FAL3 service for Dunkirk

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CMA CGM is introducing Dunkirk into the rotation of its FAL3 service (French Asia Line), beginning in August with the arrival of CMA CGM CAR...

Oakland budget and staff cuts

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The Port of Oakland is moving to cut its capital improvement budget for the 2009-2013 period for its marine division from US$232M to US$88.9...

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 ...

Globalisation going into reverse?

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Researchers from Canada-based CIBC World Markets, Inc anaylsing the impact of rising oil prices on transportation costs have concluded that ...

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...

Six shortlisted for Ennore

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India’s Ennore Port Trust has shortlisted six bidders from an original list of 22 to submit financial bids to build and operate a 1.5M TEU...

JNPT invites RFQs for another box berth

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In the face of growing congestion, India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has invited requests for qualification (RFQs) to build a new...

MoorMaster deal in Oman

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Cavotec MSL has won an order to supply 12 MoorMaster automated mooring units to Salalah Port Services Company (SAOG) in the Port of Salalah,...

Cargotec posts more orders

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Cargotec has reported that orders received during the first half of 2008 totalled €2.168B (€1.864B in first half of 2007). In 2Q/2008, o...

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...

DP World/Brisbane ink new lease deal

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DP World has committed to a new 40-year lease at the Port of Brisbane and announced that it is looking at investing A$250M in the Australian...

Brazil moves to reform port laws

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As surmised in last month’s WorldCargo News (p11), the relief felt by Abratec members over the Brazilian Senate’s rejection of a key ame...

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...

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’...

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...

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