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PSA Muara Container Terminal Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of PSA International, has decided to hand back operations at the Muara Container Terminal (MCT) to the Government of Brunei, with effect from April 1, 2007. The company has operated the terminal for the past six years, and the handover comes earlier than originally planned. Read More »

Mr Mohammad (Behzad) Seifollahi has been appointed managing director of Tidewater Middle East Marine Services, effective from January 27, 2007. He succeeds Mr Javad Asghary as MD of the Tehran-based company. Read More »

Gulftainer’s Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) in Sharjah handled nearly 10% more containers in January 2007 than in the same month in 2006. Volumes grew thanks to increased demand for access to the UAE’s main centres together with a greater number of ships calling at the terminal, which is linked by a customs-bonded mini-bridge to Sharjah Inland Container Depot. Read More »

SP-PSA International Port Co Ltd (SP-PSA) – a joint venture between Saigon Port and PSA Vietnam Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PSA International Pte Ltd (PSAI) – has been granted an investment license to develop a new container port in Vung Tau province in Vietnam. The port is intended to serve Vietnam’s fast-growing container traffic and to become a major hub for the Indochina region. Read More »

DCT Gdansk, the new deepwater terminal for the Baltic under construction in Poland, has taken delivery of the first of three post-Panamax ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and two of five rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes ordered from Liebherr Cranes of Killarney in the Irish Republic. Read More »

Oman International Container Terminal (OICT) at the Port of Sohar celebrated the grand opening of its Terminal B, Phase I on January 28, 2007. At a quayside ceremony, HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Harthy, Oman’s Minister of Transport and Communications, and John Meredith, group managing director of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), jointly unveiled a plaque to mark the event. Read More »

Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Corporation Limited (PLIPDECO) – a large industrial complex 20 miles south of Port of Spain on the west coast of Trinidad – has contracted international port owner and operator SSA Marine to provide consultancy services for its port operations at Point Lisas. Read More »

Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) officially handed over the Port of Manta to Terminales Internacionales de Ecuador (TIDE) on January 31, 2007, marking the start of a 30-year concession agreement signed in November 2006. Manta is a natural deepwater port located in Ecuador on the Pacific Coast of South America. Read More »

Konecranes has received three significant orders for reachstackers from repeat customers in Africa. It will supply six new units to the Namibian Port Authorities (NPA), three to the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) and four to Meridian Ports Services Ltd (MPS) in Ghana. The total value of the orders amounts to €5.5m, and the equipment is due for delivery in spring 2007. Read More »