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From a negative growth rate in the first half of 2009-10 there has been a dramatic turnaround in major Indian ports' handling of container, coking coal and raw fertiliser during the second half even as the global economy is picking up from the financial meltdown, the Hindu Business Line reported. The 12 major ports handled 560.68 million tonnes of traffi...
Tideworks Technology has launched Intermodal Pro, a comprehensive terminal operating system (TOS) for intermodal terminals. The system includes intuitive graphical tools and flexible user-driven reporting, enabling more efficient loading and unloading of trains, whilst boosting productivity and reducing operational costs. As more intermodal terminal opera...
TRANSPACIFIC routes from Japan to US west coast will merge loops of "K" Line, a member of the CKYH Alliance, and MOL of New World Alliance on April 7 along with co-joining on the MOL-"K" Line service that links China and Japan with Pacific Northwest launching on April 8. The merged service known as CALCO-A by "K" Line, and three other names by CKYH carrie...
WHILE still posting the fastest growth in six years, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis has cut its estimate of the increase in American GDP in the fourth quarter from 5.9 per cent to 5.6 per cent. Business inventories fell by US$19.7 billion in the fourth quarter. Fast growth was attributed to a slowdown in liquidation of inventories during the fourth qu...
TNT HOAU, TNT's road distribution arm in China, has announced the completion of its nationwide day-definite road distribution network, Xinhua reported. During the past two months, TNT Hoau extended the coverage to Chengdu, Chongqing, Zhengzhou, Xian, Yantai and Xiamen. The company now offers guaranteed day-definite ground delivery to 26 of the biggest ci...
RUSSIAN agri-industrial exporter Sodrugestvo-Soya has conducted the first successful test of a single-box rail-to-ferry system near Kaliningrad, which, once operational, can save shippers up to 25 per cent on delivery costs. The test was conducted using four specialised containers provided by Transcontainer, each of which contained a meal-feed shipment. T...
BRAZILIAN ports and terminals operator Santos Brasil, in a filing with the country's Security and Exchange Commission, said that it would issue a dividend pay-out of BRL99 million (US$54.4 million). The disbursement was agreed upon at the company's recent general meeting, Dow Jones Newswires reported. Total payment will amount to BRL0.151 (eight cents) ...
RIVER ports in central China's Chongqing city registered a 1.6 per cent growth in throughput to 837,000 tonnes in the first two months with a value of US$950 million, up 31.7 per cent, reports Xinhua. The export volume increased 56.9 per cent to 225,000 tonnes while the imports fell 10.1 per cent to 612,000 tonnes. The export cargo value grew 43.1 per ce...
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