With consolidated sales, including also sales by strategic participations totaling Euro 126.5 million, the duisport Group was almost able to double the prior year record results (Euro 64.1 million, plus 97 percent). In the traditional segments Infrastructure and Suprastructure as well as Transshipment and Logistics Services, the group of companies recorde...
Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH have identified Sub-Saharan Africa as a major market for the com-ing years, with massive potential arising as African countries up-grade their port facilities, either directly or through international partnerships, to meet the port demands of the next decades. In 2007 Liebherr set a new record by handing over 11 mobile harb...
British tourists have reported a 'Dunkirk spirit' on board a round-the-world cruise ship that has been detained in Portugal's Madeira Islands, leaving them stranded. The Van Gogh cruise shipThe Van Gogh, which has more than 400 people on board, was held on its last leg in the port of Funchal due to a row over the alleged debts of former operator...
The Port of Felixstowe welcomed the inaugural call of the largest vessel in the Turkon Line fleet on 29th March 2008, with the arrival of the 1,900-TEU Mukaddes Kalkavan. The 149m-long vessel is the first of four increased-capacity Turkon vessels destined to be in service by the end of the year. The new service will operate between the Turkish ports...
Hiab, the business area providing load handling solutions within Cargotec has concluded an agreement to acquire the majority of the operations of South African Bowman Cranes (Pty) Ltd, Hiab's long term agent in the region. The deal is subject to the approval of Competition Commission and other relevant authorities of South Africa. Hiab will together w...
Sri Lankan maritime officials are going back to the drawing board in their attempts to develop a fourth container terminal at the Port of Columbo. Tilak Collure, the South Asian nation's ports ministry secretary told Bloomberg Tuesday that it has scrapped bids for the fourth terminal, which would increase Columbo's capacity by more than 50 percent to ...
The construction unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Co. said it has signed an agreement to build a container terminal at the new Vung Tau deepwater port in the south of Vietnam. POSCO Engineering & Construction Co. said the deal was worth $112 million to build a terminal that's expected to handle 1.15 million TEUs a year, SeaTrade Asia reported. V...
Shanghai International Port (Group) Co, operator of the world's second-busiest container harbor, said profit rose 23 percent last year as China's rising trade boosted demand for sea cargo transport. Net income climbed to 3.64 billion yuan, or 0.17 yuan a share, from 2.97 billion yuan, or 0.14 yuan, a year earlier, the company said in a Shanghai Stock E...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi