Kandla Port, the country’s No.1 Major Port, in keeping with its policy of developing and modernising its infrastructure, recently entered into agreements with three private entrepreneurs to develop facilities for handling dry cargo, at a cost of around Rs 400 crore, through public-private partnership, according to Exim News Service. For constructing...
Through its Dutch IT subsidiary TBA, Demag Cranes has acquired UK company DB Controls, based in Doncaster (South Yorkshire). According a Demag statement, DB Controls comes with software and consulting competence related to bulk materials automation and its customers include ports and terminal operators in UK, Asia and Africa, among others. For the future...
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), the country's largest container port, and Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT), India's oldest, will form a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to execute a long-delayed dredging programme to deepen the common shipping channel the two facilities use, reported the Mint. JNPT, which handles more than 60 percent of India's container ...
THE Port of Rotterdam has agreed under pressure to cut emission of various "harmful" substances by 2020, according to Hans Berkhuizen, director of Friends of the Earth Netherlands. The deal follows an agreement signed by the port authority and the Friends of the Earth to forestall the eco-group's plan of suing the port over building the new Maasvlakte 2 ...
Damco has opened a new office in Le Havre port in France, a development that gives it a good chance of competing against other freight forwarding companies in the area. The new office in Le Havre port is Damco’s third office in France aside from its main branch in Lezennes and Dunkerk. It started to operate 4 October and got off to a good start as it ...
According to the cargo handling turnover in the Eastern Baltic ports Klaipeda Seaport (Lithuania) in January registered the highest cargo handling turnover and outpaced not only the neighbouring Seaports of Riga and Ventspils but even the Joint Port of Tallinn. In January of 2011 Klaipeda Port handled 3,18 million tons of marine cargo, the overallcargo h...
The 100 years celebrations of Aviation Industry in India commenced in Delhi recently. On this occasion, India Post while acknowledging Air India’s support to the Indian Postal Department, released a special cover on February 18, 2011 at the international stamp exhibition, Indipex 2011, held at New Delhi. The exhibition was held from February 12, to Fe...
Boeing announced that Chile's LAN Airlines ordered three additional 767-300ER airplanes valued at $493 million at today's list prices. Today's order brings the total number of 767s ordered from LAN to 33. "This order for additional 767s builds on the long-standing relationship between Boeing and LAN," said Marlin Dailey, vice president of Sales & ...
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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