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The governor of East Java says the province will build four ports by 2013 – and promises that the province's output will soon top Jakarta's. The seaports will be built in Lamongan, Gresik, Probolinggo and Banyuwangi and were expected to increase provincial exports, which topped US$4.5 million in the first quarter of 2011, up 30.84 percent from $3....
Freight traffic volume passing via the port of Helsinki (Finland) in January-May 2011 increased by 12% from the same period a year before, to 4.3 million tons, the Port Authority statistics said. In May the port’s stevedores handled 944,000 tons, up 5% from last year’s figure. Handling of imports rose by 9% to 2,2 million tons, exports - by 3%...
GLOBAL Port Tracker expects a steady, but a less robust container volume growth through six northern European ports in the second half of 2011 after a disappointing first quarter. Moderate growth in container volumes across Europe was experienced in the beginning of the year continued in March, according to Hackett Associates and the Bremen Institute of S...
Construction of a controversial transhipment port in Van Phong, Vietnam has been halted for at least a year. "Construction will resume pending a decision by the Prime Minister", said Nguyen Ngoc Quy, director of the Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) Management Board of Marine Projects No 1, in charge of managing the project, was quoted as saying V...
International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has launched S$176.5m takeover bid for Singapore port operator and equipment supplier Portek. ICTSI which currently owns 4.82% of the Singapore-listed firm is offering S$1.20 per share a premium of 69% over the last traded price of Portek. “The acquisition of Portek is in line with ICTSI’s st...
Australia's Melbourne port will raise port fees and charges from 1 July as part of its cost recovery after completing a channel deepening project. Under Port of Melbourne Corporation's (PoMC) new tariff schedule, wharfage charges for twenty-foot containers will increase by A$1.70 to A$40.10 including goods and services tax (GST), while empty container cha...
Bromma has won orders for 50 spreaders for the Middle East, the majority of which are for 2nd generation all-electric spreaders. The largest order for 13 YSX40E all-electric yard spreaders is for Israel’s Haifa Port Authority: Other orders are for six similar models for DP World El Sokhna in Egypt; five for APM Terminal in Salalah, Oman; five for S...
NORTH China's port city Tianjin has already had 20 "dry port" projects in 20 hinterland cities in 12 provinces, including those in operation and being built, Xinhua reports. "Dry port" is a facility that a sea port builds in a hinterland city to collect cargo. It offers greater convenience for shippers in the hinterland region while expanding the sea po...
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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