| New strads for APMT Gothenburg
Terex (Noell) has entered the Gothenburg straddle carrier market for the first time with an order for 12 machines (+ 12) from APM Terminals...
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Cuxhaven expansion plan
A new berth is to be built at Germany's Port of Cuxhaven...
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CN's winter woes
CEO Claude Mongeau tells Trans-Pacific Maritime conference this winter has been a "once in a career event"....
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West Coast contract looms
Shippers at the Trans-Pacific Maritime conference in Long Beach heard that the Pacific Maritime Association is optimistic it can negotiate a new labour contract for the US West Coast without a major port disruption....
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North Continent range forecasts
Hackett Associates/ISL Bremen forecast that container traffic over the seven ports in the Le Havre-Hamburg range will increase by 3.3% this year and finally break through the 40M TEU barrier...
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Bechtel for LIGTT Louisiana
The multi-national design, engineering and building conglomerate will provide pre-construction management services to LIGTT Project Company LLC...
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Konecranes books ESLSE heavy FLT order
Konecranes Lifttrucks will supply 23 heavy FLTs to Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise...
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Tilbury wins new shortsea/feeder service
The new link will combine shortsea and feeder traffic moved over Rotterdam and covers Forth Ports' Tilbury and Grangemouth facilities...
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Krueger trailers for Steelbro
Steelbro has announced it has appointed Krueger Transport Equipment Pty Ltd as its supplier of sidelifter trailers for the Australian market....
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Lubeck/Travemunde-Klaipeda link
Limarko Group and Vlantana Logistics test a new ferry link...
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Stena acquires Ireland-France route
Stena Line has acquired the Irish-owned Celtic Link ferry service which operates from Rosslare-Cherbourg...
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Big ambitions for Berbera
The government of Somaliland in Hargeisa has announced plans to develop a large port with container, dry bulk and dry bulk terminals at Berbera, on the Gulf of Aden opposite Yemen. Somaliland is officially part of Somalia, but has been run as an independent state for more than two decades....
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China-Vostochny train demo
Last December, Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company (VSC) handled a Transcontainer demonstration train carrying containers from north eastern provinces in China for feedering over Vostochny for transhipment in Busan or ports in South China....
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Loksys tracks charity container to Ghana
UK-based Loksys Solutions has provided one of its Trakalok devices to monitor the movement of a 40ft container, loaded with donated medical goods, destined for the Pantang Hospital in Accra, Ghana....
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TEN-T funds for Cork
Ireland's Port of Cork has been awarded funding by the EC's Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TENT EA) for the future development of port facilities in Ringaskiddy....
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MSC opts for dry port in Vilnius
Mediterranean Shipping Company is planning to set up an intermodal dry port in the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius. A letter of intent for the project has been signed between Lithuanian Railways (LG) and MSC....
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Townsville offers berth
North Queensland's Port of Townsville has called for expressions of interest in the redevelopment and operation of the port's main multi-purpose facility, Berth 4....
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Murmansk box plan
Russia's Norilsk Nickel (NN), the world's leading producer of nickel and palladium, is constructing a dedicated container terminal at the Barents Sea port of Murmansk, on a 19,000 m2 plot of land formerly the site of a ship repair yard. A 5000 m2 warehouse and a new railway approach track will also be constructed....
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Monster cranes at ECT
Five 72.5m outreach, 50m lift height cranes have arrived at ECT Rotterdam from China. The erect cranes from ZPMC were shipped on ZHEN HUA 26 and arrived in Rotterdam following a two month ocean voyage from Shanghai, via the Cape. They are being installed at ECT Delta Terminal, Maasvlakte 1, on the south side of the ECT Delta peninsula....
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Spotlight on reefers at Intermodal Asia 2014
Reefer containers will be under the spotlight at the inaugural Intermodal Asia 2014 exhibition and conference from 1-3 April at the Shanghai World Expo Center....
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Tex wins new CMS contract
Textainer, the world's biggest container lessor by fleet size, has been awarded the latest US Department of Defense Container Management Streamlining (CMS) Master Lease Contract....
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Road legislation proposal to harm intermodality?
A number of European transport associations in the road-rail, rail and inland waterways sector have issued a common statement on vehicle weights and dimensions in response to the upcoming vote in the European Parliament on the amendment of Directive 96/53....
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More straddles for Southampton
DP World Southampton has strengthened its straddle carrier fleet by taking delivery of six brand new Kalmar machines at a cost of over £3.6M....
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Darwin calls time on STS crane
Darwin Port Corporation (DPC) will undertake a feasibility study into the purchase of a new STS gantry for the East Arm Wharf after concluding that its 1984-vintage unit is not worth repairing....
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DCLI opts for radial tyres
Direct ChassisLink Inc (DCLI) has announced that it will replace bias ply tyres with radials across its entire chassis fleet....
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Logistics hub for Suez?
In early January Reuters reported that Egypt has invited 14 consortia to bid to prequalify for a massive project to develop the Suez Canal area....
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NYK acquires Tranco
NYK Group has increased its stake in Tranco Terminal, the largest car handling terminal in Kazakhstan, in Almaty, from 25% to 100%. The terminal opened in January 2009 and in October that year NYK Holding Europe BV purchased a 25% stake. The purchase of the outstanding shares has also been made through this vehicle, and operations have recommenced under the new name of NYK Auto Logistics (Kazakhstan) LLP....
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New port in Zarubino
Russia's Summa Group is understood to have begun construction of a new harbour at Zarubino on Trinity Bay in the RFE, just 20 km from the land borders with North Korea and China. The new harbour could eventually have four terminals along 3000m of quay frontage, for containers (up to 1 M TEU/year), ro-ro (500,000 units/year), general and bulk cargoes (40 Mtpa) and grain (10 Mtpa)....
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New Germany-Turkey multimodal service
Samskip Multimodal and Intercombi Tranport, an affiliate of Turkey-based logistics company Turkey Netlog Logistics Group, have launched Green-Bridge Multimodal, an integrated local trucking and rail-sea package linking Europe and Turkey over Trieste....
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Quala bags ProKleen
Quala, North America's largest independent provider of tank container, tank trailer and IBC cleaning, testing and depot services, has acquired ProKleen, which specialises in chemical tank cleaning and ISO tank container depot services and operates Canada's only fullservice commercial foodgrade tank wash facility....
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Rocha port in the frame
According to the office of the President of Uruguay, the two priority infrastructure projects identified for 2014 are construction of the Rocha deepwater port and renovation of the country's rail network....
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Government split over Melbourne sale...
Differences of opinion within Victoria's Liberal/National coalition government are muddying the waters for the possible privatisation of the port of Melbourne....
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Changes in Spain?
Spanish newspaper Europa Sur recently reported that Hanjin Shipping is looking to sell up to a 49% stake in its TTI Algeciras (TTIA) container terminal....
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Rail freight sell-off underway in Slovakia
Slovakia's national rail freight operator ZSSK Cargo has started an international selection procedure in two rounds to sell major shareholdings in its subdivisions, Cargo Wagon (66%) and ZSSK Cargo Intermodal (controlling interest). These were created last year as separate operating companies in order to prepare for privatisation....
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...PCP decisions close
Successful bidders for the major contracts in Melbourne's Port Capacity Project at Webb Dock are expected to be known well ahead of the original schedule, according to retiring Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC) CEO Stephen Bradford....
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Extra fumigation capacity in Miami
Following an expansion of its fumigation facilities last summer, the Port of Miami has announced that it is now able to process up to 6,000 pallets of fruit and vegetables per day....
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New IICL chairman
Celine Wei, president of Florens Container Services USA, has been elected to the position of chairman of the Institute of International Container Lessors (IICL) for 2014, succeeding Jeremy Matthew, Group CEO of Seaco Srl....
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Hoyer adds e-learning
Hamburg-based bulk liquids logistics service provider Hoyer has introduced a new e-learning programme to allow its employees to brush up on their knowledge of dangerous goods using online training courses....
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Scandlines back in for ferries
Following the collapse of a plan to order two new ferries from STX Finland (Rauma) for the Gedser-Rostock crossing, Scandlines is again considering the option of buying two partiallybuilt ferries that, in 2012, it rejected from [the now] bankrupt German shipyard P&S Werften because the ferries failed to comply with its specifications - specifically the ships were "over draft" and could not, therefore, access, the Port of Gedser....
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SPC Norway unveils CargoFerry design
The Norwegian Short Sea Shipping Promotion Centre (SPC Norway) recently presented details of its eco-friendly CargoFerry (GodsFergen) project to the EU Commission (DG Move) and representatives of the ministries of EU countries....
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