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A group including Hutchison Port and Greek pharmaceuticals group Alapis made the highest bid to run and upgrade cargo facilities at Greece's Thessaloniki Port, the government said on Tuesday. Greece launched a tender earlier this year to sell and modernise outdated port facilities at the Northern city of Thessaloniki and Piraeus Port, which serves the...
The Panama Canal Authority and the South Carolina State Ports Authority, which owns and operates the Port of Charleston, have formally renewed a memorandum of understanding for three years, a move intended to help the two entities increase cooperation and information sharing. The ACP and the SCSPA will collaborate on joint marketing efforts, exchange...
Metro Ports, a provider of stevedoring, terminal services and warehousing, said it reached a five-year contract with the Port of San Francisco to manage its Pier 80 breakbulk terminal. Last year the facility handled 160,000 metric tons of cargo such as steel coils, yachts, lumber, and newsprint. Metro, the operating company of Nautilus International ...
Traffic at India's 12 biggest government-owned ports has increased nearly 9 percent by tonnage in the first quarter of the 2008-09 fiscal year, according to the Economic Times. Jawaharlal Nehru Port, near Mumbai, has seen the biggest rise, at almost 19 percent. JNP is the busiest container port in India, but only the third-largest in terms of total to...
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is asking the Department of Homeland Security to abandon its attempt to divert money intended to help five ports participate in a technology pilot program for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential. The biometric ID cards are being issued to dockworkers and other enrollees, but automated scann...
Conflicting reports have emerged this week from India on whether the country will ban terminal operators from Dubai, Hong Kong, China and Pakistan over security concerns, but shipping ministry and Dubai Ports World officials have said the country has no such plans. On Monday, the Economic Times, using an unnamed source, reported that India intends to...
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has turned its political and financial pressure toward the Bay Area as part of a union goal to organize drayage drivers at the nation's ports. The union staged a rally Tuesday at the Port of Oakland aimed at pressuring port officials to adopt a trucking plan that would eliminate independent owner-operators fr...
A consortium including Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa's ports unit and Greek pharmaceutical group Alapis SA offered the highest bid to manage and develop container terminal operations in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest port, Dow Jones reports. According to press reports the joint offer totaled US$4.9 billion. Other bidders for the port includ...
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