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Shenzhen Port, one of China's busiest ports, saw its container throughput in 2010 hit a record high of 22.51 million TEUs, 23.34 percent more than in 2009, according to the Transport Commission of Shenzhen Municipality. The 770,000 TEUs increase was the highest on record and reflected the eighth consecutive year that the port has maintained its position ...
Safmarine has enhanced its '225' fully-containerised service between South Africa and West Africa by connecting West Africa via Dakar and Algeciras. The new weekly service, with high reefer capacity, will operate six vessels of 1100 teu (nominal) with direct calls in Durban, Cape Town, Dakar (Senegal) and Algeciras (Spain). According to Safmarine Intra...
MISC Berhad has relaunched a service connecting Singapore, Haiphong and Davao, based loosely on its PFS service that was halted in March last year. That service called Singapore, Manila, General Santos, Davao and Singapore. The first sailing was on January 25 from Singapore with the 1,118-TEU Orinoco River, followed by the same-sized Vega Gotland. Both ...
Cargo demand will continue to improve during 2011 as the U.S. economy recovers, roughly in line with new vessel capacity entering the Asia-U.S. trade lane over that period. With a traditional third quarter peak season now considered likely, container lines in the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) say that additional ships now being delivered will u...
Flexi Narrow Aisle Ltd has announced a comprehensive partnership agreement for the distribution and support of its range of Flexi articulated forklift trucks in India. The partner company, Voltas, is one of the world's premier engineering solutions providers and a leading manufacturer and supplier of forklifts and other materials handling equipment in In...
Danish shipping company A P Moller-Maersk has signed one of its largest contracts ever, with the transportation and logistics company Kuehne + Nagel International, Danish business daily Borsen reported. The contract, valued at between US$639 million to $822 million, is for the shipping of goods. Borsen cited Danske Bank analyst Peter Rothausen as saying...
A week-long strike by private sector workers serving Kochi Port continued with a round of talks to settle the strike ending without resolving issues raised by the workers, reported The Hindu. A statement issued by the Port Trust said: “Although the port trust management made all sincere efforts to resolve the problems of those who would be losing th...
Nippon Yusen KK is expanding its car terminal business in emerging market economies, with China and India rapidly growing as automobile exporters, reported Nikkei. The shipping company engages in car terminal operations at nine ports worldwide. Those terminals handled 4.25 million vehicles in 2010, and Nippon Yusen aims to expand the figure to five millio...
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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