TCB moving into Vietnam
NewsBarcelona-based terminal group TCB has signed an agreement with the Vietnamese Tan Thuan Industrial Promotion Company (IPC) to build a conta...
Iberia Link launched
NewsSpanish National Railways (Renfe) and Portuguese Railways (CP) have launched a new landbridge service connecting the Portuguese Atlantic por...
TCB garners local Colombian support
NewsBarcelona-based TCB group, which, as previously reported, was awarded a US$210M, 30-year concession to build a new container terminal in the...
Mexican go ahead
NewsThe Mexican Port of Topolobampo intends to go ahead with the construction of a container terminal later this year. The proposed facility wil...
Ports add capacity to cater for continuing growth
NewsGrowth rates have slackened but given the high traffic base they remain significant....
New TCB rail service
NewsTCB Railway Transport (TCBRT), the affiliate of Barcelona container terminal operator Grup TCB set up last September to offer block train se...
TCB/CPIBSA team up
NewsCPIBSA (Complejo Portuario Industrial de Buenaventura SA), which last year won a 30 year concession to build a new US$115M industrial port i...
Port investments gathering pace
NewsMuelle Fangos, Prat Dock and other major schemes follow hard on the heels of the recently announced expansion programmes at Algeciras....
Seattle shifts more cranes
NewsThe Port of Seattle has finished clearing its inventory of excess container cranes by exporting three Panamax Starporter cranes (Nos. 33, 35...
Low profiles for Barca
NewsThe tender covering the concession for the new container terminal at the Port of Barcelona is being handled very quickly. The award for the ...
Auto RTGs
NewsMitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for 12 remote-controlled, automated RTGs and three quayside cranes from Tobishima Co...
TCB in Gijon row
NewsGrup TCB has asked the Asturias provincial government in Spain to explain officially why shortsea operator Contenemar has been allowed to ab...
Grup TCB gears up
NewsTecon Paranaguá in Brazil is due to start working this month with two Konecranes' Panamax cranes built locally by Bardella. Tecon handled 2...
North versus South divide
NewsMarconsult, the Genoabased consultancy, has come up with a new study, Performances of Container Terminals - Report 2000, the main aim of whi...