Japan box figures up

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Japan's ports handled a total of 12.678 mill TEU (mTEU) in 2000, up 9.7 per cent on the figure for 1999, according to figures published last...

X-ray systems for Japan…

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The Japanese Ministry of Finance has awarded two contracts to install large X-ray cargo inspection systems at the Customs offices in Osaka a...

Kitakyushu squabble

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The Japanese plan to liberalise the national container ports industry has run into political trouble....

US/Japan hazchem inspection pact

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The US Coast Guard and the Ministry of Transport of Japan have signed a "declaration of intent" to share information on the transport of con...

…and Kita- Kyushu?

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A consortium led by PSA International is reportedly Kita-Kyushu Harbour Bureau (KHB)'s preferred bidder for the new container terminal proje...

Japanese eyeing Indonesian ports

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Japanese investors are expected to participate in an Indonesian project to build four new container ports, including one at Batam in Sumatra...

Seven up for Japan terminal

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Seven bids, including two non-Japanese and one Japanese-American, have been received by the Kita-Kyushu Harbour Bureau (KFB) for its planned...

Kita-Kyushu first

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A new container terminal planned for Hibikinada by the Kita-Kyushu Harbour Bureau will be the first project in Japan to be executed under th...

Nomura eyeing up ABP?

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Shares in Britain's biggest port operator, Associated British Ports Holdings Plc (ABP), surged 25 per cent after it said it had received an ...

Shorter crane times

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Japan's five major ports - Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya and Kobe - were scheduled to start imposing gantry crane charges in 30 minute segm...

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