Melbourne reunited

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The Australian port of Melbourne is to come under the management of a single body once again after the Victorian government accepted the pri...

Manway progress

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At the request of a major fuel oil distributor, UK-based tank components manufacturer Progressive Engineering has developed a bolt-on manway...

Vizag progress

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The 1 mill TEU/year capacity Visakhapatanam (Vizag) container terminal in the state of Andhra Pradesh on India's east coast will be ready fo...

Vic rail projects

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The Australian state of Victoria has let a series of contracts for two major rail initiatives, the regional fast rail project and the rail s...

Costa is beached

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The depressed European railcar market has claimed another victim, with Italybased wagon/passenger car Costaferroviaria and its plants in Cos...

New berths for Haldia

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The Haldia Dock Complex (HDC), which is controlled by the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), will have five new berths constructed on a build, opera...

Singamas buys out reefer plant

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Singamas Container Holdings has reached agreement with five major shareholders to acquire the remaining issued shares in its subsidiary Sing...

French port candidates

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The Port of Marseilles Authority (PAM) has announced that negotiations for the concession of its planned Fos 2XL container terminal have ope...

Spanish eye Angola

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Spanish company Vasco Gallega de Consignaciones has said it may invest in Angolan ports with a view to further developing that country's gra...

Transfesa restructures

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Spain-based intermodal group Transfesa is to restructure its operations in order to make the business more attractive to a potential allianc...

ART for port sake

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While Savcor ONE concentrates on integrated packages for position determination and tracking of containers and other mobile assets (eg Modul...

Daugava-Dnieper water corridor?

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Lavera (Latvian Environment and Energy Development Fund) has proposed an international transport corridor from the Baltic to the Black Sea v...

Gwadar free port

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Pakistan has decided to develop the Chinese-backed, US$248 mill deepwater port under construction at Gwadar (see WorldCargo News, April 2002...

Tranz Rail/Maersk getting closer

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Co-operation between Maersk Sealand and Tranz Rail has seen the former drop direct calls at New Zealand's principal South Island container p...

Vizhinjam feasibility study under way

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The Vizhinjam port project in the southern Indian state of Kerala has been revived with the commissioning of a technical feasibility study o...

Great Lakes to go Panamax?

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A US Army Corps of Engineers' plan that would see Panamax vessels operating throughout the Great Lakes as far as Duluth, Minnesota, has rece...

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