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Click here for more New locos for Angola New locomotives have been bought for the newly renovated Mocamedes Railway that runs from the southern port of Namibe eastwards across southern Angola to the town of Menongue... Click here for more Box traffic to hit 1 billion TEU in 2020 China and transhipment expected to be the main growth drivers.... Click here for more 6000 new swap bodies for DB DB Schenker buys 6000 swap bodies from Krone for system freight in Europe... Click here for more Lindsay Goldberg for CUT and WUT Hyundai Merchant Marine in deal to sell US terminals to New York-based private equity investor.... Click here for more CMA CGM ELBE enters the CMA CGM fleet The 9400 TEU vessel is the second in a series of 28 9400-10,900 TEU vessels being delivered through to 3Q/2016 and follows delivery of CMA CGM DANUBE in June... Click here for more Storms cause Port Botany chaos The Sydney region was hit by storms of unprecedented ferocity last night (14 October), tearing containerships from their Port Botany berths and causing widespread damage at terminals.... Click here for more Moin clears hurdle Port workers Union loses appeal against APM Terminals concession at Moin, Costa Rica.... Click here for more ABB for Lazaro Cardenas ABB will supply electrical infrastructure and crane automation for new terminal in Mexico.... Click here for more G6 to cut transpacific capacity With the winter season fast approaching the G6 Alliance has announced a near 4% reduction in its Asia/US east coast network capacity.... Click here for more OPDR starts Agadir-Europe service The new service will be launched by OPDR Maroc, with its HQ in Casablanca... Click here for more Konecranes for Guatemala Konecranes has reported an order for five RTGs from Terminal de Contenedores Quetzal SA... Click here for more Nicaragua Canal progress Construction work on the controversial US$50B Pacific-Atlantic landbridge project is set to start in December... Click here for more Paranagua expansion plan TCP Paranagua has announced a long-term investment plan worth more than US$450M... Click here for more Wilhelmshaven planning tool Belgium-based Ecorys has installed its "Intermodal Links" intermodal planner for Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven... Click here for more Bilbao posts small increase Traffic in Span's biggest north coast port was up slightly in the first half of this year... Click here for more SICK adds MICAS Acquisition adds radar sensors to SICK's laser-based collision avoidance line up.... Click here for more Lines driving the fall in box price? The used container market could be under pressure from shipping lines looking to market their boxes directly.... Click here for more CSAV/HL merger progress The merger of CSAV's and Hapag-Lloyd's (HL) liner shipping divisions moved a stage closer in early August when the US regulatory authorities tasked with investigating the deal, specifically the US Department of Justice and the country's Federal Trade Commission, approved the plan.... Click here for more La Poste adds a rail element to delivery The French Postal Service is looking to reintroduce a significant element of rail into its national letters and parcels distribution services, in the shape of combi-transport.... Click here for more Doubts over Basle terminal Plans for a third dock and another trimodal terminal in the Swiss Port of Basle (Terminal Basel Nord) have been thrown into confusion.... Click here for more Watertruck pilot gets underway Several pilot projects are underway on some of Belgium's smaller waterways under the auspices of "Watertruck", an EU Interreg IVB project aimed at re-launching small waterways for freight and relieving road congestion.... Click here for more Singamas profit halves Singamas has reported a decline in H1 2014 net profits from US$27.49M to US$13.27M. Consolidated revenue was up 16.9% to US$678.74M, but the average selling price for its containers did not rise in line with increasing demand in Q2.... Click here for more Transnet secures loco funding Transnet has secured a ZAR6B (US$562M) funding guarantee from the US export credit agency US-Exim for the financing of 233 diesel locomotives from General Electric (GE).... Click here for more Globe Tracker/ RTE deal Globe Tracker International (GTI) has announced a partnership with Refrigerated Transport Electronics (RTE) to deliver "seamless, integrated, wire-less tracking monitoring and remote management of refrigerated containers for global intermodal transportation".... Click here for more Cost-cutting drives profit for Maersk AP Moller-Maersk has published its interim report for Q2 2014 and its core liner shipping business is performing better than expected. Maersk Line made a profit of US$547M and achieved a ROIC of 10.8% (8.5%).... Click here for more Second Suez Canal plan The Egyptian Government has announced that it will spend over US$4B on building a second Suez Canal.... Click here for more and signs deal with CSCL PIL has also signed an agreement with Shanghai-headquartered China Shipping Group (CSG), the country's second-largest shipping conglomerate, to explore ways of working together in areas such as liner services, container leasing and box manufacturing.... Click here for more Maruba pulls river barges Argentine shipping line Maritima Maruba has withdrawn all its barge services on the Parana River operated by Compania Argentina de Remolque de Empuje (CARE), the only Argentine company transporting containers on the river. Terminals affected are at Las Palmas, Zarate, Rosario and Santa Fe.... Click here for more Inventors protect new reefer power system A patent on a contactless reefer container power supply system designed by four Japanese inventors has been published.... Click here for more PIL upgrades services Singapore's largest privately owned shipowner, Pacific International Lines (PIL), has taken steps to substantially upgrade its liner services between the Far East and the west coasts of India/ Pakistan and the Far East/Middle East recently.... Click here for more Scorpio-Samsung super deal Monaco-based Scorpio Group has announced its arrival into the container shipping sector in the biggest way possible by placing orders with Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea for the largest container ships in the world.... Click here for more CIMC upbeat despite decline China International Marine Containers (CIMC) has recorded a net profit of RMB322.72M in its box building business in H1 2014, representing a 21.33% decline from RMB410.226M in the corresponding period of 2013.... Click here for more Lost boxes overstated A World Shipping Council (WSC) survey shows the number of containers lost at sea annually is significantly exaggerated in the media.... Click here for more Hamburg Sud acquires CCNI Hamburg Sud (HS) of Germany and Valparaiso (Chile)-headquartered Compania Chilena de Navegacion Interoceanica SA (CCNI) have signed a preliminary agreement whereby the former company will acquire the container liner activities of CCNI, including related general agency activities.... Click here for more JOIN US ON LINKEDIN The WorldCargo News LinkedIn group complements WCN in print and online and offers you the opportunity to discuss key issues and network with your peers and a wide cross-section of industry experts. Join the discussion now at http://lnkd.in/x932Pg 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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