New capacity for Apapa

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APM Terminals has announced that it has purchased four RTGs for Apapa Container Terminal (ACT), thereby more than doubling the terminal’s ...

Ports America defends Farfán

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In response to legal action aimed at halting construction of the new port of Farfán on Panama’s Pacific coast, Sean Strawbridge, managing...

TSI on line with Navis

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Terminal Systems, Inc (TSI) has successfully replaced its in-house TOS with Navis SPARCS, Navis Express and WebAccess at Deltaport, the larg...

Shoreham adds timber handlers

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Port of Shoreham operator Sussex Port Forwarding (SPF) has added to its fleet of Hyster Fortens diesel FLTs for timber handling. Barloworld ...

Maersk big on reefers

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Maersk Line has signed an agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co in Korea for the delivery of 16 container vessels in ...

Vizhinjam challenge thrown out

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An Indian court has dismissed a petition filed by Zoom Developers against the Kerala state government for rejecting its bid to build the Viz...

AFAM+ for avocados

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A trial shipment from Brazil to Rotterdam carried out earlier this year by German operator Hamburg Süd has demonstrated that Thermo King’...

DPW seals Aden deal

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Some three years after it was first agreed, DP World and the Yemen Gulf of Aden Port Corp have finalised a joint venture that will see DPW d...

ADB pulls the plug on scanners

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is refusing to provide funding for six container scanners being acquired by the Port of Chittagong, after t...

Flying the tank flag in Shanghai

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The Secretariat of the International Tank Container Organisation (ITCO) is recommending to its members that it participates in the 2010 Tran...

RZD North Korea deal

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As trailed in the December 2007 issue of WorldCargo News (p15), Russian Railways (RZD) and the North Korean government have set up a joint v...

LHV trial in Flanders

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The Flanders regional government in Belgium is set to authorise a limited trial of “eco-combis” - longer, heavier vehicles (LHVs) with a...

Orbassano-Aiton in trouble

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The loss-making Lyon-Turin intermodal rail service, using Modalohr technology between platforms at Aiton and Orbassano, is in danger of bein...

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