TOD establishes new Oz venture

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Last month Trans Ocean Distribution (TOD) inaugurated Flexible Logistics Services in Adelaide, its third joint venture flexitank operation w...

UBC safety tips

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The discharge of bulk products from bulk containers or tank containers using suitably equipped tipping chassis is commonplace throughout Eur...

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...

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....

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...

Ten up for Polzug

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The seceret behind Polzug's success, says its and HHLA's chairman Peter Dietrich, speaking at the intermodal operator's recent 10th annivers...

.. Halifax status quo

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Halifax Port Authority (HPA) has announced that NYK/Ceres will continue as operator of the Fairview Cove Container Terminal under the terms ...

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...

Huktra doubles up

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Work is progressing well on a second batch of 50 tank containers which, along with the first, comprises the newbuilding programme for Huktra...

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...

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 ...

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...

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....

Traffic loss for Yemen ports

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October's terrorist attack on the French tanker LIMBURG and hefty war risk insurance costs have undermined Yemen's ports....

Bargetrain on the way

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An integrated container barge-rail-barge service linking Rotterdam and Antwerp with Danube River ports in Austria, Slovakia and Hungary is t...

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