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DP World's Q4 Dubai Box Traffic Sags

Feb 05, 2019

DP World reported a fall of 4.6 percent in fourth-quarter shipping container volumes in Dubai that the government-controlled port operator blamed on a drop in low-margin business.Dubai's Jebel Ali, the largest transshipment port in the United Arab Emirates…

Sri Lanka Port Strike Ends

Feb 05, 2019

Sri Lankan customs officers on Tuesday called off a strike that left 6,000 containers stranded at the country's main port and put pressure on food prices, after the government agreed to reinstate their boss for three months.The strike by thousands…

SCPA: Record January Container Volume

Feb 05, 2019

South Carolina Ports Authority announced the strongest January on record and 12.5 percent fiscal year-over-year growth of container volume.SCPA handled 205,689 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) last month. Since the Port’s fiscal year began in July…

GPA: Six 14,000-TEU Vessels Simultaneously

Feb 05, 2019

Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch unveiled GPA's Big Berth/Big Ship program that will allow the Port of Savannah to simultaneously handle six 14,000 TEU vessels by 2024.'No other single container terminal in North America has the ability to expand berth capacity at this rate…

Milaha Launches BSX

Feb 04, 2019

Middle East's maritime and logistics company Milaha (Qatar Navigation) will start a direct container shipping service connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean in its first foray into Europe.According to a press release from the Qatar-based…

Oman Mulls Investment in Chabahar Port

Feb 04, 2019

Oman’s Ambassador to Tehran Saud bin Ahmad Khalid al-Barwani said that his country’s state and private sectors are keen on investing in Iran’s Southeastern port of Chabahar.Chabahar is the best center for telecommunications, economic and trade…

DCP Sells Terminals to NGL

Feb 04, 2019

Delaware-based NGL Energy Partners and Colorado's DCP Midstream have executed a purchase and sale agreement under which DCP will convey to NGL its wholesale propane business, generally consisting of seven natural gas liquids terminals in the Eastern United States…

US' Largest Mobile Harbour Crane at Port Canaveral

Feb 04, 2019

Port Canaveral has taken the delivery of mobile harbor crane - 270-foot-tall Liebherr LHM 600 - the largest of its kind in the US.The huge LHM 600 crane arrived at the port on January 18, 2018 aboard the “Happy Dover”, a heavy load carrier and  will be operational in the second quarter of 2019…

Record Year for Indiana Ports

Feb 04, 2019

Indiana's three major shipping ports handled a record amount of cargo last year as a big jump in coal shipments helped them see 25 percent growth in 2018.'The Ports of Indiana, which includes the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor, the Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville and the Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon…

Global Travel Retail Leader Selects GAC Dubai

Feb 04, 2019

Lagardère Travel Retail has appointed GAC Dubai’s Contract Logistics team to handle a range of goods sold at Duty Free retail stores at airports in Saudi Arabia and the future Abu Dhabi Midfield Terminal Complex (MTC).Under the multi-year agreement signed by the two companies commencing March 1st…

Chabahar Port Volumes Up

Feb 03, 2019

Iran's Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar, which was taken over by Indian Ports Global Limited last month, registered high volumes in in container loading and unloading.“Container and petroleum products unloading and loading in the Chabahar port have increased by 61% and 81% respectively…

Huge Increase in Arctic shipping

Feb 03, 2019

Data from Russia’s ports and Northern Sea Route show that the volume of goods being shipped out into the Arctic waterway are up by 25 percent 2018.According to information from the Russian Transport Ministry, a total of 92.7 million tons was handled by regional seaports…

APM Mulls Greenfield Terminal in Bangkok

Feb 03, 2019

The Hague-headquartered international container terminal operating company APM Terminals has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sahathai Terminal PLC (PORT) and Mitr Phol Sugar to develop a 345,000 TEU capacity greenfield container terminal in Bangkok…

Port Houston Reports Record Container Volume

Feb 03, 2019

The international port of Texas, Port Houston, had a record-breaking 2018 as container volume through the port grew by double-digits.The port handled handled 2.7 million 20-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, a common industry measurement for containers…

KFTL Hits Container Moves Milestone

Feb 03, 2019

Kingston Freeport Terminal Ltd (KFTL), a Jamaican consortium formed by French global terminals operator CMA CGM and its majority-owned subsidiary Terminal Link, said it recorded the best performance ever in the history of the port of Kingston in terms of container moves…

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