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…Maersk to levy out of service charge

News1 Apr 2010

Maersk Line has dropped a bombshell of its own with the announcement that it is to intoduce an out of service (OOS) charge for all container...

RFID tags help the paper trace

News1 Apr 2010

Sonoco-Alcore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sonoco with 30 tube and core plants and six paper mills in Europe, is using UPM Raflatac “DogB...

New Liebherrs for ABP

News1 Apr 2010

Associated British Ports (ABP) recently took delivery of two Liebherr A944c HD Litronic telescopic mobile cranes for operation at its four H...

DP World secures Dakar loan

News1 Apr 2010

DP World Dakar has secured a US$64M (€47.5M) loan from the African Development Bank to upgrade the container terminal at Senegal’s Dakar...

Solar cell first at Ohi

News1 Apr 2010

CIS (Copper, Indium, Selenium) solar cells made by Solar Frontier Ltd (formerly Showa Shell Solar Co Ltd) have been installed at Berths Nos ...

Chinese ports respond to overcapacity problem

News28 Mar 2010

China Merchants Holdings (International) Limited (CMHI) Chairman and CEO Dr Fu Yuning has forecast that Chinese ports are looking at a scena...

Russian Railways eyes stevedoring businesses

News28 Mar 2010

Russian Railways (RZD)’s wholly-owned subsidiary Freight One (FO), which accounts for 21% of Russia’s total rolling stock, is mulling va...

2009 box output down 90% but recovery under way

News27 Mar 2010

As the container industry begins to recover from the effects of the global financial crisis, the full extent of the precipitous drop in dema...

New investment for Rift Valley

News19 Mar 2010

Egyptian firm Citadel Capital has purchased a 49% stake in South African firm Sheltam Railways that gives it 17.5% equity in troubled Rift V...

Floating crane collapse

News19 Mar 2010

The incident occurred on 7 March at Southampton Cruise Terminal. No-one was seriously hurt...

Major deep water site back on the Rotterdam market

News19 Mar 2010

A minimum 45-hectare terminal site of the highest calibre has suddenly come on the market in the Port of Rotterdam...

Hutchison takes French lessons

News19 Mar 2010

The supervisory board of the port authority of Marseilles-Fos (GPM de Marseille-Fos) has today approved the grant of a right to Hutchison Po...

Abuja refutes piracy claim

News19 Mar 2010

Recent research by the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB PRC) has highlighted the growing problem of piracy off...

Russian oil refiner "to build container terminal" in Kaliningrad

News19 Mar 2010

Russia’s Mari Oil Refinery has announced a plan to build an 800,000 TEU/year container terminal in the Kaliningrad Free Zone, near the por...

People on the move

News19 Mar 2010

A regular round-up of new comings and goings in the worldwide ports and shipping industries...

CIYB 2010 published

News16 Mar 2010

“It was the worst year on record and the only one since the first containership sailed in 1956 that global container traffic actually fell...

…Maersk to levy out of service charge

RFID tags help the paper trace

New Liebherrs for ABP

DP World secures Dakar loan

Solar cell first at Ohi

Chinese ports respond to overcapacity problem

Russian Railways eyes stevedoring businesses

2009 box output down 90% but recovery under way

New investment for Rift Valley

Floating crane collapse

Major deep water site back on the Rotterdam market

Hutchison takes French lessons

Abuja refutes piracy claim

Russian oil refiner "to build container terminal" in Kaliningrad

People on the move

CIYB 2010 published

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Hurricane Milton update: Ports set to reopen on Friday

BIMCO green lights 1st management agreement for autonomous ships

DB Schenker unveils AI-Driven cargo monitoring tool

VCT’s new MHCs start operations

Konecranes begins delivery of 116 Li-Ion AGVs to HHLA’s CTB