Legal setback for P&O Ports

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P&O Ports, which has been barred from bidding for a container terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru Port in India, has lost a crucial legal battle in...

Mergers in BA?

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The Argentine government is considering changes to the existing port privatisation laws which would allow any terminal operator at Puerto Nu...

SBB spreads the Domino effect

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As previously reported (WorldCargo News, July 2002 p42), SBB is pushing for more door-to-door transport of swap bodies under its Cargo Domin...

AWB goes logistic

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Australian wheat exporter AWBLimited has established a new grain logistics company AWB GrainFlow Pty Ltd, which as a wholly owned subsidiary...

INTTRA growth boost from CSI

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Shipping portal INTTRA reports that the new US Customs Container Security Initiative CSI) regulations, which require that shipping instructi...

Go water planing

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Airbus Industrie has settled on combined sea, inland waterway and road mode for delivery to Toulouse from Coventry, Cadiz, Hamburg and St Na...

ATI tariff row.

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The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has run into problems because of a new revenue-sharing scheme with P&O Ports-managed Asian Terminals In...

HK river terminal dispute in court

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The government has started court proceedings against Hong Kong's River Trade Terminal (RTT) for breaching its land lease conditions by handl...

IICL reefer courses set

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The Institute of International Container Lessors (IICL) will again offer two separate sessions of its popular annual course on refrigerated ...

Lloyd’s opens new mediation centre

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A claims mediation centre opened in October in the Lloyd's building, to provide the London insurance market with direct access to a central ...

Packaged hazardous cargo safety in focus

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The international chemical industry is developing a safety and quality assessment scheme for all logistics service providers engaged in the ...

Strikes provide grim warning

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There has been chaos on the US west coast as a result of the recent stoppage by longshoremen, which paralysed all 29 ports along the seaboar...

Can intermodal make a quality jump?

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Earlier this year The TRAIL research school at Delft Technical University (TU Delft) in Holland published a study reviewing some of the bett...

Whatever happened to baby pig?

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If anyone were to say that by now Great Britain should already have viable piggyback services, he would be sticking his neck out, given the ...

Towards a new cargo liability regime

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Storm clouds are gathering on the horizon as international efforts continue to introduce a new liability scheme intended to apply both to oc...

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