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Shanghai Port posted a new monthly container throughput record for January, reported China Knowledge Press. Shanghai Port, China's biggest port, handled 2.7 million TEUs in January, up 21 percent from a year earlier. The figure was higher than the last record of 2.64 million TEUs last August. (Source:http://www.cargonewsasia.com)
ICTSI Oregon, a subsidiary of Philippines port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc, has taken over operation of the Port of Portland’s Terminal 6, ushering in a new era of management at the Columbia River’s only deep-draft container terminal. Under a 25-year lease to operate Terminal 6 container and breakbulk facilities, the...
US plane maker Boeing has started production at its defence assembly plant at the former warehouse of MidAmerica St Louis Airport based on the Illinois side of the Mississippi. The manufacturing plant covers 4,645 square metres and will employ 75 by mid-2012. The start-up phase employs 14, with plans to double by second quarter for assembly and sub-assemb...
US IMPORT cargo volume through US container ports will rise 11 per cent during February year on year, six per cent in the first half and seven to eight per cent for the full year, according to the Global Port Tracker report commissioned by National Retail Federation. "While high unemployment and rising commodity prices are cause for concern, retailers are...
Smiths Detection, Lufthansa Cargo and Covenant Aviation Security have teamed up to provide an all-in-one security solution for the freight forwarding, air cargo, shipping and logistics industry in the US, Exim News Service reports. The security solution has been approved by the US Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administrat...
TBA has recently taken its professional set up and told a number of port executives to “go play” in an interesting team-based game, a challenge that is designed to show up the holes in efficiency. Based around the arrival of a ship needing 600 load and discharge moves, operations have to be planned and executed, right down to yard space and eq...
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to be up 11 percent in February over the same month last year and the first half of 2011 should be up six percent over the same period in 2010, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. &ldq...
There is confusion at the port of Mombasa following a threat by Dock Workers Union to stop privatisation and concessioning of cargo handling operations of berths 11 to 14, reported All Africa. This comes in the wake of a World Bank report which warned that the facility would not be able to handle the volumes of imports due to its size. Maritime analysts...
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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