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Clipper bags Lasco

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Consolidating the bulk shipping sector in the Handysize, Handymax and Panamax sectors, the Clipper Group of the Bahamas has acquired Lasco S...

When boxes block bulk

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The Port of San Diego has learned that “haste makes waste” when enthusiasm is allowed to overshadow proper planning techniques....

No grain, yet low pain

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Australia’s Port Kembla Port Corporation (PKPC) has delivered a strong trade result for 2002/03 despite the impact of the drought on grain...

CVRD to expand activities

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Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) has signed contracts worth R$2 bill to ship iron ore to three Chinese steel manufacturers from ...

Bobcat bonanza

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A new Bobcat S175 skid-steer loader supplied by Germanybased Bobcat dealer Bax, has joined other Bobcat loaders working 760m underground in ...

Cargill crystalises Brazil plans

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Global commodity trader Cargill, and one of Brazil’s largest sugar companies, Crystalsev, have opened a new sugar export terminal in Santo...

Unloaders for King’s Lynn

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Associated British Ports (ABP)’s Port of King’s Lynn has recently taken delivery of new handling equipment - a Fuchs MHL 380 loader and ...

Oakajee reviving?

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The highly controversial Kingstream Steel project at Oakajee, north of Geraldton in Western Australia, is set to be reborn as a more modest ...

Nowesco/LSR write in sand

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Major Russian inland shipping company North Western Shipping Co (Nowesco) has sold its three subsidiaries engaged in sand extraction - St Pe...

First buyer

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Leading UK passenger bus and rail operator First Group has acquired GB Railways and GB Railfreight (GBRf) from Anglia Railways. First and An...

Catella buys BMH

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As Bulk Materials International was going to press, engineering systems group Babcock International announced it is to sell its Sweden-based...

Norilsk bags Archangel

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Moscow-based Business Management Ltd has acquired 20 per cent of the stock of Arkhangelsk Seaport from the Russian Federal Property Fund....

Iron ore stacking up

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India’s Visakhapatnam and Paradip ports, which handle large quantities of iron ore, are considering ways of creating extra land for stacki...

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