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Russia's wheat export ban has led to a huge increase in US grain shipments and an unexpected bonanza for ports, particularly on the Western Seaboard. Washington, Oregon and Idaho expect a 17 percent increase in wheat production to more than eight million tonnes of wheat. Much of this will go through the Port of Portland, which has al-ready experienced an 1...
CUSTOMS of Suifenhe, a city on the Sino-Russian border in north eastern China's Heilongjiang province, handled 5.13 million tonnes of trade cargo from January to August, up 8.6 per cent year on year, while value of these cargo surged 67.4 per cent to US$1.6 billion, said Xinhua. Imported cargo weighted 4.77 million tonnes, up 6.7 per cent with their va...
THE famous crime-busting New York Waterfront Commission, since renamed the Waterfront Commission of New York and New Jersey, will be abolished if New Jersey state senator Raymond Lesniak's bill is passed, reports American Shipper. The body was brought into being in 1953 to fight the bribery and corruption on the raucous New York waterfront, inspiring t...
CONCERN is mounting over increasing Panama Canal tolls that may prompt carriers to avoid the waterway once the expansion programme to nearly double its capacity is completed in 2015. A string of toll hikes has signalled the canal authority's intention to maximise revenue instead of cargo volumes, Frank Harder, president of the Tioga Group, told the ann...
Tianjin Port Group handled cargo throughput of over 300 million tonnes for the year to October 1, 2010, 19 days earlier compared to last year, reported NewsTrak Daily. Tianjin Port handled cumulative cargo throughput of 1.7 billion tonnes during the 11th Five-year Plan period, doubling that in the 10th Five-year Plan. In 2009, it ranked as the fifth...
The volume of container cargo handled at South Korea's seaports rose to a record high for September, thanks to a rise in export and import traffic, according to Yonhap New Agency. The volume of containers handled reached 1.54 million TEUs last month, up 8.3 percent from a year earlier, according to the report by the Ministry of Land, Transport and Mari...
Gateway Distriparks' subsidiary, Gateway Distriparks (Kerala) Ltd (GDKL), has won a tender floated by Cochin Port Trust for a 2.58-hectare-plot in Vallarpadam on a 30-year lease, reported The Hindu. Six bidders were in the race for this prime site opposite the International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT). ICTT, operated by DP World, will be...
A new corner of England, all 60 acres of it so far, has risen out of the Thames Estuary in south Essex over the past six months — but the first sight of what is to become the US$2.39 billion London Gateway super port has yet to persuade Dubai Ports World to indicate when Europe's largest port and logistics development will be open for business. D...
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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