The Port of Felixstowe’s new state-of-the-art empty container handling fleet is up and running following completion of its commissioning period. The new fleet comprises 12 Empty Container Handlers, four Toplift Machines and one Reachstacker, all manufactured by Kalmar Industries of Sweden. Chris Lewis, Chief Executive Officer of Hutchison Ports (U...
In January-July, 2008, Kaliningrad Sea Fishing Port FSUE handled 1.975.6 million tonnes of cargo (+3%, year-on-year), the company informs. Transshipment of mineral fertilizers amounted to 250,300 tonnes +14%, transshipment of oil products down to 1.395.8 million tonnes (-1 % against the same period of the previous year). In the reported period the...
India Linx, the container train service operated by India Infrastructure and Logistics, a joint venture between Singapore-based APL and India’s HIPE, has expanded its operations to cover the Mundra port in Gujarat. According to The Hindu newspaper, the maiden run to Mundra took place recently from Loni railway terminal near New Delhi. The service on t...
Ports of Auckland today announced an after tax net profit of $21.1m for the year ended 30 June 2008. The Company’s 2007 net profit after tax of $64.6m (restated from $61.1m) included rental income from leases of the Western Reclamation property portfolio and a gain on the transfer of this property portfolio to Auckland Regional Holdings. Port oper...
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and the Port of Houston Authority (PHA) have announced a three-year renewal of their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which was first signed in 2003. The two entities will continue to conduct joint marketing, share information and bolster technological interchanges. One of the most vibrant and rapidly developing ...
Oil spill response workers serving the Port of Tacoma took to the picket lines Monday, accusing employer Marine Spill Response Corp. of illegal discrimination and intimidation because the workers unionized. The workers, which joined the International Longshore and Warehouse Union's Inlandboatsman Union of the Pacific in 2006, allege Herndon, Va.-based...
Gateway Terminals India (GTI) has ordered 11 E-One+ rubber-tired gantry cranes from Kalmar Industries to be used in the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru located at Nhava Sheva, India. Kalmar said the order, delivery of which will commence in January, follows on from a contract to supply GTI with 29 E-One RTGs delivered in 2006. GTI is a joint venture betw...
The French port's Fos Distriport logistics zone's 100-hectare extension will house an additional 400,000 square metres of warehousing and applications for the four plots of land are invited from major international players. The Port of Marseilles Authority (PMA) appeal will open by the autumn reported UK's Transport Intelligence, with successful tende...
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