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?...

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...

Rail investment drive

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SNCF is to invest more than FF8 bill (E1.22 bill) in the next five years in new locos, many of which will be dedicated to freight and, throu...

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....

Dockwise to acquire OHT

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Heavy lift ship operator Dockwise is to acquire competing Norwegian operator Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) in a mixed share/cash deal. OHT ...

Dow takes a new approach \

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Katoen Natie has launched a new concept in container terminals at the large Dow Chemical complex in the Dutch port of Terneuzen....

Morris units sold

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Morris Material Handling Inc, which has been under Chapter XI bankruptcy protection in the USA since last May, has sold its industrial crane...

All change at DB

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German Transport Minister Kurt Bodewig has firmly committed the federal Government to the total separation of the DB network from DB operati...

Six TEU AGVs

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Fantuzzi-Reggiane is leading a new project aimed at developing a 6 TEU automated guided vehicle to transport containers between the port are...

P&OP parks in Tauranga

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P&O Ports has opened a new container park in the New Zealand port of Tauranga, consolidating its Mount Maunganui operations on a single thre...

Japan backs Haiphong upgrade

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Vietnam's northern port of Haiphong is set for a US$126 mill Japanese-backed upgrade that will lift its handling capacity by over 60 per cen...

…midstreamers eye electronic payment

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Midstream container handlers in Hong Kong are studying various options, including an electronic payment system, to enable shippers to pay th...

Gopalpur progress

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The government of the state of Orissa in eastern India has finally chosen Adani Exports Ltd (AEL) to develop the minor port of Gopalpur as a...

Abra-cadabra

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Abra Terminales Mar�timas (ATM), the Urbaser (Dragados)-led company set up to run the new container terminal in Bilbao's outer harbour ext...

“Monstrous” fines

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The UK Railfreight Group (RFG) has described the fines of �2000 per illegal immigrant which EWS (and any future Channel tunnel railfreight...

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