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CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LATEST WCN E-NEWSLETTER IN YOUR BROWSER Welcome to the latest eNewsletter from the publishers of WorldCargo News, the world's leading resource for international cargo professionals. Click here to view a sample issue of WorldCargo News and subscription information. Click here for information on advertising in print or online. Market Briefing Euromax handles millionth truck ECT's Euromax has handled one million trucks, representing 1.3M containers, since it opened for business in 2008... Click here for more New crane contract for Noell China Noell Crane Systems (China) Limited has reported a new US$33M contract for four STS and six RTG cranes with Indonesian inter-island shipping company Meratus Lines.... Click here for more Long Beach set to approve grain facility The Port of Long Beach is expected to issue a Harbour Development Permit for Total Terminals International's Grain Export Terminal Installation project at its meeting on September 16.... Click here for more People on the move Latest appointments and departures in the shipping and allied sectors known to WorldCargo News... Click here for more London Gateway wins data storage award The IT team at DP World's London Gateway terminal has won an award for its "highly flexible state-of-the-art datacentre architecture" at the NetApp 9th Annual Innovation Awards in Silicon Valley, California.... Click here for more Bristol push from Colliers Colliers International has stepped up calls to push ahead with the deep sea container terminal at Avonmouth "following an upsurge in freight business... Click here for more ZPMC shut out of India Indian media and financial press are abuzz with the news that ZPMC has been denied security clearance to supply six STS cranes and 20 RTGs to Gammon Infrastructure Projects for its new Indira Container Terminal (ICT) at India's Mumbai port.... Click here for more Klaipeda-Sassnitz rail ferry to cease DFDS has announced that it will suspend the service later this year... Click here for more More 18,000 TEU ships on order Hong Kong Asset Management has placed an order for three more 18,000 TEU ships with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engieering... Click here for more Global Ports to acquire NCC Practically all Russia's container handling capacity in the Russian Baltic will be concentrated in Global Ports Investments' hands... Click here for more New crane for Gabon Another new mobile harbour crane has been acquired for Portek's operations in Port d'Owendo and Port Gentil... Click here for more Cargo incident cases quantified by CINS The Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS), an initiative set up by a number of shipping lines and managed by the Container Owners Association (COA), has identified that 24% of cargo incident cases are due to misdeclaration of the cargo and a further 37% to poor or incorrect packing.... Click here for more More post-Panamax car carriers Swedish shipping company Wallenius Lines has ordered two 8000 CEU capacity, post-Panamax PCTCs, for deployment by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), Wallenius's 50:50 joint venture with Norway's Wilh. Wilhelmsen. While Wilhelmsen has already placed an order for two 8000 CEU PCTCs with Hyundai Heavy Industries, Wallenius has placed its order with Chinese shipyard Tianjin Xingang Shipbuilding, which is part of CSIC group, the government-owned Northern Shipyard Group of China.... Click here for more Metro Ports into Prince Rupert Metro Ports Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nautilus International Holding Corp, has signed an agreement with Pinnacle Renewable Energy to operate its new wood pellet export terminal at Prince Rupert in British Columbia.... Click here for more New TRAC chassis In response to customer requests, TRAC Intermodal has introduced the TRAC Titan, a premium 40ft gooseneck chassis that is available for daily use by motor carriers in the New York/New Jersey and Savannah/Charleston markets.... Click here for more Tenerife eyes African cargo A new container terminal has been developed in Tenerife to handle cargo moving between Africa, Europe and North America. The new facility has been developed and will be operated by Terminal de Contenedores de Tenerife (TCT), under a 30 year concession awarded by Santa Cruz de Tenerife port authority (APSCT) last February.... Click here for more Trieste gets a boost Around half of the 90M earmarked to develop Molo VII in the Port of Trieste will go on Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) for which TO Delta group, the general agent for Evergreen, has an operating concession until 2031.... Click here for more Intermodal stalls in the UK Domestic intermodal rail freight in the UK (mostly shipping containers moved over Felixstowe and Southampton) stabilised at 6.30 Btkms in the 2012-13 period, according to the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR). This was marginally down on the 6.31 Btkms recorded in 2011-12. The latter figure represented a growth rate of 11% compared to 2010-11. Over the past few years, intermodal has outperformed the overall rail freight market, despite deepsea container traffic volumes struggling to regain their pre- 2008-09 dynamics.... Click here for more Transnet locos to be delivered on time Contrary to reports in the South African media, transport utility Transnet insists that the 95 locomotives it ordered from China South Railway (CSR), but mainly manufactured in South Africa, will be delivered on time as part of a fairly awarded contract.... Click here for more MoorMaster in Norway Cavotec has secured an order for its MoorMaster automated mooring technology at a new bulk handling application in Norway. The project is its largest single MoorMaster order in Europe to date.... Click here for more CCIA teams with Informa on Intermodal Asia The China Container Industry Association (CCIA) and Informa Exhibitions have formed a cooperation partnership to launch Intermodal Asia 2014.... Click here for more Klinge adding production staff Following significant business growth, US-based specialised reefer equipment manufacturer Klinge Corporation has announced plans for a significant increase in its production staff.... Click here for more CakeBoxx partners with M-Pak CakeBoxx Technologies, the developer of the CakeBoxx range of doorless intermodal containers, has entered into an agreement with M-Pak, Inc to make CakeBoxx products available to US federal government agencies through M-Pak's General Services Administration (GSA) contract. Federal agencies may now directly purchase the highly secure CakeBoxx containers directly through M-Pak's GSA portal.... Click here for more Maher back to normal Maher Terminals and Navis have issued a joint statement that the "implementation of the new operating systems at Maher's Elizabeth, NJ, facility has turned the corner, as service has returned to acceptable levels during the past several weeks, albeit at reduced volume."... Click here for more Work on Djen Djen to start this year Building work on a planned new container terminal at the Algerian port of Djen Djen is expected to commence later this year, according to local press reports and to people familiar with the project.... Click here for more Exis building Hazcheck restrictions portal As with most shipping trades, containership operators charter space on their vessels to partner lines to offer customers a wider delivery network than that serviced by their own vessels as well as to boost slot utilisation.... Click here for more 30th rail service for Felixstowe Rail services from the Port of Felixstowe have been boosted with the start of the latest new service from the UK's largest container port. The new service, operated by Freightliner Limited, is the port's 30th daily rail service, and runs to Doncaster in South Yorkshire.... Click here for more New Scandlines ro-pax ferries Danish-German ferry operator Scandlines has signed a letter of intent with the STX Shipyard in Finland for the construction of two new ro-pax ferries for its liner service between Rostock and Gedser.... Click here for more US intermodal on the up Latest Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) figures show a 9% increase in rail intermodal volumes of domestic containers in North America.... Click here for more P&I Club launches reefer campaign The UK's North P&I Club has launched a campaign to help its members reduce their growing exposure to cargo damage claims when carrying reefer containers.... Click here for more Antwerp up by 2% in 1H The port of Antwerp handled 95.662 Mt of freight during the first six months of this year, an increase of 2% in comparison with the same period in 2012. Liquid bulk in particular showed strong growth, especially petroleum derivatives. "In combination with the investments recently announced, these half-year figures lead us to be cautiously optimistic for the first semester," declared Port Authority CEO Eddy Bruyninckx.... Click here for more New cargo monitors US-based Instrumented Sensor Technology, Inc (IST) has introduced its latest tri-axial shock, vibrations, temperature and humidity recorder for cargo shipped on pallets, in crates, trucks, rail cars, shipping containers etc.... Click here for more NewPort/Talke team up in Saudi International tank container operator NewPort Tank Containers has entered into a joint venture with Talke Group's Saudi Arabian subsidiary to support the booming chemical industry in the Middle East.... Click here for more Pipavav doubles up with high cube boxes The first double-stack high cube container train left APM Terminals (APMT) Pipavav this month carrying 180 TEU destined for Container Corporation of India (CONCOR)'s new double-stack hub at Kathuwas in the north west Indian state of Rajasthan.... Click here for more New funds for Dar es Salaam A total of US$211M is to be invested in infrastructural improvements at the port of Dar es Salaam over the next year, including seven deeper berths, dredging work and new silos. The Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) announced the funding for financial year 2013-14 as part of its strategy to compete with the neighbouring port of Mombasa in Kenya.... Click here for more Unsubscribing You can change your selection of content in your Market Briefing from WorldCargo News Online, or unsubscribe at any time. Click here and then click on 'Edit your email Alert' to modify your selection or to unsubscribe. 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