Liverpool upgrades capacity

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Capacity at the Port of Liverpool’s Royal Seaforth container terminal is being expanded with the addition of 5,000 extra ground slots. Wor...

Rift Valley agreement

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A deal to restructure troubled Rift Valley Railways (RVR), which operates freight and most passenger rail services in Kenya and Uganda, has ...

Karachi secures WB loan

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The World Bank will provide a loan of US$115.8M to rebuild four damaged berths on East Wharf at the Port of Karachi, adding 400m of quay wal...

Dispute over Santos Brasil ownership

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A dispute over ownership has broken out between the two companies, Multi STS Participações and the Opportunity Fund, that control Brazil...

Contract let for Khalifa

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Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) has awarded an AED1.208B (US$329M) contract to Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co Ltd for the latest sta...

Gottwald in Ecuador

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Contecon Guayaquil SA (CGSA), the ICTSI affiliate that operates the container terminal in the Port of Guayaquil in Ecuador, has taken delive...

Barcelona chases cost overrun

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Barcelona Port Authority (APB) is seeking compensation of €40.7M from the consortium of construction companies, headed by FCC, whose exten...

L&T plans Kattupalli terminal

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Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), India’s biggest engineering and construction firm, plans to open a container terminal at Kattupalli, near Enn...

PYI to develop new feeder port at Suzhou

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Hong Kong-listed PYI Corp is investing Yuan120M (US$18M) to take a 40% stake in a new feeder port in Suzhou in the Yangtze River estuary. Su...

Freeport upgrade

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Avtron Crane Systems, part of USbased Avtron Industrial Automation, has been awarded a contract by Port Freeport, Texas, to upgrade the elec...

In a class of its own

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American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) will shortly launch its new Supply portal, a website designed specifically to simplify the management of c...

CN signs more SLAs

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Canadian National Railway (CN) has signed comprehensive Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) with the Prince Rupert Port Authority (PRPA) and Mah...

…in rail row with SPC

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Relations between Asciano and the Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC) have reached a new low after the company’s Patrick container terminal div...

China Merchants moves into Colombo

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Sri Lanka has finally awarded a US$450M contract to a consortium of China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI) and local conglomerate Ait...

Terberg (DTS)/Actiw deal…

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Finland’s Actiw Oy has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland with Terberg (DTS) UK Ltd, part of the Terberg gr...

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