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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has urged the Federal Maritime Commission to allow an antitrust agreement between the Southern California ports and marine terminal operators to move forward. The agreement, filed by officials of the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports in February, would allow the ports and marine terminal operators to discuss provisions a...
U.K.-based PD Ports has appointed Frans Calje to the newly created position of key projects director. Calje, a Dutch national, was general manager of project implementation and business development at A.P. Moller - Maersk's container terminals arm APM Terminals, headquartered in the Hague, Netherlands. He worked on APMT's 420 million euros bid for the...
Kalmar Industries has won a contract from Transnet Port Terminals of South Africa to supply 30 straddle carriers for its operations at Durban Container Terminal, the country's busiest terminal. The machines will be delivered starting in July, with the final units arriving January 2009. Rapid growth of cargo volumes at the Port of Durban have force...
Philippine terminal operator International Container Terminal Services has appointed Maritel Abad Santos as business development manager. Abad Santos had been the administration manager for ICTSI since 1998. She joined ICTSI in 1994 as executive assistant to the executive vice president. Source: American Shipper
Traffic at the nation's major retail container ports will grow steadily this summer, but will nonetheless remain at or below last year's levels because of the nation's economic slowdown, according to the monthly Port Tracker report released Wednesday by the National Retail Federation and the economic forecasting firm Global Insight. Import container t...
France's Marseilles-Fos port handled 24.3 million tons in the first three months of this year, a 12 percent year-on-year rise driven by increased container and oil volumes. Container tonnage in the quarter was up 13 percent at 2.6 million tons, and 15 percent in unit terms at 260,484 TEUs. East/west traffic via Fos logged a 19 percent rise to 186,911 ...
The French Port of Dunkirk reported a 20 percent year-on-year jump in cargo during April to 5.3 million tons. After four months of 2008, the port handled 19 million tons, up 3 percent against the same period last year. Source: American Shipper
Container handling at Abu Dhabi ports rose by 34 per cent in 2007 compared to the previous year and the amount of goods coming into the emirate surged 17 per cent. Of the growing number of imported goods, vehicles topped the list with a 20 per cent increase over 2006. Chief Executive Officer of Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) Mohammed Abdulaziz Al Man...
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.
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