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Cavotec Group posted revenues of €220M in 2012, an increase of 15.8%, with the operating result up by 51.6% to €21.49M...
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Strikes disrupt Brazil's ports
Dock workers in many of Brazil's ports went on strike last Friday in the second salvo of action against proposed reforms of the waterfront from the government of President Dilma Rousseff...
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Green light for Paranagua project
BNamericas reports that a tender for a project to develop new grain export facilities at Paranagua port in south east Brazil has been approved by Parana state governor, Beto Richa....
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APMT inks Turkish port deal
After signing a Heads of Terms agreement last February, APM Terminals (APMT) and Petkim Petrokimya Holding AS (Petkim) have entered into a final agreement to create and operate a new container and general cargo complex at Petkin Port, near Izmir, on Turkey's Aegean coast....
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ConGlobal takes RCS
ConGlobal Industries Inc (CGI), North America's largest container depot operator, has reached an agreement to acquire the business and assets of Refrigerated Container Services (RCS) Group from Carrier Transicold. The transaction was due to close on January 1, 2013....
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New box measurement tool
Widnes UK-based Marine Container Test Services Ltd (MCTS), which operates Europe's only independent ISO container and tank testing station, has developed a new, precision tool to facilitate the accurate measurement of containers undergoing prototype or batch testing....
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Tex TAPs new funds
Textainer, the world's largest container lessor by fleet size, has acquired a 50.1% interest in TAP Funding Ltd, a Bermuda company that owns approximately 99,000 TEU of containers....
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Post-Panamax PCTCs for Hoegh Autoliners
Norwegian shipping company Hoegh Autoliners A/S has placed an order for three post-Panamax, 8500 CEU capacity PCTCs, plus options, with Chinese shipyard Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry Co Ltd (XSI)....
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Kiel Canal causing concern
The Kiel Canal, or Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, Germany's short cut between the North Sea and Baltic, is easily the busiest artificial waterway in the world, accounting for more than 42,000 vessel transits carrying more than 100 mt of freight in 2012. The absolute record for freight tonnage was the pre-crisis year of 2008, when 106 mt were carried through the canal....
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Storm in Brazil over terminal decision...
A decision announced by the Brazilian government in early December to re-tender 55 publicly-owned terminals leased to private operators before 1993 could be met by "brutal legal action," one of the companies affected has warned....
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Ust-Luga intermodal gateway
A new block train service has been launched by Russia's Global Container Service (GCS) and its intermodal affiliate Ruscon out of the new Ust-Luga Container Terminal (ULCT), which is operated by National Container Company. It will run a distance of over 1100 kms to Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia's fifth largest city located around 400 kms to the east of Moscow....
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TIV top in Venice
Port of Venice operator Terminal Intermodale Venezia SpA (TIV) has handled more containers than the port's hitherto principal container handler, PSA Vecon, for the first time....
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Hastings on the march
The Victorian government has awarded five contracts valued at A$2.3M for key studies in support of the controversial development of Hastings as Melbourne's container handling successor (see WorldCargo News December 2012, p4)....
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Singamas issues profit warning
Singamas Container Holdings, the world's second largest container manufacturer, has warned that it expects to record a significant fall in profits for 2012....
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Double-stack route in New England
CSX Transportation (CSXT), working in concert with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has opened New England's first double-stack cleared intermodal route....
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Guangdong to target coatings?
There are growing signs that China's southern Guangdong Province, home to a number of the country's largest container manufacturing plants, may be moving towards a ban on the use of traditional solvent-borne coatings....
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...enough resources?
The re-tendering and award process of the 55 terminal concessions in Brazil will be the responsibility of the National Agency for Waterway Transport (Antaq), but questions have been asked as to whether the agency is up to the task of achieving this over the designated period, which is just six months. Antaq has to date awarded only five terminal concessions since it was first established in 2001, and many doubt that the organisation has the personnel or experience in place to handle such a major task. It has been charged with awarding all new concessions going forward as part of Brazil's drive to boost existing port infrastructure....
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Iran still investing in its ports
Despite tightening sanctions by governments from across the world, considerable investment is taking place in Iranian ports with approximately US$3.2B currently committed to around 150 individual projects....
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DNV/GL join forces
Two of the world's largest classification societies, Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and Germanischer Lloyd (GL), are to merge under the name DNV GL Group....
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Kunz RMGs to Stockholm
Jernhusen AB has ordered two widespan RMGs from Austria-based Hans Kunz GmbH for Arsta intermodal rail terminal in Stockholm as part of its continuing modernisation and expansion drive at the facility, which is operated for it by Logent AB. Slated for delivery this autumn, the RMGs weigh around 400t and will have a span of over 50m, and together they represent an investmnt of around SEK60M (€6.9M)....
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Chinese companies buy into Kaohsiung
Cosco Pacific, China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI) and China Shipping Terminal Development (CSTD) will pay US$135M to take a 30% stake in Kaohsiung's Kao Ming Container Terminal (KMCT)....
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German flag carriers to merge?
A press release issued jointly on 18 December by Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud on a possible merger did not take the market by surprise as rumours of "secret talks" have been circulating for some time....
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RINA backing for new UAE class society
Italy-based classification society, RINA Group, has been selected to support the development of a new classification society in the United Arab Emirates....
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WA in Freo sell-off?
The Western Australian government may look to resolve its long-running dispute with pr ivate port proponent Len Buckeridge by selling him Fremantle's bulk commodity terminal....
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Africa portal from SeaIntel
SeaIntel Maritime Analysis has launched an information-sharing portal with status updates on Africa's main container ports. Based on a Google map of Africa, it illustrates the status of 50 of the continent's ports at any time, updated by local independent editors....
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Weighbridges cut Botany overloads
The introduction of weighbridges at Sydney's container terminals has reportedly proved to be a major deterrent to the overloading of import containers....
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Vizhinjam project moves on
A copy of the 125-page master plan for the planned container transhipment terminal at Vizhinjam port in India's southern Kerala state, which has been approved by the board of Vizhinjam International Seaport, has been submitted to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is carrying out an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on the project....
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New intermodal terminals come on stream in Canada
Canadian Pacific (CP) and Canadian National (CN) have announced the opening of new intermodal terminals in Regina and Calgary respectively....
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No EIS needed for Webb Dock
No environmental impact statement (EIS) will be necessary for dredging associated with the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC)'s new Webb Dock container and automotive terminals thanks to a pre-existing agreement that has been recognised by the Victorian and Federal governments....
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