Tuticorin expansion plan

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Tuticorin port in south India has unveiled a major expansion plan which involves an investment of R40B over the next few years, the port’s...

Running in order to stand still

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Container traffic has been growing strongly in the eastern Baltic, mainly on the strength of rising consumer demand in northwest Russia, the...

Policy void at the top hurts

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Capacity constraints at the main container ports need to be addressed not in a piecemeal manner but in the light of a national ports and tra...

…just a touch for HIT cranes

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Hutchison's Hongkong International Terminals (HIT) arm in Hong Kong is now working with Siemens' Hipac Touchmatic semiautomation system, wit...

Maersk big push

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As part of the deal to increase its stake in ECT to 79 percent, the EU required Hutchison to sell its 33 percent stake in the Maersk Delta t...

ECT slice for ABX?…

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Through its daughter company ABX Logistics, Belgian Rail Freight (SNCB Fret) is understood to be negotiating to buy a 19 per cent share in E...

North versus South divide

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Marconsult, the Genoabased consultancy, has come up with a new study, Performances of Container Terminals - Report 2000, the main aim of whi...

Hutchison takes a Bath

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Hutchison's announcement that it had acquired the Bathside Bay area from Sea Containers (for around �10 million) to develop a new containe...

Harwich terminal to be automated?

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No details of the terminal operating systems at either Shell Haven or Bathside Bay are known but, clearly, as its own drawing suggests, Hutc...

…new ECT structure?

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There are rumours that a new shareholding structure is being sought for ECT, following a warning from EU competition commissioner Mario Mont...

BACTSSA terminal up for sale?…

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The Buenos Aires rumour mill is hot with reports that Terminal 5 (BACTSSA) is up for sale, with Maersk Sealand, (which has just bought a maj...

Felixstowe adds Online service

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An on-line information system for road hauliers - Felixstowe Online - has been introduced by Portsnportals.com, the new e-commerce vehicle t...