All aboard in Yangshan

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Demand for Shanghai’s new Yangshan container port is so robust that berthing slots at the new Phase 3A terminal, which opened without fanf...

Shanghai/Savannah e-seal project

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All containers loaded at Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) facilities in Shanghai for discharge at the port of Savannah are now fitte...

Electric terminal tractors a reality

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The speed with which Balqon industries of California has developed a prototype electric tractor, tested the vehicle and now taken orders for...

SIPG to take over Jiujiang

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Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) is to take a 91.67% stake, worth an estimated Yuan550M (US$76M), in a proposed joint venture that w...

SPMP in second place, twice

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Chinese crane manufacturer Shanghai Port Machinery Plant (SPMP) is currently the second largest container quay crane manufacturer in the wor...

Twin 40fts: a case study in cold reality

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A frank report by Shanghai International Port Group shows that the promise of greater productivity of Twin 40ft cranes is not so easy to rea...

NYK gets foot into Yangshan

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Japan’s largest container operator, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), has been provisionally accepted as an investor in the threeberth Phase 3B t...

SIPG bids to boost Yangshan box volumes

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Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), the dominant operator at China’s largest container port, is planning the next phase of its contr...

SIPG in for Jiujiang

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As anticipated in the July 2007 issue of WorldCargo News (p41), Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) will control another port along the...

Global operators in M&A spree

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A new report from UK-based Drewry Shipping Consultants analyses the consequences of the extraordinary level of merger and acquisition activi...

Full speed ahead on the smart seal front

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Significant progress is now being made in the area of electronic (or smart) seal development, with one piece of standardisation agreed earli...

CMHI mulls bulk terminals

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China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI), which has equity stakes in seven container ports in China, is considering investing in more d...

No looking back for Shanghai

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Shanghai is on course to overtake Singapore as the world’s largest container port next year....

Foreign investment boosts ports industry

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Chinese shipping companies are foregoing investment opportunities in foreign ports in favour of a commercially lucrative domestic port indus...

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