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HONG KONG-based Singamas, the world's No 2 container manufacturer, is turning to the manufacture of housing and garbage containers and fish tanks in the face of the global downturn, reports Bloomberg. Singamas is offering US$30,000-$100,000 multi-box house kits with appliances and bathroom fittings while selling fish containers at $25,000 each and garbag...
PORTS in southwestern China's Guangxi region handled 13.4 million tonnes of cargo in July, increasing 28.6 per cent year on year. This is the second consecutive month that it posted a year-on-year increase in its port throughput, Xinhua reported. From January to July, these ports handled 78.6 million tonnes of cargo, up 6.1 per cent year on year. The s...
PORT of Qingdao has started a new way for ore transportation using containers, Xinhua reported. The new way, said to be able to reduce at least 20 per cent's cost for shippers, is now in smooth operation with a weekly loading volume of over 150 TEU, said the report without specifying what ore was being moved. Now the ore shipped via the port will be lo...
GLOBAL terminal operator DP World has announced the arrival of three new super postpanamax cranes from Shanghai to be installed at DP World's Jeddah South Container Terminal (JSCT). The Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry cranes can service ships with 22 or more boxes abeam and lift 65 tonnes each. The addition of these cranes to DP World Jeddah's seven ber...
Austal’s next generation 102-metre high speed trimaran has had its unique three-engine layout successfully installed ahead of the vessel’s launch next month. The vehicle-passenger ferry, which is being built at Austal’s Western Australian facilities and is currently available for purchase, is scheduled for completion by February 2010. U...
Hanjin Shipping announced that ZESCO (Zhejiang Eastern Shipyard Co., Ltd.), its ship repair yard, has received official approval from the Chinese government to repair foreign ships. According to Hanjin Shipping, ZESCO is located in Qushan Island of Zhejiang Province near Shanghai's Yang Shan Port. With the completion of phase-1, the yard sits on a land o...
SWISS logistics giant Panalpina has won additional freight business in key regions of Angola, Gabon, Libya, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan for a three-year period with one of the largest oil and gas drilling contractors KCA DEUTAG. The renewed partnership is based on "credibility, capability, and competence", said KCA DEUTAG materials and transport chief Frank...
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) panel has ruled that Brazil is warranted in taking US$147 in countervailing measures annually against the US after American subsidies had priced other producers out of the market US assistant Trade Representative Carol Guthrie said she was "pleased" that arbitrators had allowed Brazil less than the $4 billion in annual count...
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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