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...

SCA/Volvo project

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A project involving Swedish companies SCA Transforest and Volvo will, it is claimed, relieve the European road network of more than 2 mill t...

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...

New deal for Trieste?

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The Trieste Port Authority (APT) is poised to acquire, through Adriafer, a 10 percent stake in Trieste International Container Terminal (TIC...

New Brisbane low

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The Port of Brisbane has completed a dredging programme that has resulted in a minimum draft of 14m in all of its navigational channels, inc...

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...

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...

Fantuzzi opens new UK centre

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Fantuzzi Noell UK Ltd, part of the Italo-German Fantuzzi Noell group, has opened a 7500 ft2 service, showroom and warehousing centre in Manc...

Work set to start on ISPL projects

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Work on two port infrastructure projects by International Seaports (India) Pvt Ltd (ISPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore-based Inte...

Rail push for Fremantle

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A drive to switch land-based container movements to and from the Australian port of Fremantle from road to rail envisages growing rail's sha...

Beirut crane tenders

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The Port of Beirut has launched two tenders for container handling equipment, one of these covering supply of three quayside gantry cranes a...

Honda in Mexico

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Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) and Fer rocarr il Mexicano (Ferromex) will together move time-sensitive automotive p...

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...

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