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DP World, one of the world's largest port operators, said container volumes rose 14 percent last year fuelled by growth in Asia, Australia and the Americas, as well as the addition of new terminals, reported Reuters. DP World said it handled 49.6 million TEUs at its 50 terminals in 2010. In the fourth quarter, volumes rose nine percent. The company...
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government is looking in to the bids for construction of the country's first floating terminal for imported LNG. State-owned Petrobangla last week received proposals from 10 global firms to build the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Maiskhali island in the Bay of Bengal. Petrobangla official said the terminal should be ...
Melbourne: The Australian port of Melbourne posted record high trades in containers and new motor vehicles in 2010, as overall trade rose 13.2% year-on-year. The Port of Melbourne Corporation recorded 78.8m tonnes of trade in 2010, boosted by a record box throughput of 2.35m teu, up 12.6% over the previous year. The port's new motor vehicle trade also ...
THE PORT of Savannah had its best ever calendar year for containers, posting a 20 per cent year-on-year increase in 2010 to 2,826,308 TEU while retaining its position as America's fourth biggest box port, according to the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA). Counter-intuitively, export volume beat imports with a record 1,488,670 TEU, mostly in frozen poultry...
Container volumes across Europe ended the year on a high note with estimates for November 2010 reaching just over 3 million 20-foot equivalent units of containers and for 2011 growth in the high single digits, according to the Global Port Tracker. Volume increased nearly 10 percent over the same month the previous year, said Hackett Associates and t...
Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in Poland recently handled its first heavy cargo using its new Liebherr LHM-400 mobile harbor crane (MHC) from sister company Tartous International Container Terminal (TICT) in Tartous, Syria. The MHC took only 30 minutes to haul the 97.5 tons transformer, from unloading to transferring the cargo to a dedicated storage area...
Despite being overshadowed by the so-called "newcomer on the block", Vietnam, with an export potential to far outweigh any of the Asia-United States trade stalwarts, China is retaining its number one slot on a trade lane that is increasingly developing its various conduits. The top three lines, Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) and CMA-CGM have all ...
The ports of Bremerhaven and Rotterdam are cooperating in an agreement that will see dredged material (mainly silts) removed to improve water depths in key parts of Bremerhaven harbour deposited at an underwater disposal site near the Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam. The agreement between the port management company Bremenports and its partner organi...
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