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PORT of Shanghai's first terminal for both container and automobile ro-ro, the phase 6 project of the Waigaoqiao terminal, has started operation, Xinhua reported. The terminal is located at the estuary of the Yangtze River, adjacent to the Waigaoqiao phase 5 terminal in the northeast and the Shanghai Yangtze river tunnel and bridge. Covering an area of...
EAST China's Qingdao port moves 10.98 million TEU in the first 11 months, up 25.6 per cent year on year, reports Xinhua. The port's cargo throughput grew 10.6 per cent to 329 million tonnes during the same period. In November, it moved 1.08 million TEU and 30.21 million tonnes. In 2009, the port's cargo throughput ranked the world's top seven to...
EAST China's Shandong province posts 18 per cent growth in port throughput to 800 million tonnes in the first 11 months, reports Xinhua. Its container throughput grew 16 per cent to 13.95 million TEU during the same period with foreign trade cargo volume increased 17 per cent to 451 million tonnes. The province's three major ports like Qingdao, Ri...
PORT of Jiangyin has handled 406 Mainland-Taiwan direct shipping vessels with an aggregate cargo volume of over 1 million tonnes since launch of the first direct shipping service on January 25 2009, Xinhua reported. Jiangyin, a city in eastern China's Jiangsu province, is an important distribution hub for chemicals in China. Since commencement of cross...
India must upgrade and increase its port capacity three-fold to sustain its present high rate of growth, said Minister of Shipping Shri Wasan, IFW reports. He told delegates at the recent India Public Private Partnership Conclave in New Delhi that this year India’s major ports recorded utilisation rates of 90%, with some seeing 100% capacity utili...
The Indonesian government plans to complete the construction of 12 ports in 2011, which is 28 fewer than originally planned, according to local media reports. “This is so we can focus our efforts and use the available budget to the optimum,” Fadal Muhammed, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries told local media. According to media r...
NEARLY 100 mayors representing cities and towns across South Carolina are urging US President Obama in a letter to fund the next stage of a project to deepen Charleston's harbour to more than 45 feet amid expectations that the expansion of the Panama Canal will bring more large ships to the east coast. In the letter the 98 mayors asked President Obama ...
PORTSYNERGY shareholders CMA CGM and DP World have taken delivery of the first two gantry cranes for Terminal de la Mediterranee, their new container terminal at FOS 2XL which is scheduled to begin commercial operations in March. CMA CGM and DP World signed in 2006 an agreement with France's Grand Port Maritime de Marseille to build and operate a conta...
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