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Port of Tianjin’s area will reportedly be expanded to 100 square kilometres from the current 30 sq km by 2010, Exim News Service reported. The port is building several new terminals which comprises 22 berths of more than 10,000 tonnes with an aggregate capacity of 138 million tonnes. After these projects are finished, the port’s capacity will be raise...
Shanghai could well overtake Singapore as the world’s largest container port, with the former’s throughput expected to grow by 15 per cent in 2008, according to Exim News Service. According to Mr Chen Shuyuan, President of Shanghai International Port Group Co (SIPG), operator of China’s busiest container port, said throughput will exceed 30 million TE...
Four stowaways on a cargo ship managed to slip by guards at a Halifax marine terminal on Sunday and took a cab 60 miles to the city of Truro, Nova Scotia, before being captured. The Canadian Press quoted Laurie Gillmore, spokeswoman for the Canada Border Services Agency, as saying there was a good possibility the four men are Algerian, but they are st...
Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners will vote Thursday to approve the final component of a drayage re-regulation plan that seeks to eliminate independent owner-operators from the local port-servicing truck industry. The neighboring Port of Long Beach approved a similar component last month without calling for banning independent owner-operators ...
West Coast dockworkers and their industry employers begin formal contract negotiation Monday in San Francisco. The current six year-contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association expires July 1. Expectations are that the new contract will cover a three-year timeframe, more in keeping with contract...
Port of Oakland commissioners, after a year of soliciting input from port stakeholders, will consider adopting a major air quality plan Tuesday that will set specific pollution reduction attainment and timeline goals for the port. The Maritime Air Quality Improvement Plan and the Comprehensive Truck Management Plan will commit the port to three major ...
The Georgia Ports Authority said an upgrade of Container Berth 2 in Savannah, which involved installation of 300 electrified refrigerated cargo racks, and electrification of ship-to-shore cranes had been completed. The port now has 17 electric cranes. The $11.6 million project will increase capacity, improve efficiency and the environment, the port sa...
The Manatee County Port Authority accepted new master plan concepts at its Feb. 21st meeting presented by consultants after 17 months of work. The concepts include four alternatives with a maximum build out by 2038 projected to cost nearly $500 million. Funding for the master plan alternatives was not considered during the presentation, but it is exp...
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