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THE Port of Charleston ended the year with a 17 per cent increase in container volume of 793,090 TEU year on year following its 12th month of consecutive growth in December at 62,405 TEU announced the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA). During 2010, Charleston and Georgetown breakbulk tonnage increased by 27 per cent year-on-year with 876,852 t...
THE Port of Yibin's Zhicheng operations area, in southwestern Sichuan on Yangtze, has started trial operations, Xinhua reports. As one of the six major Yangtze River ports planned to be developed by the Chinese government, the Port of Yibin started construction in December 2008. The Zhicheng operations area is located at the Cuibo Port Area, which will b...
An agreement involving the Port of Long Beach and the Panama Canal Authority aims to open up new trade between the port, the Caribbean and South America's east coast. Although at present these routes don’t account for a large proportion of Long Beach's traffic, there are hopes that the Panama Canal’s increased capacity will help to put it on...
The first ship-to-shore cranes have been delivered to one of the Fos 2XL container terminals being developed at Marseilles Fos under public-private partnership. Two super post-Panamax gantries arrived on 20 December for the new terminal. This is due to start services in March under an operating concession granted to Port Synergy, a joint venture be...
Trade flows through the port of Klaipeda (Lithuania) in 2010 increased year-over-year by 10.9% to 31,27 million tons, the Klaipeda Port Authority said. The port’s container traffic amounted to 295,000 TEUs versus 248,000 TEUs in 2009. The port’s Ro-Ro terminal handled 228,700 tons of cargo, up 29% from 2009’s figures. State-run Port of...
AUSTRALIAN ports, railways and roads were closed last week across large swathes of Queensland as the worst floods for 50 years continued to cause transport chaos. Around 75 per cent of Queensland - an area larger than France and Germany combined - has been declared a disaster zone after a month of extreme rainfall, London's International Freighting Wee...
PORTS in south eastern China's Fujian province is expected to put up an extra capacity of 16 million TEU in terms of container and 250 million tonne in terms of overall tonnage in the next five years, Xinhua reports. During this period, the port of Xiamen and Meizhouwan will be developed into ports with throughput of over 200 million tonnes. Beside...
YANTAI, a port in eastern China's Shandong province, had handled 200 million tonnes of cargo as of December 14, becoming the 10th port in China that has a throughput of more than 200 million tonnes. The port's volume is estimated to hit 300 million tones by 2015, according to Xinhua. During the period from 2001 to 2005, Yantai invested CNY13 billion (...
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