SNCF buys Nord Cargo

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SNCF is understood to have acquired a majority stake in Nord Cargo, Italy’s second biggest rail freight operator after Trenitalia and up t...

NZ rail renationalised

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The New Zealand government has reached a deal with Toll Holdings to acquire its rail and ferry assets for NZ$665M. The Government already to...

Grimaldi’s new deal in Spain

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Grimaldi Genova’s Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) has reached an agreement with a leading Spanish hauliers’ association, CETM Confederación Es...

Hempel dropping paint in Denmark

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Leading marine coatings manufacturer Hempel A/S has announced that paint production will stop at its factory in Lyngby, Denmark, on 31 May 2...

Panama terminal row

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PSA Panamá Internacional Terminal, which won the deal to build the new Rodman port in Panama, will invest US$70M in an initial development ...

Going Dutch again with 60t LHVs

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The Dutch government has reauthorised use of 25.25m long “eco-combis” with an allup weight of 60t, following a study by TNO that has con...

Ensenada digs deep

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The Mexican port of Ensenada has issued a tender for dredging work aimed at increasing draft to 16m before the end of this year, in order to...

RAM tops a million

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Following a record trading year in 2007, UK-based Real Asset Management plc (RAM) has increased the volume of containers managed worldwide b...

Nuclear waste halted

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The transport of radioactive waste from a reprocessing plant in La Hague in France to an interim storage facility in Gorleben in the German ...

Geelong gets smart

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The Australian port of Geelong has introduced a state-of-the-art SmartDock system at the four-berth Refinery Pier, principally used by Shell...

Transnet considers Salisbury option

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With its Bayhead expansion project unlikely to proceed, South African transport utility Transnet is assessing its other options for providin...

SPMP goes to ZPMC

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China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) has sold SPMP to ZPMC, which effectively brings the world’s first and second largest cont...

Freightliner sale imminent?

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According to British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, Arcapita, a Bahrain-based, Sharia-compliant but non-sovereign investment fund, is in ta...

Marseilles looks for a way out

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The Port of Marseilles (PAM) has come up with a formula that it hopes will break the deadlock with the CGT union over the government’s por...

Kalmar launches RMI Version 2

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Kalmar Industries has launched a second, updated version (RMI 2.0) of its Remote Machine Interface (RMI), a tool for remote machine monitori...

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