Gold buys boxes

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Gold Container Investment, a subsidiary of the French TOUAX Group, has acquired 16,350 TEU of standard 20ft, 40ft and 40ft high cube contain...

Guaymas plans box terminal

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The Guaymas Port Authority has invited bids for the construction and operation a new container terminal at the Port of Guaymas on Mexico’s...

Hempel’s China move

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Denmark-based protective coatings manfacturer Hempel A/S has reached an agreement to acquire Hempel-Hai Hong in China, one of the largest su...

Egypt plans Said expansion

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Egypt plans to invest more than US$5.5B to expand Port Said into a transhipment hub with a potential throughput of more than 15M TEU/year by...

Singamas sees tough outlook

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Container maker Singamas expects to stay in the black this year after revving up production of higher-margin boxes, but warns of a rocky mar...

Porto Sul confirmed

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Brazilian President, Luiz Lula, state governor Jaques Wagner and the Ports Special Secretariat, Pedro Britto, have signed a memorandum of in...

Crunch time for Dar es Salaam

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The government of Tanzania has stated that it will soon decide the fate of Tanzania International Container Services’ (TICTS) concession t...

Flexitank growth slows but remains brisk

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The rate of expansion in the flexitank market may have slowed somewhat in 2008 but it is still a star performer in the bulk liquids transpor...

FreightLink forced to throw in the towel

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Adelaide-Darwin rail owner/operator FreightLink met what many consider its inevitable fate on 6 November when the company board appointed a ...

Tank component suppliers ready for 2009

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Tank component manufacturers point out that the traditionally competitive and quality-driven nature of their business sets them up well for ...

More for MarVal

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As forecast in the July 2008 issue of WorldCargo News (p18), Dragados-SPL has placed an order for five more superpostpanamax Portainers for ...

DPW signs Algeria port deal

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DP World and the Algerian government have signed agreements that see DP World taking over theoperation of the ports of Algiers and Djen-Djen...

ZPMC offers life cycle warranty

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In an exclusive interview with WorldCargo News, ZPMC’s president Guan Tongxian explains the company’s new life cycle warranty concept, t...

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