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ETICA(Eurotunnel Incentive for Capacity Additions) is aimed at boosting intermodal rail freight traffic via the Channel tunnel...
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Warning on rail freight charges
The British Rail Freight Group is concerned that higher access charges will drive traffic off the rails...
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Porto Central joint deal?
Rotterdam port authority and the Sultanate of Oman are considering a joint investment in a port in Brazil...
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Kim Fejfer pushes the productivity button
The CEO of APM Terminals is determined to push ahead with the company's "Global Transformation" programme...
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Ystad AMP-ing seminar
The southern Swedish port has invested heavily in cold ironing systems...
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Kalmar books deal for 25 stackers
The reach stacker order from GICEP in Algeria is worth around €10M...
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Long Beach executive director to resign
Christopher Lytle has stated that he will resign to take the top post at the Port of Oakland. Lytle will remain at Long Beach until mid-July, and is expected to begin his new job in Oakland shortly thereafter...
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Sunrise cancels soya purchases
The Chinese Sunrise group is to cancel purchases of almost 2 mt of soya from Brazil due to delays in loading consignments at ports. According to Shao Guori, the manager responsible for Sunrise's soya division, the company has not received the cargo, which he says amounts to a default on the part of the suppliers, because they failed to load it....
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Waters on the rise in France?
French inland waterways accounted for 7.738B tkms, or 2.3% of all land transport of goods in 2012. According to CAF, the committee of inland waterway vessel owners, this was the first time the 2% level has been breached in 25 years....
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Samskip Van Dieren expands rail service
Samskip Van Dieren Multimodal is expanding its intermodal network with the addition of a shuttle service between Duisburg and Almhult in Sweden....
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COA commissions flexitank standard
The Container Owners Association (COA) has commissioned the UK's national standards body, the British Standards Institution (BSI), to develop a standard for the manufacture and testing of flexitanks. A Publicly Available Specification (PAS 1008) is expected to be released later this year....
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New Valenciennes barge terminal
Around €10M is to be invested in a new container barge terminal on the Escaut (Schelde) at Saint-Saulve, just downstream of Valenciennes in France....
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NZ study finds boxes toxic...
A New Zealand study completed in May last year, but only released last month after an Official Information Act request, has found a high proportion of import containers contain dangerous gases....
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TCB Railway expanding
TCB Railway, part of Grup TCB, reports that it has reached a monthly transportation capacity of 17,000 TEU between the Port of Barcelona and hinterland intermodal terminals in Zaragoza, Vitoria, Selgua, Azuqueca de Henares, Burgos and Valladolid. "With the current operational capacity of 280 trains per month, TCB Railway has been responsible for the most ambitious railway commitment that has been seen in any Spanish port," said Xavier Moline, CEO of TCB Railway....
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Towards grey reefers?
International food freight forwarder foodcareplus and container lessor SeaCube Container Leasing have published a White Paper on the viability of establishing a new generation of independent refrigerated container pools to help address growing equipment repositioning and supply challenges in the world's containerised perishables trades....
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"Harmful" reefers come under EC scrutiny
Following a meeting in Brussels between representatives of Maersk Container Industry (MCI) and the European Commission (EC) on 20 March, investing in reefer containers may prove to be a riskier business than usual if owners continue to specify polyurethane insulation foam blown with HCFC141b....
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Warrant partners with Leschaco
Supply chain specialist Warrant Group has taken over the operational and commercial operations of the German Leschaco Group's deepsea ISO tank container business in the UK....
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MSC sets up rail subsidiary
MSC has set up a subsidiary, MSC Rail, in Portugal to operate container block trains between the port of Sines and freight terminals at Bobadela (Loures) and Entroncamento. The move, explained MSC Portugal's president Carlos Vasconcelos, was made because of uncertainties surrounding the possible privatisation of CP Carga, the freight arm of Portuguese Railways (CP). Doubts have been raised, he said, about future quality and service reliability....
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New crane for Frankfurt terminal
Contargo Rhein-Main GmbH, the container terminal in the Frankfurt Osthafen, has invested €5.2M in a new widespan bargeto-shore crane and a 6000 m2 extension of the working area....
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Cold store comes on stream in Savannah
Nordic Cold Storage has opened the first phase of a new, state-ofthe-art temperature-controlled storage and blast freezing facility close to the Port of Savannah....
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CBP to launch box cargo residue test programme
The National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) reports that US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials are to institute a pilot programme by October 2013 that will apply new requirements on containers and other conveyances that enter the US carrying cargo residues....
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First STS cranes for Pointe Noire
Two new STS gantry cranes have been installed at Congo Terminal in the port of Pointe Noire in Congo-Brazzaville. They are one tranche of a contract for eight cranes that will be delivered to the port during the course of this year and next from China....
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Ottmarsheim-Kaluga intermodal service
The French Upper Rhine ports of Mulhouse-Rhin (Ottmarsheim, Huningue and Ile Napoleon), managed by CCI Sud Alsace Mulhouse have played a key part in the development of a logistics chain for automotive parts dispatched by PSA Peugeot-Citroen to its car assembly plant in Kaluga, near Moscow....
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Single window for Kiwi shippers
New Zealand's Customs Service and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) will this month begin introducing a single electronic portal for imports and exports transiting the country's borders....
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Shipping companies should explore leasing solutions
International accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens says shipping companies should explore leasing opportunities as a way of adjusting their self-owned and chartered-in tonnage balance in response to the radical changes that have taken place in ship financing in recent years....
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Intermodal in the cloud
A new cloud-based intermodal freight brokerage, called Freight-Arranger, has completed user acceptance testing with two domestic intermodal operators in the UK and has proceeded to the next stage of "parallel bookings" testing on selected routes....
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Shippers urged to think barge
Imports by rail from Mexico into the US showed a large increase in January 2013, jumping over 18% to U$2.57B, according to data from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). According to Joseph P Linck Jr, CEO of Nafta Marine Highway Company and a former CEO of the Port of Brownsville, most of Mexican railborne cargoes pass through South Texas bridges at Laredo and Brownsville, which is located on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Many are long haul to the midwest and USEC and could, says Linck, "move via our inland waterway barges, saving shippers millions in rail freight bills."...
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New slewing crane for containers
Australia-based Prolift Solutions Pty Ltd has launched a new slewing jib crane designed to provide a safer means of lifting heavy loads into and out of standard ISO containers....
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IAS updates ChassisManager
International Asset Systems (IAS) has added a number of new features, simplified processes and new ocean carrier functionality to the ChassisManager program that is being used by Hampton Roads Chassis Pool (HRCP) to allow ocean carriers to exit the provisioning of chassis in the Port of Virginia....
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Unifeeder changes hands
Aarhus-based Unifeeder, which is one of the largest intra-North Europe container operators, is to be sold by Montagu Private Equity to Nordic Capital Fund VIII....
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SeaCube takeover completed
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) has completed the acquisition of SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd following approval of the transaction by SeaCube shareholders at a special general meeting held on 23 April 2013....
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...cleaning up in Oz
A joint government/industry initiative in Australia is streamlining biosecurity procedures for containers arriving from the Pacific region....
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Kellogg ups its green highway commitment
Global cereal company Kellogg has increased the volume of breakfast cereals it will transport using Peel Ports' "green highway network" on the Manchester Ship Canal container shuttle service....
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