One dead in depot accident

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Incorrect tank cleaning operations at a container depot in Berisso near La Plata to the south of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires cause...

New plan for Botany

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An alternative plan by P&O Ports (P&OP) for the expansion of Port Botany container terminals has thrown the current review process into turm...

Mindanao setback

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The Japanese-funded Mindanao container terminal project in the southern Philippines has suffered another major setback with the issuance of ...

Comsa to operate Renfe terminals

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Comsa Rail Transport has been awarded two 3-year (plus 2 more optionally) concessions to manage intermodal freight yards up to now operated ...

FA takeover plan stalled

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Negotiations over the planned takeover of the RailAmerica-owned Freight Australia by Toll/ Patrick joint venture Pacific National (see World...

Night work for LA/LB?

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Nighttime and weekend operating hours may be coming to North America’s two largest ports by the year end. The ports of Long Beach and Los ...

Barcelona plans big

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The Port of Barcelona is hoping to select one or more terminal operators by mid-2005 for the new container terminal complex to be built in t...

Guayaquil bananas

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The Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil is planning to introduce a new area totally dedicated to handling and storing palletised banana exports....

Eurotunnel freight plan

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An update on Eurotunnel’s plan to develop through rail freight services, using its own new rail operating licence and a new intermodal ter...

New working rules for Le Havre

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After almost a year of negotiations, the Port Authority of Le Havre (PAH), the dock unions and container terminal operating companies have a...

Dunkirk bags Maersk

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Dunkirk is to be included in Maersk Sealand’s new AE7 Asia-Europe-Asia service, in which eight ³6000 TEU vessels are deloyed, with a week...

P&OP’s Melbourne blend

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Consolidation of Melbourne’s container and rail facilities has taken a further step with approval by the Victorian Government for the inte...

Kocks for HHLA

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Kocks Krane International GmbH has contracted four superpost-Panamax cranes from HHLA in Hamburg. Two double trolley cranes with an outreach...

…concerns in Kochi

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The Water Transport Workers Federation of India has asked the Shipping Minister not to privatise Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal at the port...

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