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The administration of the port of Dar es Salaam announced a 30-day amnesty for the over-due payments for stored cargo for importer companies.
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FESCO Lines Vladivostok, the commercial operator of FESCO Magadan Line, is improving its service on the Magadan direction.
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COSCO Container Lines (COSCON) introduces a sea express service between Vietnam and the US. According to the company’s official announcement, the new service is being introduced because of the fast-growing Vietnamese domestic market.
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In 2006 the Global Institute of Logistics together with the German classification agency Germanischer Lloyd began developing a container terminal standards system which lead to the creation of the Hamburg Committee.
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The total cost of the contract was 490 billion won ($387 million).
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During the presentation Rene Gisberg said that Cargoshell was a new type of container that could be integrated into the existing standard transport networks without any major additional costs.
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The British multibillion container operator Wincanton has signed a three year contract with one of Europe’s largest retailers Agros to ship containers with the products intended to be sold in the company’s outlets situated in Britain. Both companies have been cooperating for the last 13 years.
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The transport and logistics division of SNCF has increased its share in the railway container business of ERMEWA operating company to 100%.
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The Ministry of Transport of the Netherlands together with the port administration of the Port of Rotterdam have signed an agreement for transferring the Container Transferium terminal from Alblasserdam to a new location to the East of Rotterdam.
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OOCL has won the award for being the best owner and operator of ocean lines at the Seatrade Asia Award Ceremony which took place in Shanghai.
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One of the world’s largest container terminal operators DP World announced it would postpone the implementation of the project for constructing the third container terminal in the port of Jebel Ali (Dubai, UAE) with a total cost of $1.5 billion due to the global economic crisis.
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Greece’s largest sea container operator Aries Maritime Transport Limited announced it had completed the deal for selling its oldest panamax container vessel Ocean Hope with a capacity of approximately 2,000 TEU.
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The container transshipment volumes in the port of Shanghai have fallen for the first time in 20 years.
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Middle East Container Repair Company (MECRC, United Arab Emirates) which specializes in container repair services, has introduced a new service that will help line operators to save their costs.
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Maersk Line forecasts the world container market to contract this year by more than 10% and no growth for 2010 due to the “unprecedented slump” for the whole of industrial production.
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The central government of the People’s Republic of China plans to invest some $200 million in the development and construction of new river container vessels which will be able to reach the deep-water sea port of Yangshan (Shanghai district) by using the inland river waterways of Yantzi river.
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The French container operator CMA CGM announced the company plans to modernize its container services on the Asia-Europe routes.
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The shareholders of FESCO Transport Group have decided not to pay out any dividends for 2008.
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The French container operator CMA CGM has expanded its CAGEMA service which connects the Eastern coast of US with the ports in the Caribbean sea.
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The Finnish container line Containerships which operates on the feeder routes in Northern Europe has increased the bunker fuel surcharge on its services in the Baltic and the North Sea.
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