MSC-PSA Asia Terminal open

News

MSC-PSA Asia Terminal, a joint venture between PSA International and Switzerland’s Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), started operations in ...

APMT bags Algeciras deal

News
APM Terminals (APMT) has been awarded a 4-year contract to manage and operate Terminal de Contenedores de Algeciras (TCA), the common user c...

South of the border for decongestant?

News
Last year’s NAWC range port congestion has largely not been repeated this year, but all the same there is still substantial interest in fi...

Reefer machinery builders scroll ahead

News
With close to 50 per cent of reefer container units now equipped with scroll compressors, and the recent scaling up of production, machinery...

PTP scotches Evergreen rumours

News
Malaysia’s Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) has dismissed rumours that Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine Corp, its second largest customer, may mov...

Boost for PTP…

News
The Port of Singapore will be one of the biggest losers if Maersk Sealand is merged with P&O Nedlloyd (P&ONL), the world’s third largest c...

Four eye Dunkirk

News
In response to a tender, APM Terminals (APMT), Dubai Ports International (DPI), CMA-CGM, and Australia’s International Infrastructure Mana...

New boxes stacking up in China

News
As this issue was going to press, it was estimated that upwards of 800,000 TEU of new container equipment was stacked up in Chinese containe...

Maersk moves in on P&O Nedlloyd

News
One of the best known names in the container shipping industry is set to disappear if, as seems likely, a proposed all-cash offer for P&O Ne...

Ceres finally under way

News
As forecast in the last issue of WorldCargo News (p34), Amsterdam’s Ceres Paragon terminal, owned 50 per cent by NYK and 50 per cent by Ch...

APMT takes stake in Brazil box terminal

News
APM Terminals (APMT) has taken a 50 per cent stake in the Teconvi (Terminal de Conteineres do Vale do Itajai) container terminal at the Braz...

Not everything in the garden is rosy

News
Puertos del Estado, Spain’s national ports aency, has reported that the public ports of the mainland and islands handled a total of 410.45...