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Great Lakes Limestone Trade Down 9% in 2016

Jan 03, 2017

Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 26.3 million tons in 2016, a decrease of 9.3 percent compared to 2015, reported Lake Carriers’ Association (LCA). Loadings in 2016 were also 5.3 percent below the trade’s five-year average. Loadings from U…

Colombo Port Volumes Surpasses 2mln TEUs

Jan 02, 2017

Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) has reported a throughput of two million TEUs  for the 12 months ending 31 December 2016, a year-on-year growth of 28 percent in volume, enabling the Port of Colombo to register overall incremental growth during three consecutive years…

New CEO for Antwerp Port Authority as from January 1st

Dec 30, 2016

Jacques Vandermeiren is Chief Executive Officer and President of the Executive Committee of Antwerp Port Authority as of 1 January 2017. Until January 2015 Vandermeiren was CEO and President of the Executive Committee of the network operator Elia…

Hamburg Mulls Navigation Channel Expansion

Dec 30, 2016

The adjustment of the navigation channel on the Lower and Outer Elbe is the most important strategic expansion project for the Port of Hamburg.  In view of the rapidly growing ships, Hamburg is dependent on adapting its seaward access to this technical development in the long term…

HPH Trust Acquires Major Stake in Huizhou Terminal

Dec 30, 2016

Hong Kong Container port business trust Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) has reached an agreement to purchase a majority stake in Huizhou International Container Terminals Limited (HICT) in Guangdong from the trust’s sponsor for about $86…

Hanjin Sells Operations at Port of Seattle

Dec 29, 2016

Bankrupt South Korean shipping company Hanjin will sell its operations of the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 46 to Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping COmpany (MSC) subsidiary Terminal Investment Limited (TIL), reports AP. The Seattle Times…

SCPA Making All the Right Moves

Dec 29, 2016

What does it take to become – and Stay – a World Class Port in a Post-Panamax world? The South Carolina Ports Authority thinks it has the answers. In late October, the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) reported year-over-year growth during the first quarter of its 2017 fiscal year…

FMC Green Lights Miami Terminal Partnership

Dec 29, 2016

An agreement between two marine terminal companies located at the Port of Miami will go into force on December 31, 2016, permitting those parties to seek cooperation and commonality in both business and operating matters. The U.S. Federal…

Antwerp Port Hits Record Volume

Dec 29, 2016

The port of Antwerp will close 2016 with an expected record volume of more than 214 million tonnes of freight handled. The shipping container volume for its part has risen above 10 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units, i.e. standard containers) for the first time in the history of the port…

Three New STS Quay Cranes at Khalifa Port

Dec 28, 2016

Abu Dhabi Terminals (ADT) announced the arrival of three of the largest ship-to-shore quay cranes in the world, to accommodate growing volumes and demand at Khalifa Port Container Terminal (KPCT), WAM reports. Transported from China on specially-built vessels…

Transshipments at Port of Gdansk Exceed Last Year's Record

Dec 28, 2016

2016 is not yet over, but the volume of transshipments is already higher than in the previous record year, being currently estimated at more than 36.3 million tonnes.  This is a result which, until recently, would have been out of reach for any Polish port…

Ports of Stockholm Container Volume Zoom

Dec 28, 2016

A new record has been set for the number of containers transported to the Container Terminal at Frihamnen. Never before have so many containers been transported by sea directly to the strongest growing capital city region in Europe and Sweden's largest consumer market…

India Rolls out Sagarmala Development Company for USD 15 Bln Maritime Push

Dec 26, 2016

India's Minister of Shipping Nitin Gadkari has said that projects worth Rs. 1 Lakh Crore (USD 15 Bln)  under Sagarmala programme are at various stages of implementation and development.  He was speaking to the press at a ceremony  to inaugurate…

Wan Hai Join TBS Service with “K” Line

Dec 26, 2016

Taiwan's Wan Hai Lines Ltd will expand further on its already extensive south-east Asia network by joining Thailand-Belawan Service (also known as TBS) on 7th of January 2017, to provide a direct service from Thailand to Belawan. The service will be jointly operated with 'K' Line…

Freight Rates Jump after Hanjin Collapse

Dec 26, 2016

The cost of transporting containers from ports now shows signs of recovery after the fall of Hanjin Shpiping Co after a period of down play, says a report in Business Korea. It appears that the strategy of Maersk Line, the world’s largest…

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