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News Asia

  • PSA box traffic system first

    PSA International has introduced the first Containerised Traffic System (CTS) in Asia at its facility at Pasir Panjang terminal in the Port of Singapore.   

  • Five bid for Vizinjam

    Five consortia have submitted bids for the 30-year concession to build and manage a container terminal at the Indian port of Vizinjam, situated on the country's east coast.   

  • PSA Calcutta stake

    PSA India has signed an agreement with ABG Infralogistics and its subsidiary ABG Kolkata Container Terminal to take a 49% stake in ABG Kolkata Container Terminal.   

  • Little progress on Bengal deep-sea port

    India's Union Shipping Ministry is reported to be struggling to find a consultant to prepare a detailed project report for the construction of a deep seaport on the coast of Bengal.  

  • Rotterdam delivers Indian view

    India should develop large-scale industrial and logistic clusters and encourage more private investment, a recent report on Indian ports prepared by the port of Rotterdam has found.  

  • Deepening the Yangtze

    A 32-kilometre section on the upper Yangtze River close to the Three Gorges reservoir is to be cleared of rock reefs to enable deep draught vessels to access the port of Chongqing. Work, which is expected to be completed before August, will enable 10,000 dwt vessels to access the port.  

  • Coal cluster at Hebei

    The northern Chinese province of Hebei is to develop a cluster of three ports - Qinhuangdao, Tangshan and Huangyi - over the next three years, which will become the world's largest combined coal export facility. Qinhuangdao exported more than 200m tonnes of coal last year.  

  • Dalian IPO mooted

    Dalian Port Company Ltd is considering the possibility of an initial public offering in 2009 to finance capacity expansion involving the construction of 12 additional oil storage tanks with a combined capacity of up to 1.2m tonnes. 
     

  • MISC dedicated to PTP

    MISC has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Port of Tanjung Pelepas to create a joint-venture to manage a dedicated container terminal at the port.  

  • Korean and Chinese ports to cooperate

    Busan Port Authority (BPA) in Korea has established cooperative ties through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dafeng Port, located in China’s Jiangsu Province. 

  • Taiwan Power orders coal unloaders

    Two Siwertell screw unloaders, each designed to discharge coal at 2,200t/h, have been ordered from the MacGregor Group for the Ta-Lin Power Station in Taiwan. Favoured over traditional bucket chain and wheel constructions, the ships that they will unload will be in the range of 80,000 dwt to 150,000 dwt. 

  • Tideworks Asian debut

    Software developer Tideworks has opened a regional office in Singapore to better serve its growing Asian clientele.

     

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