TRIAL operations have commenced at Phase II of Zhuhai International Container Terminals (Gaolan), or ZICT(G), across the line from Macau, with the docking of the 6,350-TEU APL New Jersey. "Hutchison Port Holdings has been investing in Zhuhai Port for over 15 years. From the opening of our joint-venture terminals in Jiuzhou and Gaolan Phase I, to the ...
SOCAR will build a new port in Georgia. It intends to build a new port on the Black Sea shore of Georgia from revenues from the operation of the SOCAR oil terminal in Georgian Kulevi, said the press service for SOCAR, noting that the development of the due project is currently being held. The new port will allow large tankers to be shipped offs...
Cargotec's Kalmar business area has been awarded a repeat order from Patrick Terminals to supply automatic straddle carriers to the Fisherman Islands terminal in Brisbane, Australia. The four new ESC350WA straddle carriers will be introduced into service in Brisbane before September 2009, taking the total number of Kalmar fully automated straddle carriers...
The Federal Maritime Commission has posed more questions about the Clean Trucks Program, delaying for at least another 45 days the nation's busiest seaports - the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles -- from collecting a fee needed to finance the replacement of thousands of polluting cargo trucks. Port of Long Beach officials on Thursday blasted the FM...
Cargotec’s Kalmar business area has received two orders to supply its E-One+ rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes to Terminal Darsena Toscana (Contshipitalia Group) operating in the Port of Livorno (Leghorn), Italy. The first order for two RTGs was placed during the second quarter and a subsequent order for four RTGs was placed during the third quarter 2008. ...
SHANGHAI's Yangshan port area recently celebrated the completion of its phase 3 expansion project, marking the completion of the development of north Yangshan port area, Xinhua reported. Phase 3 consists of seven berths of 70,000 to 100,000 tonnes, which can handle five million TEU a year and covers a quay length of 2,600 metres and a back up are...
On the day that the new 2009 timetable for rail transport starts, the Betuweroute (the freight railway line that runs from the port of Rotterdam to the German border -Zevenaar) will come a step closer to completion. The first electric trains left on 14 December, starting at 07.00 hrs, without problems; an important phase in the change to the port railway ...
SINGAPORE's government-owned port operator PSA International Pte Ltd has backed out of a INR130 million (US$2.7 million) deal to develop a container terminal at the port of Hazira in the state of Gujarat, on the west coast of India. PSA has told Shell that stiff commercial terms have rendered the project unviable, an unidentified source familiar ...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi