Niger to be deepened

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A N36B (US$233M) project to dredge the River Niger to open it up to ocean going vessels has finally begun. A total of 572 km of river passin...

New Romanian box terminal

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MáV-Cargo, the Hungarian unit of Rail Cargo Austria, has launched operations at a new container terminal in the Romanian city of Curtici ne...

DB Intermodal restructures

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DB Intermodal has restructured its sales operations to focus on serving customers in the “Maritime Transportation” and “Continental Tr...

IR cleared to draw Japan loan

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The Indian government has approved the terms of an overseas development assistance (ODA) loan from Japan to allow Indian Railways (IR) to st...

Green light for TCIT

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Mitsui OSK Line Ltd (MOL) has received approval from the government of Vietnam to establish a new joint terminal operating company, Tan Cang...

Sendai terminal gets fourth gantry crane

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A fourth ship-to-shore container crane was commissioned at the Shiogama Takasago Container Terminal at the Japanese Port of Sendai earlier t...

Kaplan in, DPW out

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Kaplan Funds Management (KFM), chaired by former Patrick boss Chris Corrigan, has again expanded its reach on the Australian waterfront by b...

Norfolkline Chunnel results

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Norfolkline is claiming “unprecedented reliability levels” for its Great Britain-Italy intermodal service via the Channel tunnel. The co...

Liebherr cranes in Koper

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Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd recently delivered two ship-toshore cranes to the Port of Koper’s Deep Water Container Terminal. The 51m (18...

Wagenborg ship launch

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IVELBORG, the building name for the first unit of a series of nine sister vessels under construction for Wagenborg Shipping BV was recently ...

3i mulls third Indian port investment…

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London-based private equity firm 3i Group, which has a US$1.2B infrastructure fund for India, is looking to make its third port investment i...

New clean air grants

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US EPA Administrator Lisa P Jackson and California State Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have announced US$26.5M in funding for diesel emissi...

Freight trains crash

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A head-on collsion between a container train and a liquid products train towards the end of last month caused the death of one driver and se...

ICTSI’s BCT goes online

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Container Tracking and Sailing Schedule, two new online services available through the Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) website, were recentl...

Kaohsiung upgrading

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In order to handle ever larger containerships, the Kaohsiung Harbour Bureau (KHB) is replacing outdated handling equipment at Taiwan’s lar...

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