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In 2010, throughput in the Swiss Rhine ports slightly rose with 1.2% to 6.5 million tonnes. Containers were the growth sector with as compared to 2009, +27% to 99,000 TEU, Portofrotterdam reports. 2007 remains the record year with 104,000 TEU. The largest goods categories crude oil end oil products declines 12%, or 380,000 tonnes. Especially light fuel oil ...
Toll Group has agreed to acquire Mitchell Corp, a major supplier of transport and logistics services to and from mining sites in Western Australia, for A$110 million, Eyefortransport reports. The acquisition is subject to clearance by the competition regulator. Mitchells provides transport services in the bulk resources, hydrocarbons and dangerous goods m...
Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK AG) is listed among the new investors of the port of Ust-Luga (Leningrad region), Vice-Premier Sergey Ivanov said in an interview with journalists at the end of the workshop in the port of Ust-Luga, PortNews reported. According to information obtained by PortNews, the new coal terminal’s projected capacity could be...
Albert Vygovsky took over the office Managing Director of OJSC North-West Shipping Company (NWSC) as of March 15, 2011. The appointment has been confirmed by Mr. Vygovsky in an interview with PortNews. The former head of NWSC Konstantin Palnikov resigned. Albert Vygovsky, is a graduate of the Institute of Water Transport Engineers (Nizhny Novgorod),majori...
NAVILAND Cargo, a subsidiary of the SNCF Geodis group, and Port of Le Havre rail network owner GPMH have launched a new international rail service linking the French port with the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in south-west Germany via Strasbourg. This new Le Havre-Ludwigshafen express rail link is designed for the shipping sector as well as companies in...
THE Port of New York and New Jersey has posted a 16 per cent year-on-year container volume to 5,292,020 TEU in 2010, up from the 4,561,527 TEU handled in 2009. Loaded containers amounted to 4,097,420 TEU, with loaded imports totalling 2,579,093 TEU with exports coming to 1,518,327 TEU. Imports grew 14.9 per cent over 2009's volume, while exports were up...
SOUTHEAST China's Qinzhou port registered a 45 per cent growth in throughput to 3.44 million tonnes in January, a record monthly high, reports Xinhua. The port's container movement increased 55 per cent to 42,196 TEU in January. Qinzhou port, acting as the most convenient gateway linking to the ASEAN, plans to increase capacity of 6.5 million tonnes ...
SHIPPING company employees are making it in to work in tsunami-stricken Japan only to find there is little to do when they get there. "The phones aren't ringing," Tim Smith, Maersk's North Asia chief, told the New York Times from his Hong Kong office, adding that only a third of Maersk's employees in Japan made it in to work because trains were not run...
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
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