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Saturday, November 26, 2016
Hong Kong Port
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China Seizes Troop Cargo In Hong Kong

By Greg Torode (Reuters) Beijing on Friday warned countries against maintaining military ties with Taiwan, after Singaporean armored troop carriers were seized

November 26, 2016
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Long Beach and Los Angeles Ports Team Up With Maersk to Track Emissions and Energy Efficiency of Ships
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Long Beach and Los Angeles Ports Team Up With Maersk to Track Emissions and Energy Efficiency of Ships

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has teamed up with container shipping giant Maersk on a new project that aims to track vessel emissions and energy

November 9, 2016
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
port of Manzanillo, Colima Mexico
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China To Pump $770 Million Into Another African Port

by Saliou Samb (Reuters) China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) signed a $770 million contract with Guinea’s government on Monday to upgrade the

October 29, 2016
Total Views: 200

Tuesday, October 25, 2016
DP World Sees Slight Growth in Container Volumes
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DP World Sees Slight Growth in Container Volumes

Dubai-based DP World handled 47.5 million TEU across its global portfolio of container terminals during the first nine months of 2016, with gross container

October 25, 2016
Total Views: 25

Wednesday, October 12, 2016
msc ship at long beach port
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Port of Long Beach Container Volumes Weighed Down by Hanjin Bankruptcy

Container volumes at the Port of Long declined 16.6 percent year-over-year in September as the effects of the Hanjin bankruptcy reached West Coast ports, the

October 12, 2016
Total Views: 89

Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Hanjin Shipping's container terminal is seen at the Busan New Port in Busan
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Shippers Demand Terminals Free Hanjin Boxes

By Gavin van Marle (TheLoadstar) Shipper organizations have called for terminals to begin releasing Hanjin containers detained by terminal

September 6, 2016
Total Views: 93

Monday, September 5, 2016
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Hanjin Steers Stranded Ships to Singapore, Hamburg

by Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) South Korea said Hanjin Shipping will try to steer vessels to ports to unload cargo as the government tries to contain global

September 5, 2016
Total Views: 99

Sunday, September 4, 2016
Kenya Container Terminal Mombasa
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Kenya Commissions New Mombasa Container Terminal

By Joseph Akwiri (Reuters) Kenya on Saturday inaugurated the first part of a new container terminal at Mombasa which is expected to boost by 50 percent the

September 4, 2016
Total Views: 143

Tuesday, August 23, 2016
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Billionaire’s Pakistan Terminal to Start After 5-Year Delay

by Faseeh Mangi (Reuters) Billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Port Holdings Ltd. is set to start its second Pakistan terminal after a five-year delay,

August 23, 2016
Total Views: 63

Sunday, August 21, 2016
Port Of Vancouver, Canada
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Vancouver Port Traffic Falls as Canadian Economy Struggles

by Natalie Obiko Pearson (Bloomberg) Traffic through Canada’s biggest port fell during the first half of the year, hit by weak industrial activity

August 21, 2016
Total Views: 130

Friday, August 19, 2016
Profits Soar For Port Operator
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Profits Soar For Port Operator

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) DP World has reported robust first-half results from its global portfolio of container terminals, saying despite the challenging

August 19, 2016
Total Views: 162

Libyan NOC Tanker Loads Oil From Threatened Port
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Libyan NOC Tanker Loads Oil From Threatened Port

By Ayman al-Warfalli (Reuters) A tanker sent by Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) began to load oil on Thursday at the

August 19, 2016
Total Views: 22

Wednesday, August 17, 2016
apl-ship-port-or-long-beach
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Long Beach Cargo Volume Sinks 7 Percent

Container volume at the Port of Long Beach was down 7.7 percent in July compared to the same month in 2015, when harbor terminals handled a record amount of

August 17, 2016
Total Views: 64

Shanghai Express port of hamburg hapag lloyd
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Will ULCV Spike Prompt Hamburg To Dredge The Elbe? Probably Not

  By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) The number of ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) of 14,000-19,000 teu calling at the port of

August 17, 2016
Total Views: 67

Sunday, July 31, 2016
File photo of smoke rising from burning oil storage tanks in the port of Ras Lanuf, Libya
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Libya Government To Reopen Ports

(Reuters) Libya’s U.N.-backed government has signed a deal with an armed brigade controlling the major Ras Lanuf and Es Sider oil ports to end a blockade

July 31, 2016
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Friday, July 29, 2016
port of Enayam India Container Hub
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Watching China, India Doubles Down On Container Ports

(Reuters) An Indian conglomerate has started building the country’s first transshipment port, conceived 25 years ago, and the government will construct

July 29, 2016
Total Views: 111

Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Piraeus port
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COSCO Says Piraeus Port Sale Terms Inconsistent With Deal

ATHENS, June 29 (Reuters) – COSCO Greece objected on Wednesday to terms submitted to parliament for the sale of Piraeus Port to China COSCO Shipping,

June 29, 2016
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Ship Photos of the Day – Port of Long Beach’s Powerful New Fireboat ‘Protector’
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Ship Photos of the Day – Port of Long Beach’s Powerful New Fireboat ‘Protector’

The Port of Long Beach has welcomed into service the first of two new state-of-the-art fireboats that will the port help become more ‘big ship’

June 8, 2016
Total Views: 429

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Port of Long Beach Chief Sees More Pain for Shipping Lines
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Port of Long Beach Chief Sees More Pain for Shipping Lines

By Andy Hoffman (Bloomberg) — Global container shipping lines face one or two more years of pain as the industry consolidates amid overcapacity and

May 24, 2016
Total Views: 46

Thursday, April 14, 2016
Containers and ships sit idle at the Port of Long Beach in this file photo
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Port of Long Beach Off to Strong Start in 2016

Cargo shipments at the Port of Long Beach were up 6.1 percent for the first three months of 2016 compared to the same period last year, starting the year

April 14, 2016
Total Views: 28