ICTSI in demand

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Manila-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

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P&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

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More than A$80 mill in extra funding has been allocated by the Queensland Government to rail track improvements between Rockhampton and Cair...

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...

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...

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....

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...

ABP grabs NCS

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Associated British Ports (ABP) has reached an agreement to acquire Northern Cargo Services Ltd (NCS), the largest general cargo stevedore at...

Boss getting out?

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Boss 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

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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 ...

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