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Xiamen terminal "to be completely automated"

News12 Apr 2012

What is termed a "fully automated container terminal" is to be built in the Chinese port...

VeriRAD from VeriTainer

News1 Apr 2011

US-based VeriTainer Corporation is adding VeriRAD to its VeriSpreader crane-based container scanning platform....

Big trucks braced for downturn

News1 Dec 2008

Demand for heavy lift trucks looks set to fall next year. However, some industry spokesmen are still upbeat about the ports sector and the w...

New Xiamen box terminal

News1 Dec 2008

The Chinese authorities have approved the construction of a two-berth container terminal at Xiamen in which French carrier CMA CGM has a 30 ...

Dry freight box demand hits the rocks

News1 Nov 2008

Dry freight container manufacturers are facing a lean time. Demand has collapsed in the final quarter of 2008 and most plants have been put ...

New port for Xiamen

News1 Oct 2008

China’s Xiamen port has started developing a new port area at South Liuwudian, the closest point to Taiwan, for direct cross-strait contai...

Kaohsiung losing out to Xiamen

News1 Jul 2008

Maersk Line plans to surrender two of the four berths it operates at Kaohsiung when their leases expire at the end of October and move the b...

Slower growth at China’s container ports

News1 Jul 2008

Although growth rates at China’s two largest container ports - Shanghai and Shenzhen - slowed significantly in the first half of this year...

Taiwan to end ban on direct links with China

News1 Apr 2008

In a move that would end a five-decade ban on direct shipping links with China, Taiwan’s President-elect Ma Ying-Jeou has nominated seven ...

SPMP in second place, twice

News1 Feb 2008

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

Songyu Phase 1 comes on stream

News1 Sep 2007

AP Moller-Maersk Group and Xiamen Port (Group) held a grand opening ceremony this month for the Xiamen Songyu Phase I Container Terminal at ...

China to top 100M TEU

News1 Sep 2007

China’s ports are expected to handle a record 108M TEU this year, making it the first country to pass the 100M TEU mark....

China ports up 25%

News1 Apr 2007

China’s major sea and river ports handled 24.5M TEU in the first three months of this year, up 25.4% year-on-year, according to figures re...

New ports planned for Fujian

News1 Sep 2006

China’s south eastern Fujian province is to invest US$3.7B over the next five years to build a string of ports along its 3,324 km coastlin...

Maersk mulls Xiamen hub

News10 Jan 2006

Speculation is growing that Maersk Line, the world’s largest container carrier, will move its transhipment business from Kaohsiung in Taiw...

Fuzhou eyes Taiwan trade

News1 Dec 2004

Beijing has approved Fuzhou City’s plans to spend Yuan7 bill (US$843 mill) to expand its port facilities in anticipation of increased dire...

Xiamen terminal "to be completely automated"

VeriRAD from VeriTainer

Big trucks braced for downturn

New Xiamen box terminal

Dry freight box demand hits the rocks

New port for Xiamen

Kaohsiung losing out to Xiamen

Slower growth at China’s container ports

Taiwan to end ban on direct links with China

SPMP in second place, twice

Songyu Phase 1 comes on stream

China to top 100M TEU

China ports up 25%

New ports planned for Fujian

Maersk mulls Xiamen hub

Fuzhou eyes Taiwan trade

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

Hitech windy shipping breezes into Greenock

Heavy transport vessel runs aground off Taiwan

Valencia resumes operations in aftermath of deadly flooding in Eastern Spain

Gemini network rollout to take 13 weeks, says Maersk CEO

Xiamen terminal "to be completely automated"

VeriRAD from VeriTainer

Big trucks braced for downturn

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

Hitech windy shipping breezes into Greenock

Heavy transport vessel runs aground off Taiwan

Valencia resumes operations in aftermath of deadly flooding in Eastern Spain

Gemini network rollout to take 13 weeks, says Maersk CEO

Winners of US$ 2.9b Clean Ports Program announced

Port of Montreal longshore workers target Termont in latest strike round

APM Terminals Maasvlakte II orders up to 71 Lift AGVs from Konecranes

Montreal port labour dispute continues with new strike

Hydrogen-powered RTG starts operations at Oi Container Terminal