Xiamen terminal "to be completely automated"
NewsWhat is termed a "fully automated container terminal" is to be built in the Chinese port...
VeriRAD from VeriTainer
NewsUS-based VeriTainer Corporation is adding VeriRAD to its VeriSpreader crane-based container scanning platform....
New Xiamen box terminal
NewsThe Chinese authorities have approved the construction of a two-berth container terminal at Xiamen in which French carrier CMA CGM has a 30 ...
Big trucks braced for downturn
NewsDemand for heavy lift trucks looks set to fall next year. However, some industry spokesmen are still upbeat about the ports sector and the w...
Dry freight box demand hits the rocks
NewsDry freight container manufacturers are facing a lean time. Demand has collapsed in the final quarter of 2008 and most plants have been put ...
New port for Xiamen
NewsChina’s Xiamen port has started developing a new port area at South Liuwudian, the closest point to Taiwan, for direct cross-strait contai...
Kaohsiung losing out to Xiamen
NewsMaersk Line plans to surrender two of the four berths it operates at Kaohsiung when their leases expire at the end of October and move the b...
Slower growth at China’s container ports
NewsAlthough growth rates at China’s two largest container ports - Shanghai and Shenzhen - slowed significantly in the first half of this year...
Taiwan to end ban on direct links with China
NewsIn a move that would end a five-decade ban on direct shipping links with China, Taiwan’s President-elect Ma Ying-Jeou has nominated seven ...
SPMP in second place, twice
NewsChinese crane manufacturer Shanghai Port Machinery Plant (SPMP) is currently the second largest container quay crane manufacturer in the wor...
China to top 100M TEU
NewsChina’s ports are expected to handle a record 108M TEU this year, making it the first country to pass the 100M TEU mark....
Songyu Phase 1 comes on stream
NewsAP Moller-Maersk Group and Xiamen Port (Group) held a grand opening ceremony this month for the Xiamen Songyu Phase I Container Terminal at ...
China ports up 25%
NewsChina’s major sea and river ports handled 24.5M TEU in the first three months of this year, up 25.4% year-on-year, according to figures re...
New ports planned for Fujian
NewsChina’s south eastern Fujian province is to invest US$3.7B over the next five years to build a string of ports along its 3,324 km coastlin...
Maersk mulls Xiamen hub
NewsSpeculation is growing that Maersk Line, the world’s largest container carrier, will move its transhipment business from Kaohsiung in Taiw...