All Ports/terminals articles – Page 35
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LSPs look long term at Zeebrugge
Despite a Q1 downturn in car handling activity at the Port of Zeebrugge of 46.2%, two logistics service providers have made significant investments for long-term growth at the world’s biggest automotive port.Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has opened a 7,600m² vehicle processing centre (VPC) at Belgian port, which will offer a ...
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FeatureMercedes moves to Leningradsky Terminal
In a new three-year contract, Mercedes-Benz Russia SAO, the Russia division of the Daimler-owned German carmaker, has rented 8500m2 in the logistics complex at Leningradsky Terminal from Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. The company has been based at the nearby Leningradsky prospect building since 2005 and opened a new technical ...
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FeatureFar East route into Russia for Rolf
Rolf Group’s supply chain and logistics business, Rolf SCS, has established a new logistics route into Russia from the Far East, at Nakhodka Marine Commercial Port and is supporting it with an auto facility at the Vostochny International Terminal. The port is situated in Primorsky Krai, 85km east of Vladivostok, ...
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FeatureUnions call off action at Port of Piraeus
Industrial action taken by dock workers at the Port of Pireaus, which has hampered throughput at the port since the beginning of 2008, including automotive shipments, has finally been called off and normal service is now expected to resume. In opposition to the port authority’s move to find a private ...
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FeaturePort of Maputo prepares for increase in vehicle volumes
South African shipping and freight logistics company Grindrod has just completed phase one development on a 52,000 capacity car terminal at the Port of Maputo in Mozambique. The company, which holds a 24.8% stake in the port, is looking to make the port an alternative to the busy Port of ...
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FeatureRussian taxes devastate imports through Vladivostok
Finished vehicle imports through the Commercial Port of Vladivostok have dropped 85% since the introduction of the new tariffs, mainly affecting second-hand vehicles brought in from Japan. The new charges, which came in to effect on January 12 this year, have brought unprecedented disruption in Vladivostok and have sparked protests ...
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FeatureFirst shipment to Hawaii from Port of Gray's Harbor
Following the recent contract between The Pasha Group and the Port of Grays Harbor in Washington, US (as reported in our newsletter dated 21 January), the ro-ro vessel M/V Jean Anne is taking 1,100 vehicles to Hawaii from there as part of its 100th voyage this week. The ship left ...
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FeatureUK ports bill could force CAT out
The UK’s controversial backdated ports rates proposal may force logistics provider CAT (UK) to withdraw activity from Teeside as it faces a £500,000 bill for its 50-acre storage site at the port. CAT (UK) is the only importer of Renault cars to the UK and makes final inspection and fittings ...
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FeatureUK ports left out in the cold?
BMW has denied it is threatening to withdraw distribution operations from the ports of Immingham and Southampton in the face of controversial new port rates being introduced in the UK. “We are not planning to pull out of distribution operations at the ports of Immingham and Southampton,” BMW spokesman Frank ...
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WWL launches service via Port of Gothenburg
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics is now using the Port of Gothenburg as a centre for high and heavy ro-ro transhipment from the Americas and Asia to St Petersburg, Russia. The new weekly service from Gothenburg to St Petersburg via Kotka, in Finland, will carry agricultural and construction equipment as well as ...
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FeatureWashington port turns from logs to logistics
In the face of finished vehicle congestion at the Port of Tacoma, logistics provider The Pasha Group has used the Port of Grays Harbor in Washington to unload 3,200 new Kia vehicles, marking the first ever shipment of vehicles to a port more used to exporting logs. The M/V Morning ...
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FeatureToyota takes emergency measures at Malmo
Toyota has reached maximum capacity at its Malmö vehicle logistics centre in Sweden following a regional sales slump and has been forced to charter a PCTC vessel for temporary storage from Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics. The Morning Glory will be used to store a maximum of 2,500 vehicles of various models ...
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FeatureMorocco launches Tangier-Med business park
Construction was officially launched by King Mohammed VI last week on the Tangier-Med Industrial Park in Morocco, which will feature a vehicle industrial complex to support Africa’s biggest car factory, currently being built by the Renault-Nissan Alliance. The €600m Greenfield plant, due for completion at the end of 2010/beginning 2011, ...