New hub for Memphis

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Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and the City of Memphis, Tennessee, together with the Memphis & Shelby County Port Commission, have a...

AssiDom�n stays on the rails

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Leading Swedish paper and board manufacturer AssiDom�n decided last year to focus its continental European deliveries on rail using the ...

IEA looking east

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The Intermodal Equipment Alliance (IEA), an international grouping of intermodal equipment and container component suppliers formed last yea...

Abidjan extension

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As part of an Anglo Dutch consortium, P&O Nedlloyd (P&ON) has signed a 30-year concession agreement with the Ivory Coast Government to build...

Playing a new Piano

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Italy's new general transport plan (PGT Piano Generale dei Trasporti) allocates some Lit 13,000 bill annually for the next 10 years to devel...

Soton forges ahead

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Associated British Ports (ABP)'s Port of Southampton recorded growth in every major cargo sector in the first six months of 2000....

Big questions in the spreader industry

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During the past few months Partek Corporation has been steadily buying more shares in Zeteco AB, the parent company of both Bromma and SM Ze...

Nor-Plate take over

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0ydna Sagbruk A/S, a member of the Rosfjord Group and the biggest producer of Nordic hardwood in Norway, has taken over the production facil...

Vroom, vroom Ferrari

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CVS says that in the first six months of this year it supplied 50 machines to customers in China as well as receiving new orders in Taiwan, ...

Cuddalore shelved

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India's southern state of Tamil Nadu has decided to put on the back burner a plan to develop Cuddalore port into an all-weather facility, be...

Simon bags NLT

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Simon Storage Ltd, the UK operator of bulk liquid and gas storage terminals, has acquired Norman Lewis Tankers Ltd (NLT) of Goole in Yorkshi...

SA fires a warning shot

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In its annual review of worldwide operations, the Salvage Association (SA), the world's leading marine casualty surveying organisation, has ...

Terminal moves in the Plate

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As reported in last month's WorldCargo News (p6), not only has P&O Ports-backed TRP taken over a rival company, TPA (the Terminal 3 operator...

KCI in MARAD ship crane deal

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Hard on the heels of an order for 14 shipboard container cranes from Polish shipyard Stocznia Gdynia (see WorldCargo News August 2000, p2), ...

Hoyer TELs all

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Hoyer UK has been awarded a contract by Associated Octel to handle the latter's global tetra ethyl lead (TEL) tank container operations....

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