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BCT handles first vessel

News24 May 2022

The first automated and remote controlled STS cranes in Korea have handled their first call....

News1 Mar 2018

Korea’s Total Soft Bank (TSB) has won a contract to install its CATOS TOS at the American President Lines (APL) terminal in Kaohsiung, Tai...

News5 Aug 2017

Reliable reports emanating from South Korea suggest that the country’s container shipping companies are planning to create a national alli...

News6 Jul 2017

The Korea Export Import Bank has set up a fund to invest in Hanjin’s terminal in Busan to prevent the facility being sold to a foreign ope...

News17 May 2017

A scrubber system for a newbuild Korean ferry is the first case for Wärtsilä where the shipyard, the owners, and the vessel's operational ...

News29 Dec 2016

DP World has increased its stake in Pusan Newport Company Ltd from 42.09% to 66.03%...

News24 Aug 2016

Combi Lift has loaded a 73.5m long vacuum column in India, the longest cargo loaded by Lo- Lo in the company’s history...

News4 May 2016

Less than five years after opening in 2012, BNCT has handled 5m TEU....

News12 Apr 2016

BNCT at Busan has welcomed the maiden call of the MV Bermuda on CMA-CGM’s WAX service connecting Korea to West and South Africa...

News20 Jan 2016

Busan Port Authority is "confident of reaching 20M TEU throughput in 2016" and has announced an international business development initiativ...

News24 Dec 2015

China Shipping Terminal Development has acquired a 20% equity share in the KEC Busan Container Terminal...

News27 Jul 2015

Busan is consolidating container handling in its New Port area in a bid to become a “global transhipment hub port”....

News22 Jul 2015

Busan’s BNCT continues to grow rapidly, welcoming seven new services in the last six months....

News26 Feb 2015

On the back of an all-time record in 2014, the port is forecasting another milestone for 2015...

News5 Nov 2014

Lim Ki-tack, president of Busan Port Authority, has confirmed that all cargo-handling activity will be centred on the New Port complex, with...