| UASC places US$1.4B boxship contract
Dubai-based United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) is to invest US$1.4B in new ships, a move that will see it forge an even closer relationship with China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and at the same take control of the largest containerships in the world....
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Every picture tells a story?
Does this CGI of London Gateway tell us anything about the identity of the first Asia-Europe carrier?...
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Timor-Leste invites bids
Private sector bids are being solicited for a PPP to develop the Port of Tibar Bay...
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Peel Ports continues Liverpool upgrade
Peel Ports has awarded Farrans Construction in £9M contract to upgrade Gladstone Lock and the container terminal quay...
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Challenges for Thamesport?
This smaller part of Hutchison Ports (UK) Ltd is faced with a reduction in throughput...
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New Clean Truck proposals
New legislation is being introduced in Washington...
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CargoWise for CMA CGM Logistics
CMA CGM Logistics will adopt ediEnterprise through CargoWise's WiseCloud cloud technology...
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GAX calls Port Everglades
Hapag Lloyd's PHILADELPHIA EXPRESS recently made the first GAX call at the South Florida port...
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More auto business for Novorossiysk
Global Container Services has won two more customers for the supply chain services it operates via the Russian port of Novorossiysk...
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Naming Ceremony for EVER LIVING
Evergreen Group has held the naming ceremony for its first L-type vessel built by CSBC Corporation in Taiwan, the EVER LIVING...
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Hoist books major US DoD deal
The Illinois-based lift truck maufacturer has won a rolling contract of major proportions from the Defense Logistics Agency...
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Invitation for Expression of Interest
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The Government of Timor-Leste, through the Ministry of Transport and Communications, is seeking to develop Tibar Bay Port and wishes to invite private sector participation to enter into a Public Private Partnership arrangement for the Project.
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G4S inks security pact with TMSA/TMPA
Morocco's Agence Speciale Tanger Mediterranee (TMSA) and Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA) have signed a three year deal with G4S, the world's largest secur ity outsourcing group....
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Portek books more crane upgrade jobs
Singapore-based Portek International, part of Mitsui group, has reported several orders for port crane upgrades worth around US$5M in total....
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Growing interest in Sao Tome
Brazilian and Angolan companies have expressed an interest in bidding to develop a new deepwater container port on the island of Sao Tome in the Central African state of Sao Tome and Principe. The country's Prime Minister Gabriel Costa has revealed that several unnamed Angolan companies are interested in developing the project....
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New tracked Stormajor
Samson Materials Handling, part of Germany-based Aumund Group, has launched Stormajor BF40415, a tracked derivation of the popular rubber-tyred Stormajor principle for stockpiling, barge loading, ship loading and rail wagon loading. The new design is aimed at arduous applications on rough surfaces and can deliver a capacity of 625 m3/h for products with densities of up to 1.6t/m3....
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FLT tie-up in France
The Bozoni Auramo and Meyer brands of fork lift attachments are now under one roof in France. Italy-based Bolzoni group acquired Germany's Hans H Meyer Group in 2006, but it has taken time to work through the brands and dealerships and bring everything together. The French tie-up follows hard on the heels of the tie-up in Italy....
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Kalmar in SITA crane refurbishment deal
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has won another order to retrofit and upgrade STS cranes, following on from recent awards in Argentina and the completion of a major crane height raise project at the MSC Home Terminal in Antwerp....
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Ortec launches new radiation monitor
US-based Advanced Measurement Technology Inc (AMETEK)'s Ortec Products Group has launched a new spectroscopic portal monitor designed for primary radiation screening in container, truck, rail and air cargo applications....
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Apapa prepares for RTGs
Five new eco-RTGs are scheduled for delivery to APM Terminals (APMT)'s Apapa terminal in Nigeria within the next month as part of the third phase of a US$135M upgrade programme....
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ICTSI to take legal action against BSP
Manila-headquartered terminal operating company International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) is to seek judicial arbitration over what it describes as an "extremely adversarial approach" from the new management at Batumi Sea Port (BSP) over its container, ferry and general cargo operations at the Georgian port....
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Green light for Santos terminal
Brasil Terminal Portuario (BTP), the new container and liquid bulk handling facility at the Brazilian Port of Santos, has finally received an operating licence from The Brazilian Institute of Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA)....
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Taranto dispute settled
The dispute over bulk handling rights that threatened the 300M plans to upgrade Taranto Container Terminal (TCT) for Hutchison and Evergreen appears to have been settled....
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Pasajes to go under regional control?
The Basque autonomous government in Spain has called on the Financial Development Ministry in Madrid to allow it to take over the management of the Port of Pasaia (Pasajes)....
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New Zealand firm in Fiji joint venture
A joint venture between New Zealand's United Containers Ltd (UCNZL) and Fiji's Hong-Tiy family has opened a new container depot in the Pacific nation's capital, Suva, which is playing an increasing role as a hub port for regional and east-west mainline services....
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Brazil earmarks 50 concessions
Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff has released the names of the first 50 port terminals that could be constructed by the private sector using the new regulatory framework that came into force on 5 June. One of these is located at Guaruja, at the start of the access channel to the Port of Santos, which is being promoted by the Brazilian branch of the Italian multinational company Saipem....
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Himoinsa adds RTG gensets
Spain-based Himoinsa, which specialises in the manufacture and sale of power generation systems, recently supplied gensets for five rubber-tyred Paceco Transtainers built by Paceco Espana SA....
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Konecranes breakthrough in Oz
Konecranes has confirmed an order for four RMGs from Asciano's Pacific National (PN), Australia's largest private rail freight operator. The investment in these cranes is part of larger modernisation projects at PN's terminals in Sydney and Melbourne. The cranes will be delivered during 2014 and 2015, two of them to Sydney Freight Terminal (SFT) and two to Melbourne Freight Terminal (MFT)....
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Nooteboom delivers major order to ALE
UK-based, global heavy lift and transportation specialist ALE recently placed a multi-million euro order with Nooteboom Trailers for 16 vehicles for the transport of wind turbine parts. Almost all the (mostly 8-axle) extendible semi low-loaders and 4-axle Quatro extendible Telesteps have by now been delivered....
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LPS 600s in Gdansk
Two Liebherr LPS 600 rail portalmounted cranes for dedicated bulk handling have recently been delivered and installed at Port Polnocny Co Ltd (PPS), the Sea-Invest group company in the Port of Gdansk....
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Container weighing from Strainstall
UK-based Strainstall Marine states that its container weighing system (CWS) will soon be in use in the Port of Felixstowe and is being considered by other operators in Europe, Chile and North America. Available in numerous formats, a twistlock version of the CWS has already been installed on a straddle carrier spreader in Tilbury....
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Melbourne not for sale
In an announcement greeted with some scepticism in political and industry circles, new Victorian Ports Minister David Hodgett has declared that the state government has no intention of privatising the port of Melbourne....
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Calabar controversy
After at least eight years' delay, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) revealed earlier this year that a contract to dredge the port of Calabar would be awarded by July. Calabar, which is located in the far south east of the country, was historically a very important port, but a combination of silting, underinvestment and the domination of the Lagos ports have seen it lose ground. As planned, the dredging project and a contract to maintain the harbour's access channels have now been awarded to Niger Global Engineering....
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Kombiverkehr expands in Rostock
Germany's Kombiverkehr, part of DB Schenker Rail and Europe's biggest UIRR company, has announced a major expansion programme in the German Baltic port of Rostock. Rostock Trimodal GmbH (RTM), in which Kombiverkehr has a 25.2% stake and Port of Rostock vehicles SHRU Beteiligungsfond GmbH and HERO 64.8% and 10% respectively, is increasing its "footprint" by 2-ha to 7-ha....
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Big spend planned in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh-headquartered Saudi Ports Authority (SPA) is planning to spend SAR3.4B (US$914M) on expanding the country's ports, with over 80% of the capital budget earmarked for Dammam where a second 1.8M TEU/year capacity terminal is under construction....
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