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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

NELTI moves ahead

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Launched in September 2008 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the International Road Transport Union (IRU)’s New Eurasian Land Transport Initiative ...

No progress on Gwadar container terminal

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Singapore port operator PSA International has not been able to start construction work on the dedicated container terminal at Pakistan’s G...

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...

PPA awards Manila contract

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The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has finally awarded the contract to rehabilitate, operate and maintain Manila North Harbor to a consort...

Momentum builds up in Sharjah

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Momentum Logistics, a subsidiary of international port management company Gulftainer, has completed construction of a new container repair a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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