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Hapag-Lloyd has announced that with effect from March, it will alter its coverage from the Mediterranean to the US East Coast through a new cooperation agreement with Maersk Line’s MNX service, Exim News Service reports. The agreement with UASC’s MINA service would be discontinued as a result. The new port rotation will be as follows: Algeci...
Australian ports breathed a sigh of relief as they managed to escape with little damage from the passing of Cyclone Yasi. Hay Point and Mackay both confirmed they were open quite soon after the storm’s passing, and although Abbot Point appears to still be shut due to a power loss, this looks like being a short term problem. Originally, many held t...
No amount of green aspiration is going to halt the spiralling world demand for coal – and India is the one to watch. Felicity Landon reports The recent floods in Queensland certainly put pressure on Australia’s coal export industry. But much more dramatic drivers are shaping the world’s coal trades. Blaine Ouimette, an international de...
Terex Noell (China) has been awarded its largest overseas contract for two years with a US$20m order for the supply of five rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes for the new container terminal at Kattupalli Port, Chenai, India. The order was placed by India’s largest engineering and construction firm, Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T Shipbuilding), which ...
Sout Korean port's container throughput rose by 18.3% year-over-year to record 19.329 million TEUs (versus 6,341m TEU in 2009). This is a 7.8 percent gain from 2008’s figures, the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs press release said. Exports and imports increased by 18.9% to12.333 million TEUs, transshipment cargoes totaled 6....
Container throughput of Far terminals owned by FESCO Group in 2010 amounted to nearly 339,000 TEUs, Sergey Generalov, FESCO’s President said in an interview with PortNews. "Given our strategic plans for the development of container handling in Vladivostok, including the construction of the terminal ‘Russian Troika’, we expect that this f...
The Israeli port of Haifa has announced that it recorded its best ever year with regards to container handling in 2010, Portworld reports. The Mediterranean hub handled 1,263,552 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) over the calendar year. The number of containers handled represented a 1% increase over the previous record achieved in 2008, and a monume...
The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has announced plans to introduce a new port fee system this summer that will include turnover when calculating the port dues, Portworld reports. Up until now, port dues have solely been based on a ship's size. "In taking this step, the HPA is meeting the demand of shipping companies and ship brokers to use handling volumes...
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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