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The Mississippi State Port Authority on Friday approved a plan to expand the Port of Gulfport. While the expansion plan is still in the conceptual stage, Gulfport's mayor said in an interview with the Sun Herald newspaper that it was about the biggest thing that's happened in this city in last 100 years. Port officials believe Gulfport could event...
The Busan Port Authority said it will re-prioritize construction activity to cut costs in the wake of the ongoing global economic downturn. In a statement Friday, BPA said it will review construction expenses, which account for 56 percent of total expense and prioritize them from the stage of budget planning and get rid of the possibility of construct...
The Panama Canal experienced a slight dip in the amount of cargo passing through the strategic isthmus in the past year. Total tonnage declined 1.1 percent to 309.6 million tons compared to 312.9 million tons in fiscal year 2007, according to figures released by the Panama Canal Authority. In September, PCA Chief Executive Alberto Aleman Zubieta indi...
Subic Bay International Terminal Corp. (SBITC) and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) recently urged importers and exporters in Northern and Central Luzon in the Philippines to use the newly opened container terminal at the Subic Bay Freeport. We are inviting businesses and industries in the area to use the Subic container port. The strategi...
Ports in southern Europe are responding to the growing flow of goods by increasing their handling capacity. The ports of Koper in Slovenia and Evyap in Turkey are expanding their container handling capacity with Kalmar rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes. Cargotec's Kalmar business area has been awarded a contract to supply two E-One+ RTG cranes to Luka ...
The Canadian Auto Workers, which represents the unionized workers employed with the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp., ratified a three-year labor agreement on Oct. 22. The agreement, covering a period of April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2011, provides annual wage increases of 3 percent, 3 percent, and 3.25 percent, respectively, over the life of the con...
The Port of Antwerp said Thursday that container volume through the first three quarters of the year grew 9 percent over the same period in 2007, to 6.6 million TEUs. The port attributed much of the growth to its Deurganck dock facility, which saw a 30 percent increase in volume for the nine months of 2008, to 1.4 million TEUs. Overall freight ton...
Container traffic is slowing precipitously through South China, a point emphasized by statistics released Wednesday by the Guangzhou Port Group. GPG said its total throughput declined 3.6 percent in August and a further 5.4 percent in September, to 598,000 TEUs in September. Nearly 75 percent of GPG's volume comes from the mega-container terminals it ...
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