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A ready alternative, requiring little rail infrastructure, to the congested trucking route between Buenos Aires and S�o Paulo is the Roadr...

Hapag joins INTTRA

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Hapag-Lloyd Container Line has signed a Memorandum of Agreement to join Internet shipping portal INTTRA, thereby increasing INTTRA's core in...

Global takes to MAPS reading

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Global Terminals Inc in New Jersey has ordered systems from Morris Automation for reporting and monitoring equipment/container positions, an...

Looking at matters in the round

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Most of France's leading seaports have reported their 2000 results. This "anti-clockwise" tour d'horizon summarises the major developments a...

New challenge from Dalian?

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Dalian engineering houses, Dalian Crane Works (DCW) and Dalian Heavy Industries (DHI), are in the process of merging some key operations int...

Tales of the riverbank

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Two new river-sea vessels, CRESCENT SEINE and CRESCENT RHINE, received their maiden loads in the Port of Paris at Silos de Bonni�res (Yvel...

An ill wind in Buenos Aires?

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SAP (Sociedad Administradora Portuaria) will have its hands full when it succeeds AGP as the Buenos Aires port authority in June....

Combibox and the city slickers

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One reason combined transport has struggled to retain market share is the growing share of LTL shipments in overall truck traffic....

Portek/Jason

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The Jason Group of systems integrators established in 1989 to focus on the crane drive and automation business in Asia recently merged with ...

Stability lifts the heavy lift market

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After an unsettled period, which saw the worldwide heavy lift shipping fleet swollen by some oportunistic new-buildings, there is an air of ...

Forces jostle for position in Melbourne

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Melbourne's fabled third container terminal is edging ever closer, but Melbourne Port Corporation (MPC) executives are understandably reluct...

China’s option for a northern hub

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Dalian and Qingdao are adding capacity to cope with rapidly rising throughput and trying to position themselves as the future hub port for n...

Offen mulls 7700 TEU

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Hamburg-based shipowner Claus Offen is in discussions with Samsung about construction of several 7700 TEU vessels....

The count of Montevideo

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To date three attempts to privatise the Montevideo container terminal have failed. What are the chances of the latest initiative?...

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