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...

Japanese port results

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Figures from the IAPH in Tokyo show that the five leading Japanese container ports handled a total of 9.82 mill TEU of overseas container tr...

2K in the Baltic

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Close neighbours Klaipeda and Kaliningrad have set up the socalled "2K project," with the goal of increasing transit cargo flows through bot...

JNPT seeking JV

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The Jawaharlal Nehru port Trust (JNPT) in western India wants to form a joint venture with PSACorporation of Singapore or another government...

SCT digs deeper

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Southampton Container Terminals (SCT) has embarked on a 5-month programme to strengthen one of its four berths (No 205) and dredge it to -15...

Esmeraldas concession

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The northern Ecuadorian port of Esmeraldas should be in private hands by December 2, claims National Ports Authority APE....

Freightliner unease

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A row is brewing in the UK over the plan of MCB Ltd, rail freight operator Freightliner's holding company, to acquire GB Railfreight (GBRf) ...

Aumund bags B&W

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Germany-based Aumund Fordertechnik has broadened its bulk handling equipment range with the acquisition of B& W Mechanical Handling of the U...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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