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The Dalian Port Group has confirmed it is to buy Jinzhou Port this year. In 2008, it was revealed that Dalian Port would acquire an 18.9% holding at the cost of $278m,…

16th April 2009

Dalian port buys Jinzhou

16th April 2009

ASIA

ASIA

PSA has failed to implement its plan to have Pakistans Gwadar port fully operational by 2008, which has prompted a port authority official to suggest that the Iranian port of Chabahar may…

5th April 2009

Gwadar to lose out to Chabahar

5th April 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Gateway Terminals India (GTI) has overtaken the DP World-owned Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal to become Indias leading container handling facility.

9th March 2009

GTI now Indias leading container terminal

9th March 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Sri Lanka Ports Authority has issued a long-awaited call for bids for a container terminal in a new deep draught port being built next to the existing Colombo harbour.

4th March 2009

Bids – again – for Columbo

4th March 2009

ASIA

ASIA

The first automated container terminal in Taiwan is hooking up with CATOS, a software solution for bringing together yard, tandem, and gate operations.

7th February 2009

Automation in Taiwan

7th February 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Xiamen International Port Company is to sell a project that it is developing in Haicang port to Haicang International Container Terminals Ltd for $59.6m. The project includes Berth 1, which will become…

21st September 2008

Haicang project sold

21st September 2008

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ASIA

Kaohsiung Harbour Bureau has revealed that APM Terminals is to abandon one of the two container terminals that it operates at the port.

1st September 2008

APM abandons Kaohsiung terminals

1st September 2008

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ASIA

The city of Zhongshan in Guangdong is to invest $47.5m in a new port equipped with eight container berths, each capable of handling 200,000 TEU/year.

30th August 2008

Guangdongs lucky eight

30th August 2008

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ASIA

Six bidders have been shortlisted by Ennore Port Ltd to develop a container terminal costed at $308m.

27th August 2008

Ennore selects six bidders

27th August 2008

ASIA

ASIA

An environmental coal yard claiming to be the only one of its kind in the Indian sub-continent has been commissioned by Port Pipavav, Gujarat.

16th August 2008

Environmental coal yard for Port Pipavav

16th August 2008

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ASIA

Hong Kong and Shanghai have barely stopped for breath over the last 50 years, as Wing Kah-goh explains

23rd July 2008

Birth of the super-port

23rd July 2008

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ASIA

Turning 80 this July, Li Ka-shing has done more to revolutionise container terminals than just about anyone else. He has also been at the forefront of the fortunes of both Hong Kong…

23rd July 2008

An eastern man of port power

23rd July 2008

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ASIA

Ennore Port Trust is to put together a shortlist of six bidders from the 22 that originally made offers for the concession to build the $305m 1.5m teu container terminal at the…

15th July 2008

Ennore compiles shortlist

15th July 2008

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ASIA

China Merchants Holdings International, the Hong Kong-listed port operator, has launched a five and 10 year dollar bond, braving some rough conditions in the international markets.

26th June 2008

HK Port operator braves cooler market

26th June 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Bids have been invited by Chennai Port Trust to build and operate Indias largest ever container terminal.

12th June 2008

Bids invited for Indian mega-terminal

12th June 2008

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ASIA

Ports are set to benefit from the recent move by Babcock & Brown to add considerable firepower to its India efforts by luring six professionals from ABN AMRO, including the new head…

14th May 2008

Babcock & Brown fire up India

14th May 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Trade within the continent will spur growth at southeast Asias terminals in the coming years, suggests Wing Kah-goh from Singapore

7th May 2008

Growing as a region

7th May 2008

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ASIA

Karimun in Riau Islands province, Indonesia, will commence construction of a container terminal this year in a bid to promote its status as a special economic zone.

7th May 2008

Another boxport slated for the Malacca Strait

7th May 2008

ASIA

ASIA

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional community of ten nations in Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) that aims to accelerate…

7th May 2008

ASEAN defined

7th May 2008

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ASIA

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…

19th March 2008

Dalian IPO mooted

19th March 2008