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Australian Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Anthony Albanese has said his new National Ports Strategy is a blueprint for the future that will address the bottlenecks which have hampered competition and growth. Mr Albanese said that for too long, Australian freight infrastructure planning has been conducted in isolation and sometimes even ...
The South African Shippers Council said that despite the Ports Regulator of SA restricting the National Port Authority’s tariff hike to 4.49 percent in the 2011-12 financial year, it still regarded it as too high a charge for cargo dues, reported Business Day. “We are disappointed by the percentage as we would have preferred a zero increase, b...
THE French dockers union, Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT), ended one strike and started planning the next after the government refused to accept its proposals for retirement pensions for 5,000-6,000 longshoremen who have reached the age of 58. Dock unions are planning more four-day strikes, which have crippled cargo movement at Marseilles and Le H...
NORTH Europe container volumes are estimated to exceed three million TEU in November 2010 and high single-digit growth is projected for 2011, according to the Global Port Tracker. Container volume increased 10 per cent in November 2010 year on year, including an estimated 1.73 million imported TEU, up 12.6 per cent, and 1.29 million exported TEU, up 6.2 p...
Australia's Gladstone Ports Corporation said on Tuesday it will export 500,000 tonnes of coal this week, nearly half of its usual capacity, after weeks of operating well below capacity due to flooding in Queensland, Reuters reports. "By the end of next week we expect our stockpile to be over the million tonne mark and increasing," Leo Zussino, Gladston...
French ports are expected to return to normal working hours from tomorrow, Portworld reports. Co-ordinated walkouts by crane drivers and dockworkers caused a number of disruptions at French maritime hubs, including leading box port Le Havre, and at Marseille-Fos. A resolution has not yet been reached, however negotiations between port employers and the ...
Abu Dhabi's Mina Zayed port handled 518,000 TEUs, up two percent over the previous year, reported Reuters. The CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports Company, Tony Douglas, said Mina Zayed's operations would move to the new Khalifa Port in the fourth quarter of 2012. "Ninety-five percent of containers that come to Mina Zayed stays in Abu Dhabi, it is a destinatio...
The Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) has amended the timeline for construction of a new container terminal in North Jacksonville for Hanjin Shipping of South Korea. The schedule adjustment will permit enough time for improvement of the Jacksonville harbour to a post-panamax depth, accommodating passage of the larger container vessels Hanjin and its...
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