Author: Importer

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Freeport Container Terminal in the Bahamas is to undertake an upgrade programme costing $300m.

27th October 2008

Major investment for Freeport

27th October 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The “Funding Guide for Inland Waterway Transport in Europe” - one of the instruments of the European Commission’s NAIADES Action Programme - was officially launched on 1 October by Jonathan Scheele, Director…

27th October 2008

Funding Guide for Inland Waterway Transport

27th October 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Maersk has slashed the number of containers it handles at Kaohsiung by 20%, less than the rumoured 50% reduction. The company will no longer call at berths 118 or 119, instead transferring…

26th October 2008

Maersk downsizes at Kaohsiung

26th October 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Bypass East road in Duisburg-Rheinhausen has been officially opened enabling the heavy vehicle traffic of around 1700 trucks daily to be directed via a new roundabout and the new Osloer Strasse…

26th October 2008

Roundabout steers trucks to log port

26th October 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Colombias attorney general has asked the Constitutional Court to make changes to the law granting port terminal concessions.

25th October 2008

Attorney general challenges Colombias concessions law

25th October 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

US rail operator Norfolk Southern Corporation has issued its first sustainability report, describing the company’s commitment to responsible economic, environmental, and social performance. The report, which the company plans to issue annually,…

25th October 2008

Norfolk Southern issues first Sustainability Report

25th October 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

While the north of the UK will see the opening of the Northern Gateway Container Terminal at Teesport in 2011 with a container capacity of 1.5m teu, the capability of the surrounding…

24th October 2008

Challenge for UK rail?

24th October 2008

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Striking Israeli port unions are the subject of legal action being taken by the Manufacturers Association and the Chambers of Commerce, who claim that strike action is in contempt of court.

24th October 2008

Israeli courts order strikers back to work

24th October 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Plummeting volumes at US West Coast ports couldbe the precursor to long term erosion of the US Pacific coast shipping dominance,according to Drewry Shipping Consultants.

24th October 2008

No end in sight for US West Coast ports malaise

24th October 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Port equipment, premises and liability insurer, TT Club has urged port and terminal operators to re-visit their crane tie-down procedures and emergency braking operations to mitigate structural damage and accidents in high…

24th October 2008

Terminals operators urged to review crane lockdown procedures

24th October 2008