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Workers at the Fos and Lavera oil terminals in the French port of Marseille have ended a 12-day strike that hampered operations at refineries in the region. Work will resume within hours after employees approved an agreement earlier today, the Port of Marseille said in a statement. Workers protesting the application of a new law on French port op...
Cargotec's Kalmar business area has received an order to supply 15 of its ESC W straddle carriers to DP World Southampton in the UK. Two of the machines will be fitted with Kalmar's new hybrid technology package and the remaining 13 are capable of being upgraded to hybrids in the future. Kalmar, which provides container handling solutions, will deliv...
In January-October 2008, oil export via the port of Primorsk grew by 1%, year-on-year, to 68.3 million tonnes. In the 11-month period, the port’s turnover of vessels amounted to 1,431 units. Spetsmornefteport “Primorsk” LLC (Leningrad Region, subsidiary of Transneft company) was put into operation on December 27, 2001 as the final stage of the fi...
Inland shipping operator Contargo plans to build a new hinterland terminal in the Valenciennes. The terminal will cover an area of 3 ha., with a gantry crane and two railway tracks stretching 350 metres. The trains will be handled using reach stackers. The terminal is needed because nearby Prouvy is reaching full capacity. In 2007, Prouvy handled...
In January-November 2008, the ports of Latvia handled 57.88 million tonnes of cargo (1.9%, year-on-year), RZD-Partner reports. In the reported period, transshipment of loose cargo grew by 15.7% to 27.448 million tonnes including 16.498 million tonnes of coal (+26.5%), 4.268 million tonnes of chemical cargo (-8%), 1.336 million tonnes of woodchips (-12...
COSCO Pacific's November throughput for container terminals showed that China's major ports continue to see limited growth while some medium-sized and niche ports are growing well in a down year. The terminal operator reported that throughput for its 20 terminals increased 8 percent in the month, compared with the same month in 2007. Highlig...
Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is seeking a multibillion-peso loan from France for the installation of modular roll-on, roll-off (RoRo) ports to link remote provinces and reduce the transport costs of goods. Oscar Sevilla, PPA general manager told reporters over the weekend that the agency has proposed an P11-billion loan from France to fund t...
Rio de Janeiro state said it will allow only two new iron-ore export ports to be set up in Sepetiba Bay for environmental reasons. “We're talking to investors on the possibility of combining nine existing project proposals into two,” a state spokesman, who declined to be identified, said in a telephone interview. Total export capacity for the two new...
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