AV Technology (AVT) reports that its Silo-Weigh system has successfully completed a six month trial on a 30m tall, 500 tonne capacity soda a...

“European Bulls,” an alliance of private European rail freight companies, has been set up in Rotterdam....

Grindrod has acquired control of the Namibian listed African Portland Industrial Holdings Ltd (API), the owner of Matola Coal Terminal in Ma...

Melbourne-based Rio Tinto Shipping (RTS) has placed its first-ever orders for owned tonnage, comprising three shallow-draught 90,000 dwt bul...

Dragados-SPL is investing €48.2 mill in building a new dry bulk terminal at the northern Spanish port of Santander. The facility on Quay 1...

EWS, Britain's largest rail freight operator, has won a contract from Alcan to haul 40,000 tonnes of aluminium ingot per annum by rail in Sc...

Odessa-based research and design institute Cherno-MorniiProekt has designed a new grain terminal for Georgia’s Black Sea Port of Poti....

NEMI Northern Energy & Mining Inc and Western Canadian Coal Corp have announced the successful completion of the formal documentation for th...

As part of its major programme of reforms to reduce losses, SNCF Fret is introducing longer and heavier freight trains for major bulk shippe...

Grab manufacturers can perhaps take encouragement that rising coal and iron ore prices will “trickle down” as far as the stevedore....

The key requirements for conveyor drive installations are similar worldwide - variable adjustment to the load, soft ramp up and ramp down, l...

Metso Minerals, now the major supplier of rail car tipplers due to a consolidation process over the years, which has seen the US specialist ...

Australia’s iron ore miners have secured an unprecedented 71.5 per cent increase in iron ore contract prices, which, coupled with a 120 pe...

In just 12 months following the placing of an order in December 2003, ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik GmbH’s Materials Handling division in Ge...

Following a pledge by Queensland premier Peter Beattie to invest A$570 mill to upgrade port, rail and marine infrastructure in the state, fo...