Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) Logistics and EUKOR Car Carriers have opened a new car and RoRo terminal with capacity for up to 5000 cars in South Korea’s Pyeongtaek. The 50% joint venture terminal, Pyeongtaek International Ro-Ro Terminal (PIRT), Terminal No. 11, covers an area of 166,000 square metres and has a wharf length of 290 metres capab...
India's Hazira Port, a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell and French oil major Total, has drawn up a blueprint to develop its existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Hazira into a US$500-million multi-cargo port, the Economic Times reported. The project is expected to be operational in three to four years. The company has...
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has stated it is interested in spending US$2.04 billion on the construction of the Gabion Container Terminal (TPK), Belawan port, North Sumatra, Bisnis Indonesia reported. The project will make Belawan an international-scale hub port. One of the driving factors behind the decision is the port's proximity to ...
The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles last week submitted their response in a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court case seeking to block portions of the ports trucking re-regulation program that began Oct. 1. The 95-page filing was in response to an appeal by the American Trucking Associations requesting the Ninth Circuit overturn a lower district cour...
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach filed a joint response Saturday to a request in U.S. District Court by the Federal Maritime Commission to block certain portions of the ports' trucking re-regulation program. The FMC, which oversees U.S. ocean-borne international commerce, alleged in its request in the Washington, D.C. District Court that compon...
According to some major Chinese ports, though China's iron ore imports have decreased, for any single port, there is no momentum to cut handling cost since iron ore throughput still far surpasses designed capacity. The comment came in response to recent forecasts that Chinese ports intend to lower handling costs. Mr Sun Yufeng secretary to board chairman ...
Port of Los Angeles commissioners approved an environmental impact report for a $500 million oil terminal and pipeline project at the port. The five-acre import terminal project calls for the construction of a new petroleum products-dedicated wharf on the port's Pier 400, two 250,000-barrel-capacity storage tanks and a pipeline extension. Th...
Cargotec’s Kalmar business area has delivered four new ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and nine other new container handling machines to the Port of Vuosaari in Helsinki, Finland. This new equipment is being joined by other Kalmar machines that are being moved to Vuosaari from two existing smaller Helsinki ports and Port of Kotka, bringing the total fleet of K...
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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