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Officials at the Suez Canal Container Terminal said the terminal has passed the 2 million TEU mark for the first time. SCCT is in the Egyptian port of Said and sits at the Mediterranean entrance of the canal. The port primarily handles transshipment cargo. The terminal has a design capacity for 2.5 million TEUs, but can be expanded to 5 million TEUs. ...
Dubai-based terminal operator Dubai Ports World said Tuesday its container volume through the first nine months of 2008 has grown 16 percent over the same period in 2007. The company, which wholly or majority owns 26 terminals worldwide, did not release volume data either in total or for individual terminals. Its flagship facility is the Jebel Ali...
An APM Terminals facility in the Indian state of Gujarat will spend about $50 million to dredge its berth to from 12.5 meters to 14.5 meters to handle larger ships. The dredging at the Port of Pipavav, one of two private container ports in Gujarat, is expected to be complete by mid-2009, according to a report by Exim News Service. The port is also bui...
A plan by two developers to build a 40-foot-tall deck over a Port of San Diego marine terminal was soundly defeated by San Diego voters Tuesday. Proposition B, which would have amended the port's master plan to allow construction of the $800 million platform over the port's 96-acre 10th Avenue Marine Terminal, was rejected by more than 70 percent of t...
The Washington state Supreme Court ruled Friday to deny a motion by Port of Seattle commissioner Pat Davis requesting the court to reverse its earlier decision to allow a recall effort against Davis.The court's terse one-sentence ruling ends what may be the last hurdle before activist Chris Clifford can move forward with his attempt to put Davis tenure to...
Tax payments of OJSC «Sea port of St. Petersburg» amounted RUR 777 mln in January-September 2008, the company’s press-service informs. Within the three quarters of 2008 RUR 264 mln were paid to the local budget and RUR 513 mln - to the federal budget. The average wages of workers of the group of companies OJSC «Sea port of St. Petersburg» increas...
Kenya Port Authority unexpectedly cancelled a tender for a second grain handler at the port of Mombasa just three days before the bidding deadline. The withdrawal was ordered by the country’s Transport Ministry, after the Prime Minister claimed that a second grain handling facility might undermine investor confidence. Grain Bulk Handlers Limited h...
A Hutchison Port Holdings-backed terminal on the west side of the Pearl River Delta is ready to open its first phase by the end of the year after it received a second delivery of quay cranes and rubber-tire gantry cranes last week. The Zhuhai International Container Terminal, located on the far south end of the western PRD, near Macau, now has four po...
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