port on Mudyug island, near Archangel on Russia's western arctic. The new port is expected to take five years to build at a cost of RUB50 billion (US$1.8 billion), with the federal budget providing RUB5 billion and private investors covering between RUB36 billion and RUB4...
ISRAEL is considering closing Ashdod Port and divert ships to Haifa because of the risk of attacks from Gaza, 25 miles away, according to the daily Ma'ariv. A rocket struck open ground near Ashdod, an Israeli Army spokesman said, adding that this was longest range achieved by rockets from Gaza so far. It is understood that ships with berthing wind...
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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