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Mixed response to extended Melbourne ECP hours

News18 Mar 2011

The larger of two empty container parks (ECPs) trialling extended opening hours in the Port of Melbourne has reported mixed results....

Melbourne ECPs open longer

News29 Jan 2011

Empty container parks in Melbourne controlled by Maersk and MSC have taken the lead in offering extended operating hours for shipping lines ...

Melbourne container park war of words continues

News18 Jan 2011

The decision by Maersk and MSC to fund extended hours at the MRS and CC Containers empty container parks (ECPs) in Melbourne has not diminis...

Melbourne ECP hours extended

News1 Sep 2010

Most of Melbourne’s empty container parks (ECPs) will extend opening from nine to 12 hours a day under an agreement reached by a new multi...

Single VBS in Melbourne

News1 Jun 2010

Both container terminal operators at the Port of Melbourne are to move to a single vehicle booking service (VBS), opening the way for a port...

Melbourne seeks solution to empty container park mess

News1 Mar 2010

Warring parties will come together in a series of working groups in an effort to resolve the increasingly-fraught issues surrounding Melbour...

Detention charges anger hauliers

News1 Dec 2004

New shipping line policies on detention charges for the late return of empty containers have raised Victorian Transport Association (VTA) co...

P&OP speeds up in Melbourne

News1 Aug 2003

The Victorian Transport Association (VTA) has reported that P&O Ports significantly improved truck turntimes at its West Swanson Dock contai...

VTA wants faster P&OP

News1 Jun 2003

The Victorian Transport Association (VTA), transport operators and P&O Ports are taking a joint approach to what operators claim are unaccep...

Mixed response to extended Melbourne ECP hours

Melbourne ECPs open longer

Melbourne container park war of words continues

Melbourne ECP hours extended

Single VBS in Melbourne

Melbourne seeks solution to empty container park mess

Detention charges anger hauliers

P&OP speeds up in Melbourne

VTA wants faster P&OP

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Reefer monitoring on barges

Asyaport becomes first port in Türkiye to offer shore power

Hapag-Lloyd improves container tracking for inland transportation

Texas ship channels receive historic funding approval

Peruvian bounce

Mixed response to extended Melbourne ECP hours

Melbourne ECPs open longer

Melbourne container park war of words continues

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Reefer monitoring on barges

Asyaport becomes first port in Türkiye to offer shore power

Hapag-Lloyd improves container tracking for inland transportation

Texas ship channels receive historic funding approval

Peruvian bounce

Montreal strike leads MEA to suspend salary guarantee

Valencia resumes operations in aftermath of deadly flooding in Eastern Spain

Heavy transport vessel runs aground off Taiwan

ILWU Canada announces new strike

Ships divert as indefinite strike shuts down Montreal’s Termont terminals