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Port Infrastructure Projects Underway in Virginia

Jul 22, 2015

U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx breaks ground on major infrastructure projects at the Port of Virginia; federal funding supports reduced congestion in nearby neighborhoods U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today joined Virginia Gov…

DP World Opens London Gateway Logistics Centre

Jul 22, 2015

DP World's first distribution centre at the London Gateway Logistics Park opened officially, with the UK's shipping minister, Robert Goodwill MP, in attendance. Goodwill and DP World chairman, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, formalised the opening of the centre during a ribbon cutting ceremony…

Eurostar Breaks Passenger Growth Record, Despite Calais Strike

Jul 22, 2015

Channel Tunnel rail operator Eurostar has reported record quarterly passenger numbers despite the disruption caused by strikes in Calais. Around 2.8 million passengers travelled on the high-speed service in the second quarter of this year…

BHP to Spend $240 mln on Iron Ore Tug-Boat

Jul 21, 2015

BHP Billiton plans to construct a new eight pen tug harbour at Hunt Point in Port Hedland, as well as purchase six additional tugs, for $US240 million ($A326 million). The investment will also include an upgrade of workshop facilities,…

Kansas Shipping Hub Announce Finalists

Jul 21, 2015

Seven finalists have been selected for the site of a proposed Kansas transload shipping center. The Kansas Department of Transportation/Kansas Turnpike Authority Transload Facility Site Analysis team selected the finalists from the 111 proposals submitted for consideration…

China to Roll out World's Largest Sea Plane

Jul 18, 2015

China has started assembling the world's largest amphibious aircraft which it plans to deploy in the disputed South China Sea besides aggressively marketing it abroad, state-run China Daily reported. “Since the first day of its development…

Egypt Completes New Waterway in Suez Canal

Jul 17, 2015

Egypt has completed dredging for the new shipping route in the Suez Canal, says the government sources. The mega national project ‘New Suez Canal’ is scheduled to be inaugurated on August 6. Egypt has invited all countries worldwide to…

Los Angeles Box Volumes Slip

Jul 16, 2015

June 2015 containerized cargo volumes at the Port of Los Angeles decreased 2 percent compared to the same period last year. The Port handled a total of 721,802 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in June 2015. Current and historical data is available here…

Kalmar Bags order from ÖBB-Infrastruktur

Jul 15, 2015

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has been awarded a valuable order from long-standing partner Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) to supply cargo handling equipment for general cargo and intermodal operation at the ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG terminals at Wolfurt…

Konescranes Receives Repeat Order for ARTG System

Jul 14, 2015

Konecranes iforms it has received a repeat order for an automated RTG (ARTG) system from PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III (Pelindo III) in Indonesia. The system includes nine automated RTG cranes. It will be delivered to Terminal Petikemas Semarang (TPKS)…

TOS, AutoGates Boost Liverpool Port Throughput

Jul 14, 2015

Peel Ports, owners and operators of the Port of Liverpool, has achieved a major milestone in its multi-million investment programme to transform the port into Europe’s first semi-automated container terminal. The Navis N4 Terminal Operating…

Estonian Port Passenger Number Up in June, Cargo Volume Down

Jul 09, 2015

The ports of the Estonian state-owned port operator Tallinna Sadam (Port of Tallinn) handled in June 1.68 million tonnes of cargo and serviced 1,045,461 passengers. Compared to the same period last year, the cargo volume dropped by 25% while the number of passengers was by 1…

Caspian Sea Port Link Opened

Jul 08, 2015

President Nursultan Nazarbayev has formally opened the Borzhakty – Ersai railway. The 13·9 km branch from the Aktau - Uzen line will serve a port which is being developed on the Caspian Sea near Kuryk. Construction of the line including the laying of 22·3 km of track was undertaken by Kamkor…

DP World Adds Browning as Supply Chain Manager

Jul 06, 2015

DP World London Gateway has appointed Andy Browning as Cargo Supply Chain Manager.Browning brings more than 30 years of experience designing and establishing global supply chain and logistics solutions that drive efficiency and unlock value…

Shipping Gloomiest Since 2009

Jul 06, 2015

The shipping industry is the most pessimistic in six years about its prospects as a fleet surplus persists, according to a survey by law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, says a report in Reuters. The growing vessel glut is battering sentiment…

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