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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 Zim vessel leaves Oakland After a four day delay caused by anti-Israel protestors converging on the Port of Oakland, the Zim Piraeus was worked and cleared to depart.... Click here for more Petkim Port project takes shape APM Terminals Izmir, which will operate the new container terminal being developed at Petkim Port, near Izmir, has ordered its first tranche of equipment for the facility... Click here for more ZPMC for Tampa The Port of Tampa Bay is finalising a contract for two new cranes with ZPMC.... Click here for more TTS into Peru TTS Group ASA has signed a contract for delivery of a ship lift and related equipment to SIMA in Peru... Click here for more Spit and Polish at last? The Polish port of Elblag may finally get its wish for a canal through the Vistula Spit... Click here for more Scorpio in for 3 x 19,200 TEU ships Monaco-based Scorpio Group has ordered three 19,200 TEU container vessels, the biggest containerships to date, for bareboat charter to Mediterranean Shipping Co... Click here for more Singapore Post buys F S Mackenzie Famous Holdings Pte Ltd, part of Singapore Post, has purchased the UK-based forwarder and NVOCC... Click here for more French act on rail safety RFF, the French rail track authority, will test a new radar system to improve safety at level crossings... Click here for more Virginia still in the red The Port of Virginia is getting its operating losses under control, but finished its 2014 financial year with a shortfall of $17.1M.... Click here for more Tampa wins mitigation award The Port of Tampa Bay has been recognised for its McKay Bay Restoration Project... Click here for more Containerlift awarded ISO9001 The certification is regarded as particularly important to Containerlift's UK and European heavy vehicle and crane operations... Click here for more Hamburg traffic up 6.6% in 1H/14 The port handled 72.6 Mt in the first half, with general cargo traffic accounting for 50.7 Mt, of which almost 50 Mt was containerised... Click here for more Train, truck and plane from China to Brazil DB Schenker has combined transportation by rail, road and air across three continents to ship goods from China to South America much faster than ocean freight... Click here for more Poole access improvements Access to the Port of Poole in England is set to be improved through an award of £66.3M... Click here for more Hupac posts 3.8% 1H/14 increase In the first half of 2014, Swiss combined transport operator Hupac posted growth of 3.8% in traffic to 339,725 shipments (ca 680,000 TEU)... Click here for more ITF "watching" Hutchison The International Transport Workers' Federation says that it is keeping a close eye on the corporate conduct of Hutchison Port Holdings in Panama and Indonesia... Click here for more New fertiliser terminal for Beira In the latest in a long line of expansion announcements for Mozambican ports, Cornelder has begun work on constructing a new fertiliser terminal at the Port of Beira at a cost of US$35M.... Click here for more Restoration plan for E40 waterway The inter-border commission on the development of the E40 waterway on the Dnieper-Vistula section has, according to its secretary Andrei Rekesh, invited tenders on restoration scenarios for the waterway, which concerns three riparian states, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine.... Click here for more AAE buys into Slovakian rail AAE Cargo AG, one of Europe's leading lessors and designers of standard rail freight cars, has acquired a 66% stake in Slovakian wagon operator Cargo Wagon for 7M. The remaining 34% of Cargo Wagon's shares will be held by ZSSK Cargo, the freight transport arm of Slovakian State Railways.... Click here for more Magdalena River set for upgrade Three groups have pre-qualified to bid for a contract to improve the navigability of the Magdalena River in Colombia. The work, which will take place along 700 km of the river, originally attracted interest from nine consortia in April 2013.... Click here for more More Ecofret wagons take to the rails VTG Rail UK has signed hire agreements for its Ecofret container wagons with two of the UK's biggest rail freight companies, Freightliner and GB Railfreight.... Click here for more Geelong under VRCA control Infrastructure projects at Victoria's second largest port, the privately-owned Geelong, are to be brought under the control of state body the Victorian Regional Channels Authority (VRCA) "to ensure a streamlined approach to prioritise and develop critical projects".... Click here for more Hoyer boosts tank fleet Hamburg-based bulk liquid logistics service provider Hoyer will expand its tank container fleet by a further 3,450 units by the end of 2016, boosting its total fleet to almost 35,500 units.... Click here for more P3 considered "too close an alliance" The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) has rejected the P3 alliance plans of Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CGM because it was considered to be more akin to a merger than an operating alliance.... Click here for more Maglev rail trial planned for Ust-Luga Russian Railways (RZD) has signed an agreement with Russia's State Nuclear Energy Corporation (Rosatom) for scientific and technical collaboration to test container transport using magnetic levitation at the country's Baltic port of Ust-Luga.... Click here for more SeaRoad orders first LNG ro-ro from FSG Tasmania-based SeaRoad Holdings has ordered the world's first LNG-fuelled pure freight ro-ro vessel from Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in Germany.... Click here for more Chinese pallets bugged Australia's Department of Agriculture (DoA) has issued an alert after the discovery of an infestation of exotic beetles in wooden pallets imported from China.... Click here for more ACL sticking with Liverpool Following a review of potential schedules, market potential and opportunities for its North Atlantic services, Atlantic Container Line (ACL) has decided to retain the Port of Liverpool as its UK port of call when its new, five-strong fleet of the world's largest ro-ro/container ships (CONROs) enters service from 2015.... Click here for more High cubes take the top spot Drewry Maritime Research's recently published Container Census report shows that 40ft high cube containers represented just short of 50% of the maritime container fleet of 34.5M TEU at the end of 2013.... Click here for more Contargo terminal for Wesel Duisburg-based multimodal logistics company Contargo GmbH & Co KG has signed an agreement with Deltaport GmbH to develop an intermodal terminal at the German inland port of Emmelsun/Wesel on the lower Rhine River.... Click here for more Yilport seeks partner Turkey's Yildirim Group is to sell a minority stake in Yilport Holding, its port operations and logistics group, and has appointed the investment bank JP Morgan as its financial adviser for the process.... Click here for more UP opens new terminal Union Pacific Railroad (UP) has officially opened its new Santa Teresa rail terminal in New Mexico, the latest facility on the railroad's 23-state network.... Click here for more ITCO publishes CR survey The International Tank Container Organisation (ITCO) has published a Corporate Responsibility Survey, the first time that the trade association has taken a detailed look at all aspects of corporate responsibility (CR) relevant to the tank container industry.... 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. 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