Ports and Logistics
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Skou sets 2021 target to raise landside business to 50% of revenues
Soren Skou, the head of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has outlined how he intends to get half his group’s revenues coming from…
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Africa and the Mediterranean’s largest boxport set to open today
Tangier will today celebrate the opening of the largest container port in capacity terms in the whole of the Mediterranean,…
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Rizhao Port Group wins Boffa Port project
China’s Rizhao Port Group has been selected by Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) as the operator of the Boffa Port…
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Landbridge eyes listing of Rizhao terminal
Rizhao-based Landbridge Group, a diversified multinational group specialising in port infrastructure, logistics, oil and gas, shipping and petrochemical industries, is…
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Tanzania scraps massive Chinese port project
In one of the biggest pushbacks against Chinese president Xi Jinping’s Belt Road Initiative Tanzania has suspended the construction of…
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Hutchison Port Holdings appoints new CEO
Hong Kong-based container terminal operator Hutchison Port Holdings Trust has announced that its chief executive officer Gerry Yim Lui Fai…
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APM Terminals’ controversial plans to automate LA facility move a step ahead
APM Terminals’ bitter fight with unions in California to try and automate some of its operations at the Port of…
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Pilot suspended in Vietnam as another boxship skittles a gantry crane
The dire string of gantry crane collisions witnessed over the past two years continues with news from Vietnam where a…
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Global port corruption in the spotlight
A new index is set to shine a light on port corruption around the world. The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)—a…
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SIPG appoints new president
Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) has appointed Gu Jinshan as the new president of the group. Gu will take over…
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Canada shakes up global propane trades with new terminal
Canada’s first propane export terminal – Altagas’s Ridley Island Export Terminal (RIPET)– has become operational, upping global LPG supplies. “The…
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Croatia set to welcome 20,000 teu ships
Croatia is set to offer liners the first opportunity to berth their 20,000 teu ships in the northern Adriatic as…
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DFDS and Volvo trial autonomous trucking solution to Gothenburg port
Ferry operator DFDS is taking autonomous transport shoreside. The Danish company has entered into a collaboration with Volvo Trucks concerning…
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Tallinna Sadam to develop new bulk terminal
Estonian port operator Tallinna Sadam has signed agreements with PK Terminal for the development of a dry bulk and general…
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Contship Italia quits Cagliari
Less than two months after selling its 50% share in the Medcenter Container Terminal of Gioia Tauro to MSC, Contship…
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SIPG to issue bonds worth $700m
Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) has announced a plan to issue overseas bonds worth $700m on the Hong Kong Stock…
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China Merchants officially takes control of Liaoning Port Group
China Merchants Group and State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) Liaoning have entered into an agreement under which SASAC…
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F2i makes ports move with acquisition of three terminals from Enrico Bogazzi
F2i, the biggest Italian infrastructure fund with around €5bn in assets under management, announced its entry into the port business…
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Environmentalists slam port authority over size of fine handed to KMTC
Local environmentalists in Thailand have slammed the paltry fine handed to South Korean owner KMTC, the operator of feeder containership…
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Rizhao Port Jurong eyes $66m Hong Kong IPO
Rizhao Port Jurong, a joint venture between China’s Rizhao Port and Singapore’s Jurong Port, is expected to start its initial…
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