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Container terminals get some breathing room Oct 6, 2008

Drewry Shipping Consultants said its just-published annual review of global container ports finds the industry, which has worried for years about keeping up with demand, may have some breathing room. Over the past 18 months we have seen a large number of new container terminal development projects confirmed and this will have a positive impac...

SoCal ports see smooth launch of truck program Oct 6, 2008

The official launch of a trucking re-regulation program at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles appeared to go off without a hitch Wednesday, with trucks moving easily through terminal gates and even small hiccups in the plan predicted by the ports not materializing.Port of Long Beach Executive Director Richard Steinke, watching trucks enter the Long B...

Longview, Wash. port approves grain terminal rail line Oct 6, 2008

Commissioners at the Washington state Port of Longview voted unanimously Sept. 30 to authorize construction of a rail line to service a $150 million grain terminal being built at the port by private developers, according to the Daily News in Longview. Completing the rail line, considered a key component of the grain terminal project, would re...

Port of Houston awards contracts for container terminal study Oct 6, 2008

Port of Houston Authority commissioners this week awarded three professional service contracts for project outlines for a conceptual study for a new container facility on Pelican Island. Houston entered into an agreement with Galveston Wharves 2007 to formulate a master development plan for a container terminal on the island, saying the need for a new...

Russian port sees 19% TEU increase through three quarters Oct 6, 2008

The Moby Dik container terminal, in the Russian port of Kronshtadt near St. Petersburg, said it handled 171,300 TEUs through the first nine months of 2008, an 18.9 percent increase from the same period in 2007. In September, volume reached 22,600 TEUs, a nearly 20 percent increase from September 2007. Last year, the terminal handled 200,000 TEUs. ...

Australian maritime ID cards under the scanner Oct 6, 2008

More than 120 port workers have been denied maritime security identification cards to work in Australian ports because of criminal backgrounds, The Australian reported Friday. Last year, Australia implemented a system where dockworkers need ID cards to be allowed to work in ports. But a report by the newspaper earlier this week suggested that...

N.Y.-N.J. Port Authority approves lease with BMW in New Jersey Oct 6, 2008

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said its board on Thursday approved a lease with BMW of North America LLC for about 10 years for 10 acres of open area at the port authority's Auto Marine Terminal in Jersey City for the expansion of an existing vehicle processing center. The board also approved a supplemental agreement with BP Products No...

Malaysia's Petronas Dagangan in oil terminal JVSep 28, 2008

Malaysia's Petronas Dagangan , the retail arm of state oil company Petronas PETR.UL, said on Thursday it had taken up a stake in a petroleum storage terminal project in Sarawak on Borneo. The Malaysian firm said it would own 20 percent of a joint venture set up to undertake the Central Oil Distribution Terminal project, but it did not disclose financi...

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