Barge Terminal Born (BTB), the multimodal terminal for continental, deepsea and shortsea containers, is to increase its capacity to 300,000 teu a year. The €10m (US$13.4m) expansion was confirmed when the Waalhaven Group, the terminal owners, signed a rental agreement with the Municipality of Sittard-Geleen for the use of new port facilities in the...
Exactly two years to the date (November 24) of the flood at the APM Terminals (APMT) in the Port of Itajai, Brazil, the CSAV vessel “Hammonia Roma” arrived, starting the first operations at the newly constructed Berth No. 2. Part of CSAV's Marco Polo Service (Eastcoast of South America to Middle East), the vessel, with a length of 210 m, di...
THE Slovenian Port of Koper on the north Adriatic will be highlighted at this week's Amsterdam's Intermodal Europe conference on container logistics, highlighted as the fastest growing box port, up 40 per cent this year to 450,000 TEU. Toma Martin Jamnik vice president of Koper port management board will speak of the port's trajectory through investm...
THE Port of Melbourne set a national record with container traffic increasing 10.4 per cent in October year on year to 217,000 TEU, surpassing the August's record high of 210,985 TEU, reported the port authority. "By any measure, 2010 has seen an impressive trade performance, particularly the rebound in containers following the global financial crisis,...
South Korean port agents urged oil tankers and cargo vessels travelling near the maritime border with North Korea to take extra security precautions on Wednesday after Pyongyang's shelling of a South Korean island. Tuesday's attack on Yeonpyeong island, one of the heaviest since the Korean War ended in 1953, has not slowed shipping traffic along the c...
A Hamburg-based company intends to invest in the development of the port of Odessa $400 million. This was announced during a meeting of the first vice-mayor of Odessa Sergey Chernenko with German Ambassador to Ukraine Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth and the German Consul in Odessa Alexander Kifak, Glavred agency reports. Details of the port project were not specified...
SE Nikolayev Sea Commercial Port (Ukraine) and the port of Ghent (Belgium) signed today in Kiev a memorandum of cooperation in the framework of Ukrainian-Belgian business forum, the NSCP’s press service reports. According to head of NSCP Basil Ivaniuk, the agreement is a beginning of fruitful partnership between the Nikolaev port and the port of G...
Visakhapatnam Port is planning to develop a standby stream for iron ore exports. The project, to be executed on a public-private partnership basis, will involve an investment of about Rs 270 crore. Port sources said six major companies — Mundra port, GVK, Tecpro Systems, IL&FS Maritime, ABG-LDA and Vadinar — have evinced interest in taki...
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