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Kerry Siam Seaport announced it will open Thailand's largest privately-run deep-sea port at Laem Chabang by early next year, reports PortWorld. The port is 14.5 m. deep and will have 4 conventional terminals and 2 container terminals. It will be able to handle up to 4 mn tones of general cargo and up to 400 thousand TEU per year. Source: Seanews
The Port of Rotterdam, the largest container facility in Europe, increased its box throughput 13 percent after nine months of 2007 to 8.02 million TEUs. Rotterdam's total traffic for all types of commodities rose 6.2 percent to 301 million tons. Liquid bulk cargo was up 5.6 percent to 139.1 million tons. General cargo, including containers and roll-on/roll-...
Leading mainland port operator China Merchants Holdings (International) (0144), which has been increasing investment in large bulk cargo terminals, said it will develop a multi-purpose port at Ma Wan port zone in western Shenzhen. The company said the first of five berths will be built at a cost of 700 million yuan (HK$725 million). The port operator al...
A government proposal has pointed the most crucial ports for the trade and industry in Sweden. The intention is that these ports will be given priority to when decision will be taken on future infrastructure investments. The largest port in Scandinavia, the Port of Göteborg, has a natural position among the ten. One third of all cargo turnover in Sweden pass...
Port of Göteborg is working actively to limit its impact on the climate. An important method to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is to use so called Working Ecodrivning when driving working machines such as straddle trucks and forklifts, reach stackers and terminal tractors. Ecodriving is a way of planning driving and optimizing logistics in order to be able ...
It is planned to sign some contracts with investors on the development of the container terminals in the Bulgarian ports – Burgas and Varna - in 2008. This was announced by Alexandr Khadzhov, the expert of the state venture Port Infrastructure of the Bulgarian Ministry of transport, during the conference “BlackSeaForum 2007” in Novorossiysk. A.Khadzhov d...
On October, 19 President of Azerbaijan Iliycham Aliev signed the act on sea port building in Alayty (near Baku), reports Interfax-Azerbaijan. It is expected that the new port will help to increase cargo turnover, to improve ecological situation and to liquidate transport intensity in Baku. Due to this act, within the month executive authorities and t...
The captain of a treasure-hunting ship intercepted in a dispute over a 350 (m) million euro (500 (m) million US dollars) undersea find was released on Wednesday after being held overnight for questioning in a southern Spanish port city, his company said. Sterling Vorus was detained after his ship, the Odyssey Explorer, was seized on Tuesday as it sailed i...
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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