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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga this week threw out a Transport Ministry plan to sell the country’s main port, according to government sources. However, a World Bank report published last year expressed fears that the port was already operating at full capacity and that privatisation was the best route to boost cargo han...
A significant 86% of port consultants responding to the survey told the mooring specialist that they are under “some, significant or constant” pressure to prioritise green solutions. Richard Hepworth, managing director of Trelleborg Marine Systems, said: “The green lobby in the guise of legislators, carbon conscious clients and suppliers...
Logistics industry thought-leader Mark Millar argues that emissions from ports and ships exacerbate public health problems within the populations that support them and are a sustainability problem for many Asian ports. He specifically points to the South China and Ho Chi Minh City port clusters as being vulnerable to this. There is also a competitive issu...
The Federal Tariff Service (FTS of Russia) has approved the marginal rate of port charges for services provided by Federal State Unitary Enterprise Makhachkala Commercial Seaport in the port of Makhachkala, the FTS press service said. The new port charges rates come into effect in due course. Makhachkala is the Russian year-round navigable port, located o...
Shanghai International Port's joint venture with Belgium container terminal Zeebrugge has begun operations, a senior Chinese executive said on Saturday, following a delay during an industry downturn, Reuters reports. "The project had been postponed previously, but the venture is already up and running now," SIPG president Chen Wuyuan told Reuters ...
Forth Ports, the UK’s last listed ports group and owners of the Port of Tilbury in London and the Scottish ports of Leith, Dundee, Grangemouth and Rosyth, is poised to recommend a £746m (US$1.21 billion) takeover by Arcus European Infrastructure Fund (Arcus), its biggest shareholder, which already owns almost 23% of the Group. In an announcem...
Import cargo volume at United States’ major retail container ports is expected to be up 11 percent in March over the same month last year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. “These numbers show solid increases over last year and are evidence that our nati...
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reported that cargo volumes at the Port of New York and New Jersey rose 16 percent in 2010. The numbers are an encouraging sign of growth but still have not risen to the peak cargo container traffic levels reported in 2007 before the global economic downturn. During 2010, the Port of New York and New Jersey...
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