VOTG plays the triangle

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Despite the continued presence of a price-driven market and low margins impacting the global tank container market, VOTGTanktainer GmbH repo...

Abu Dhabi project

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US-based consultancy Frederic R Harris has been retained to advise on a project to extend the container terminal at Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi....

IAS adds Interdom

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Independent stacktrain operator Interdom Partners has become the latest company to adopt International Asset Systems (IAS)' InterBox intermo...

Funding change for Jade project

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The Wilhelmshaven deepsea container terminal project (Jade) has been boosted by a decision by the Lander governments of Lower Saxony (NS) an...

KoPT goes in deep

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Several foreign companies have expressed interest in investing in a new port that Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) plans to build on the Hooghly ri...

India port bidding rules changed

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The Indian government has changed some of the rules for bidding for port projects to iron out difficulties that have bedevilled some of the ...

More of the same

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Rotterdam-based Hoyer-Odfjell BV is currently engaged in the largest newbuilding programme of any deepsea tank container operator....

Crowley opts for domestic boxes

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US-based Crowley Liner Services recently placed its first orders for US domestic container equipment for deployment on its US East Coast, Ca...

TK inaugurates Chinese plant

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In a colourful ceremony on November 21, Thermo King formally inaugurated its new reefer container machinery manufacturing facility in Suzhou...

US port lock-out slows Hong Kong

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The 10-day lock-out of US west coast ports pushed throughput growth at Hong Kong's Kwai Chung container port down to 2.5 percent in October ...

Dunkirk-Charleroi canal opened up

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Two remarkable feats of civil engineering have opened the inland waterway between the Port of Dunkirk and the Belgian inland Port of Charler...

MCI in reefer breakthrough

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Danish reefer container manufacturer Maersk Container Industri (MCI) has developed a new environmentallyfriendly polyurethane foam blowing t...

Stealth freight train unveiled

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The Low Noise Train (LNT) consortium of OBB, SBB and Trenitalia has developed a wagon that makes less than half the noise of a conventional ...

Bigger Expressrail

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The Port Authority of New York/ New Jersey has hired Conti Enterprises, Inc to design and build a new on-dock intermodal railhead on a 70-ac...

Mindanao cranes

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Two gantry cranes and four RTGs are being fabricated in Japan for the new Mindanao international container port 20 kms east of Cagayan de Or...

P&OP/CMA-CGM form joint venture

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P&O Ports (P&OP) and French container operator CMA-CGM have formed a 50:50 joint venture company which is set to become the largest containe...

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