Fujairah bulks up

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In response to growing demand from bulk aggregate shippers, the Port of Fujairah has commissioned a 2000 t/h travelling shiploader and assoc...

Abu Dhabi project

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US-based consultancy Frederic R Harris has been retained to advise on a project to extend the container terminal at Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi....

ZPMC for Beirut

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Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZPMC) has reportedly beaten off four rival bids to supply the Port of Beirut with three ship-to-sho...

Saudi rail project set

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Maadin (the Saudi Mining Company) and construction giant Saudi Oger will jointly execute the US$2 bill, privately-managed, 1500 km rail link...

Beirut crane tenders

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The Port of Beirut has launched two tenders for container handling equipment, one of these covering supply of three quayside gantry cranes a...

Saudi rail project

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The Supreme Economic Council of Saudi Arabia (SEC) has approved plans for a 2,000 km long rail network which would link its major ports of J...

Widening the Gulf

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Transhipment in the Gulf area recorded strong growth in 2001 despite predictions of a steep fall in throughput post-911. Dubai underlined it...

Israel invests

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While Lebanon's Port of Beirut is looking for US$35 mill to finance new equipment and management systems (last month's WorldCargo News, p1) ...

Hidd in the open

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In March the Hidd industrial port project was finally launched in Bahrain, with Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa laying t...

Bandar Abbas plan shelved

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Tehran has shelved its plans to set up a private container terminal at Bandar Abbas. Instead the state Ports and Shipping Organisation (PSO)...

Beirut crane plea

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The Beirut Chamber of Shipping (BCS), which represents 50 Lebanese shipping agencies, has issued a stark warning to the government that it m...

Eurogate eyeing second Maasvlakte?

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Eurogate Group has expressed its interest in the second Maasvlakte as a strategic location in Western Europe, close to the open water of the...

Hutchison eyes Bandar Abbas

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After withdrawing from the stake in Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT), which it took over from ICTSI last year, Hutchison Port...

Figee for Hodeidah

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Dutch crane builder Figee has won a turnkey contract worth around E15 mill to supply port equipment and services to the Port of Hodeidah, Ye...

Aden traffic surge

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Throughput at Aden Container Terminal (ACT), Yemen, the PSA Corporation (60 per cent) and Yemen Holdings (40 per cent) joint venture (throug...

Saudis planning port rail link

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Saudi Arabia has invited international companies to participate in a railway project that would link the country's two major port cities of ...

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