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Gaussin secures framework deal with DP World

News4 Feb 2008

The first contract under the new agreement is worth US$4M. The deal could be extended to cover a number of DP World container handling facil...

TDT Livorno leg up

News1 Feb 2008

Port of Leghorn (Livorno) container terminal operator Terminal Darsena Toscana (TDT) is finalising a new investment plan worth around €10M...

Beijing-Hamburg box train service by 2010

News1 Feb 2008

After carrying out a trial run last month (see WorldCargo News January 2008, p17), German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) is aiming to star...

New shortsea lo-lo terminal for Ghent

News1 Feb 2008

A joint venture of Manuport, in which Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI) recently acquired a majority stake, and Finland’s Container Fin...

…QR/Kaplan want Moore

News1 Feb 2008

Queensland Rail (QR) has joined forces with property developer Stockland and Kaplan Funds Management (KFM) to create a new intermodal rail f...

Chinese in Estonia box terminal deal

News1 Feb 2008

Estonia’s biggest seaport, Tallinn, has signed a co-operation agreement with China’s Ningbo Port Group (NPG) under which the companies w...

…East London upgrade

News1 Feb 2008

While Transnet has lined up large scale improvements for Durban, Cape Town and Saldanha, new investment is also being made in East London. T...

New grabs from Page Macrae

News1 Feb 2008

New Zealand-based cargo handling and engineering firm Page Macrae has introduced a new, remote release grab design. In the first commercial ...

Auckland upgrade

News1 Feb 2008

Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) has completed the first stage of its Axis Fergusson reclamation and terminal extension, providing capacity for ...

Gaussin inks DPW framework deal

News1 Feb 2008

France-based industrial and port trailer specialist supplier Gaussin Manugistique - an amalgam of the French words for handling and logistic...

DCT Gdansk boost

News1 Feb 2008

Containerships has switched its Polish calls from GTK Gdansk to the new and purpose-built DCT Gdansk container terminal. Initially there wil...

Colombo terminal mired in controversy

News1 Feb 2008

Going against the recommendations of two government committees, Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) seems determined to award the US$400M Colom...

…TTS alliance eyes London Gateway

News1 Feb 2008

Sweden-based TTS Port Equipment is heading an alliance of leading industry names to bid for DP World’s London Gateway Port automated conta...

144 RTG order in the pipeline?

News1 Feb 2008

PSA Singapore is understood to be negotiating contracts for 144 RTGs, to be split between Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction and ZPMC....

Northern Gateway gets the go-ahead…

News1 Feb 2008

As this issue was going to press, Babcock & Brown Infrastructure subsidiary PD Ports announced that it had received the green light to proce...

Veolia Cargo to buy rail4chem

News1 Feb 2008

Subject to the approval of relevant antitrust authorities, the shareholders of Essen-based rail cargo operator rail4chem Eisenbahnverkehrsge...

Gaussin secures framework deal with DP World

TDT Livorno leg up

Beijing-Hamburg box train service by 2010

New shortsea lo-lo terminal for Ghent

…QR/Kaplan want Moore

Chinese in Estonia box terminal deal

…East London upgrade

New grabs from Page Macrae

Auckland upgrade

Gaussin inks DPW framework deal

DCT Gdansk boost

Colombo terminal mired in controversy

…TTS alliance eyes London Gateway

144 RTG order in the pipeline?

Northern Gateway gets the go-ahead…

Veolia Cargo to buy rail4chem

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Melbourne Truck drivers take concerns to DP World

Kings of the Netherlands and Belgium open New Lock in Terneuzen

Maritime Single Window underway in Georgia

Port of Bar is in the market for a mobile harbour crane

Singapore mandates digital bunkering from April 2025