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CMA CGM has been selected by its hometown Port of Marseilles Authority as the winning bidder for a project to develop Europe's largest dry dock.The project will comprise two main parts. Firstly, the overhaul and development of ship repair operations of dock 10 so that it expands in length to 465 meters with 10 hectares of wharf area and a 17 meter draft; ...
COSCO Pacific, the terminal operating arm of COSCO Ocean Shipping Co., said Monday that March throughput at its 19 container terminals (16 of which are in China) grew nearly 27 percent to 3.7 million TEUs versus March 2007. Heading the growth was a near doubling of volume at COSCO's terminal in the northern Chinese port of Dalian, to 137,000 TEUs. The...
PSA Singapore Terminals, operators of the world's largest container transshipment hub, on Tuesday signed a contract for 79 rubber-tired gantry cranes from South Korea's Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction at a cost of S$160 million ($118 million). The RTGs, which are equipped with energy-saving devices to help reduce fuel usage, will be used at P...
The U.S. Coast Guard said a ship in the Port of Savannah broke loose from its mooring Sunday evening at the Garden City Terminal and struck another vessel. The CSCL Ningbo was moored at container berth eight when it broke free of its mooring and drifted downriver, striking the moored vessel Vecchio Bridge, causing it to partially break free from sever...
Horizon Lines Charles G. huck Raymond called for the creation of a national port plan would prioritize federal funding of port projects, such as dredging and inland infrastructure construction. Raymond, chief executive of the Charlotte, N.C.-based Jones Act carrier, said a strategic approach to port development within a national freight transportation...
The Port of Los Angeles has signed a three-year contract with Blue Bell, Penn.-based Unisys to provide a port-wide access control system to identify and allow access to federally credentialed workers. The contract is part of the federal government's Transportation Worker Identification Credential program, established by Congress in 2002 through the Ma...
Thamesport in the United Kingdom on April 8 took delivery of its seventh ship-to-shore gantry crane and eight rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs). The ship-to-shore gantry crane, manufactured by Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. (ZPMC), standing 72 meters tall, can handle containers stowed 21-wide, with the ability to twin-lift containers to a maximum capacity...
The tenders on privatisation Greece's two main ports will have been completed by July of the current year, PortWorld reports. It is said that the tenders are for management contracts for two of the three container facilities at Piraeus and for the entire container terminal in Thessaloniki. According to Merchant Marine Minister George Voulgarakis, “t...
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