ICTSI in demand
NewsManila-based International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has received offers from unnamed foreign groups to buy part or all of its...
P&ON nets Harrison
NewsP&O Nedlloyd has reached agreement with The Charente Steamship Co Ltd to acquire the liner trading business interests of Thos & Jas Harrison...
More money for Queensland rail
NewsMore than A$80 mill in extra funding has been allocated by the Queensland Government to rail track improvements between Rockhampton and Cair...
Abidjan extension
NewsAs 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...
IEA looking east
NewsThe Intermodal Equipment Alliance (IEA), an international grouping of intermodal equipment and container component suppliers formed last yea...
SA fires a warning shot
NewsIn its annual review of worldwide operations, the Salvage Association (SA), the world's leading marine casualty surveying organisation, has ...
Terminal moves in the Plate
NewsAs 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
NewsHard 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
NewsHoyer UK has been awarded a contract by Associated Octel to handle the latter's global tetra ethyl lead (TEL) tank container operations....
US domcons – domesticated or still wild?
NewsOngoing differences of opinion in a number of key areas of US domestic container design suggest that standardisation may still be some way o...
Big questions in the spreader industry
NewsDuring the past few months Partek Corporation has been steadily buying more shares in Zeteco AB, the parent company of both Bromma and SM Ze...
ABP grabs NCS
NewsAssociated British Ports (ABP) has reached an agreement to acquire Northern Cargo Services Ltd (NCS), the largest general cargo stevedore at...
Boss getting out?
NewsBoss officially launched its RS4230 reach stacker model at Cemat in Hannover earlier this year and has so far supplied two machines: to Spee...
New hub for Memphis
NewsCanadian 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
NewsLeading Swedish paper and board manufacturer AssiDom�n decided last year to focus its continental European deliveries on rail using the ...
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