ZPMC launches mains-powered RTG

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China-based crane builder ZPMC has announced that it has completed construction for China Merchants Port Service (Shenzhen) Co Ltd of what i...

China box volumes up 24 per cent

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China’s major ports handled 34.29 mill TEU in the first six months of 2005, up 24 per cent year on year. Seaports moved 32.25 mill TEU, up...

Shenzhen on course to handle 15 mill TEU

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First half figures indicate that throughput at the southern Chinese port of Shenzhen, the world’s fourth-largest, will top 15 mill TEU thi...

Beijing nod for Dachan box terminal

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China has approved the construction of a new container port at Dachan Bay in western Shenzhen, in which Modern Terminals (MTL) of Hong Kong ...

Singapore regains top box port crown

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As expected, Singapore has again become the world’s busiest container port, overtaking Hong Kong. in the first quarter of 2005....

Nansha underused as ships stay away

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China’s new container port at Nansha on the west bank of the Pearl River has made a modest start by attracting domestic carriers China Shi...

PSA the front runner for CSXWT terminals

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Singapore’s PSA Corp, the world’s second largest container port operator, is considered the front runner to grab CSX World Terminals (CS...

CMHI to expand Mawan terminal

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Hong Kong-listed China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI) plans to invest much of the US$500 mill it is raising from asset sales in its...

Shenzhen to top Kwai Chung?

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Hong Kong’s Kwai Chung containerport set an all-time monthly record in August by handling 1.28 mill TEU, but the Shenzhen terminals in sou...

Shenzhen terminals hit by box charge

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Shippers will have to pay an extra Yuan120 (US$14.50) per laden FEU and Yuan80 (US$9.70) per TEU at Shenzhen’s container terminals from ne...

Shenzhen building capacity

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The two container terminals in the western part of Shenzhen port in south China are expanding capacity to cope with the ever-growing volumes...

CT9 eases the pressure at Kwai Chung

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Some 10 months behind schedule, Hong Kong’s Container Terminal 9 (CT9) at Kwai Chung container port will be fully operational by the end o...

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