P&OP pulls out of Kandla

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Frustrated by continuous delays in project execution, P&O Ports has decided to pull out of the Rs2 bill (US$42 mill) Kandla container termin...

Brisbane flies United

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Over four hectares of the Port of Brisbane Corporation (PBC)'s Whyte Island Estate have been earmarked for the development of a 15,000 m2 wa...

Sun Belt by rail

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The Port of Savannah is too far south to be in the frame as a US northeast load centre, but the port hopes that its enhanced rail intermodal...

New French terminals

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Two new intermodal rail terminals have opened recently in France. The first is in Bayonne, close to the Spanish border on the Atlantic side....

Vancouver progress

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The Port of Vancouver Commission (Washington, US) has approved the start of the second phase of its Terminal 2 (T2) redevelopment project....

Estonian State Rail snapped up

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Ed Burkhardt, president of US-based Rail World Inc and the former president/CEO of Wisconsin Central, has confirmed that an associate compan...

Hidrovia boost

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Political analysts in Argentina say the Paraguay-Parana waterway has received a major boost from a high level agreement between Brazil and t...

AQIS set to reduce inspection charges

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The Australian government has announced that Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) charges for its seven commodity programmes ...

Japan to go 24/7?

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The Japan Maritime Bureau's budget proposals for fiscal 2002 include references to the need to introduce 24 hour working at the country's po...

Smoothlift patent

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Kalmar Industries has been awarded a patent in respect of the Smoothlift rope hoist system featured on its sixth-generation (SC2000) straddl...

Rail gasps for air

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Overnight Express, the high speed, mixed passenger-freight service between Amsterdam and Milan, is set to be scrapped. Railion has cancelled...

Reyner to quit depot operations

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One of the UK's longest established container depot operators, Geoffrey Reyner Ltd, has announced that it is to withdraw from the container ...

Green light for XICT expansion

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Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has been given the go-ahead to invest around Yuan1 bill (US$120 mill) to expand its container terminal at the ...

Maritime Haulage goes independent

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In something of a reversal of the trend towards industry consolidation, newly-formed Maritime Group Ltd has acquired container haulier Marit...

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