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With good maintenance, structurally, a quayside gantry crane could remain in service for more than 40 years. But drive control systems are letting the team down, with a life expectancy of just 15 years. “After 15 years, evolving technology and diminishing spare parts support means that the overall performance of a drive is less than satisfactory to th...
SINGAPORE's Portek, terminal operator and provider of port equipment, increased net profit 21 per cent to S$7.3 million (US$5.68 million) in the first half of fiscal year 2011 ending December 31. Despite the impact of the strong Singapore dollar against the US dollar, especially felt in the port operations and management unit (POM), revenues across the g...
THE Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's largest container port, has added two berths in the first phase of its new container terminal with 16 metres alongside and capable of handling 12,500-TEU ships, up from its present 10,000-TEU limit. Phase one of the new International Container Terminal (ICT) consists of four berths overall and will be finished by 2013 as ...
SAFMARINE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the AP Moller-Maersk Group, is introducing a Far East-Indian Subcontinent service, the FMX, through a slot purchasing agreement with Simatech, the carrier operating the service that links ports in China and south east Asia to west India and Pakistan. The port rotation for the FMX service is: Xingang, Qingdao, Shangh...
Peruvian port workers have signed a labour accord to end a 21-day strike, according to Bloomberg. According to industry sources, the strike had blocked transportation of minerals and grains from the country’s largest shipping terminal. About 580 stevedores had started loading container ships in Lima’s port of Callao, which handles a third of P...
Cargo throughput of the Big Port St. Petersburg grew by 21.6% this January to 4,27 million tons, PortNews reports with reference to the Association of Sea Commercial Ports (ASOP). The port of St. Petersburg is located on the islands of the delta of the Neva river, in the Neva Bay, the eastern tip of the Gulf of Finland. The Big Port St. Petersburg terri...
Freight traffic passing via the port of Helsinki (Finland) in January increased by 9% from last year’s monthly volume, to 884,000 tons, the Port Authority said. These figures do not include shipments of containers and vehicles. The port's container trade in January was up 1% to 32,513 TEUs, Ro-Ro cargo volume increased by 15% to 37,506 units. Por...
An indefinite strike launched on February 2 by a section of private sector workers at the Kochi Port was withdrawn on Wednesday after an interim order from the High Court of Kerala, directing the Cochin Port Trust authorities to maintain the operations of Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal (RGCT) for three more months, reported The Hindu. Charles George, gen...
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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