Empties up in Amsterdam

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Container traffic over Amsterdam rose by 21% last year to 370,000 TEU (3.4 Mt). The main driver behind this growth, says the port authority ...

Melbourne dredging costs rise

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Melbourne’s channel deepening programme will go ahead on February 1 but at a cost almost one third higher than previous estimates, mostly ...

Harper modernisation planned

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Cavalla Rubber Corporation (CRC) is holding talks with the National Port Authority of Liberia (NPA) over the rehabilitation of the Port of H...

Antwerp digs for 12,000 TEU ships

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Buoyed by a 14.3% increase in container traffic to 8M TEU in 2007, the Port of Antwerp has launched its long-desired Scheldt deepening progr...

Mega port for Doha

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Qatar has unveiled plans to develop a new deepwater port at Doha at a cost of QR22B (U$6n). First phase capacity is slated at 2M TEU/year, f...

New Eurasian Landbridge tes

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A train hauling 100 containers loaded with toys, electrical goods and industrial products left Beijing on January 9 and was expected to reac...

CMA CGM in China port deal

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French operator CMA CGM has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Xiamen Haicang Investment General Co and Hong Kong-based New W...

Angamos to double up

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Emilio Bouchon, managing director of the Chilean port of Angamos, believes that within two years the facility will have doubled its cargo vo...

AIG forms Ports America

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AIG Highstar Capital, the owner of and investor in Ports America Inc (formerly P&O Ports North America), MTC Holdings and Amports Inc has fo...

Dunkirk faces lo-lo challenge

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NFTIou, the common user container terminal in the Port of Dunkirk, has been hit by Maersk’s decision to stop direct calls with its AE10 (E...

Rickmers into San Giorgio

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Rickmers-Linie, the Hamburg-based breakbulk, heavy lift and project cargo specialist, is joining forces with Gavio SpA and Finterminal, a da...

Vizhinjam extended again

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The schedule set last April for India’s planned Vizhinjam Container Transhipment Terminal in the southern state of Kerala has once again b...

Evergreen ups TPCT stake

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Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine Corp will invest a further US$9.22M in Taipei Port Container Terminal (TPCT), boosting its total investment to U...

CXIC adds tanks

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China will get its fifth volume tank container manufacturer at the end of this year when the CXIC Group launches production at a new plant i...

Schneider case underlines patent farce

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A Chinese court’s intellectual property decision against Schneider Electric has set a precedent that companies in the container handling e...

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