UniCredit backs Maersk in Italy

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Almost a year after announcing its backing for a project to double the size of the Molo VII container terminal in Trieste and build a new on...

CommerceGuard closes

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CommerceGuard AB, the container tracking service jointly owned by GE Security, Mitsubishi Corporation, Samsung C&T Corporation and Siemens B...

Eight cranes for JWP

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Eurogate is negotiatng with ZPMC to buy eight cranes capable of handling ships up to 18,000 TEU for the new Jade Weser Port (JWP) container ...

Syria plans box growth

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Syria plans to spend US$800M to develop ports and shipping by 2015 as it aims to benefit from the reconstruction process in neighbouring Ira...

Van Moer taps into barges

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Van Moer Group, the privatelyowned Belgium-based national and international road transport logistics company, has acquired the former IBO-Ca...

Carrier highlights GHG savings

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In an effort to demonstrate the positive impact of choosing sustainable products, Carrier Corp has launched the Car r ier CO2NSERVATION Mete...

Portek eying Manta

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BNamericas reports that Singapore-based port operator Portek has submitted a proposal to the state-owned Manta Port Authority (APM) in Ecuad...

CMHI looking beyond China

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China Merchants Group, which handles about 33% of China’s container throughput, will seek more overseas projects as local trade growth slo...

Shanghai becomes top box port

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As expected, Shanghai overtook Singapore as the world’s biggest container port for the first time last year, handling 29.05M TEU, up from ...

QualaWash acquires PSC

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QualaWash Holdings LLC, North America’s largest independentlyowned provider of tank container depot, tank trailer and IBC cleaning and rec...

…loses out at Mina Zayed

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DP World’s 5-year management services agreement at the Port of Mina Zayed expired at the end of 2010 and has not been renewed. Instead, Ab...

Kalmar books big order in Colombia

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Cargotec has received an order from Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Cartagena, an existing customer, for two superpost-Panamax Kalmar STS cra...

FRANC Elbe River barge

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The prototype of a new container push barge design, designated FRANC and built by Tritonwerft for Deutsche Binnenreederei AG (DBR), has been...

Cargotec to acquire Navis from Zebra

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As this issue was going to press, Cargotec Corporation announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire leading TOS provider Navis from...

New automated terminal concept

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Marine Terminals Corporation (MTC), part of Ports America Inc, has applied for a patent on an automated marine container terminal system des...

HPH to spin off port assets

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Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH)’s port assets in Hong Kong and Southern China are to be spun off into a new publicly traded entity, which wi...

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