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THE leading European Port of Rotterdam plans to put a further 11 quay container cranes into operation, to cope with the growth in box traffic in recent years, particularly in the trade with Asia which is set to surpass transpacific routes this year. Last year, the number of box cranes in operation at Rotterdam Port stood at 92, with the new cranes pu...
In January-May, the port of Riga handled 11.969 million tonnes of cargo (+15.7%, year-on-year), Interfax cites the port according to Gudok. In the reported period, the port handled 7.84 million tonnes of dry loose cargo (+31.5%) including 5.587 million tonnes of coal (+37.4%), 755,600 tonnes of chemical cargo (-2,1%), 373,200 tonnes of wood chips (+3.1...
United Company RusAl and Ust-Luga Company, which is building a sea merchant port at Ust-Luga in the Gulf of Finland outside St. Petersburg, signed a memorandum on implementing a project to build the terminals. The company will spend over $300 million on building two terminals to supply aluminum products and alumina to world markets, press center of Ust-Lu...
Major U.S. ports will in October see the first year-to-year rise in container imports since July 2007, according to the monthly Port Tracker report released Friday by the National Retail Federation and Global Insight. For April, the latest month for which numbers are available, inbound box volume at the U.S. ports surveyed by Port Tracker -- Los Angel...
The Port of Tacoma has dramatically scaled back its plans to build a major inland logistics center in Maytown due to vocal opposition from area residents, port officials said Thursday. Port officials have dropped plans to develop manufacturing facilities at the site, located about 30 miles southwest of the port, and now plan to use it primarily as a r...
Fraser Surrey Docks, a container and breakbulk terminal on the Fraser River in Vancouver, Canada, said Thursday that President and Chief Executive Officer Gino Crisanti will step down by the end of the year. Crisanti intends to rejoin Wesik Group from where he joined the terminal in 2006. Wesik operates IDC Distribution Services Ltd., the terminal's l...
The Port of Hueneme plans to install radioactive material monitors for cargo containers at the port by March 2009, federal officials said Thursday. The Hueneme project is part of a federal mandate to screen 100 percent of containers entering the United States by 2012. The federal government is picking up the $700,000 cost of the Hueneme installation. ...
PORTS in China lifted 39.7 million TEU from January to April, an increase of 17.4 per cent compared to the same period a year ago, Xinhua reported. In this total, 36.8 million TEU were handled by seaports, up 17.2 per cent. River ports handled 2.9 million TEU, up 19.5 per cent. Overall cargo tonnage cumulated to 1.9 billion tonnes, up 15.9 per c...
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