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Kazakhstan in port dilemma

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Kazakhstan’s government is in a dilemma as to which direction, northward or southward, to develop its Caspian port of Aktau (AMTP)....

More freight off the roads

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The vessel RADESFORDE recently discharged 3400t of soda ash at Associated British Ports (ABP)’s Port of Ipswich, marking the start of a ne...

Weser for TAIM TFG

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Spain-based materials handling engineering and technology group TAIM-TFG recently completed the takeover of Weser Engineering GmbH, the Germ...

Canadian grain merger

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Canada’s Competition Bureau has said it will study a proposed merger between the country’s two largest grain handlers after Saskatchewan...

Dhamankul Bay port project

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The OP Jindal group, which is setting up a 1,200MW power plant at Jaigad in western Maharashtra state, is to build its own bulk port in Dham...

Sand terminal opens

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The port of Portland in south-western Victoria, Australia, has started handling mineral sands exports, following the official opening of Ilu...

Compact is “cutting it”

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Mastenbroek, the UK-based trencher specialist, recently launched a new concept in trenching machines designated the HRT (Hard-Rock Trencher)...

Bedeschi cement action

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Italy-based Bedeschi has reported a number of recent contract awards. In the first place, it has won its fourth contract from Arabian Cement...

Lambert expansion

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Rio Tinto is on the verge of giving the green light to a A$690M expansion of its port facilities at Cape Lambert, Western Australia. The ini...

Major upgrade for Westshore

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A C$45M equipment upgrade for Westshore Terminals, Canada’s leading coal export facility, is underway to boost annual throuthput capacity ...

TDP builds own grain terminal

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Dnipropetrovsk-based TD Privat (TDP), one of Ukraine’s largest grain traders, has started construction of its own grain terminal which wil...

K-Line wins EDF deal

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EDF Trading, the subsidiary of Europe’s largest power utility, Electricité de France (EDF), responsible for wholesale energy market activ...

New Edmonton grain terminal

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Canadian National Railway (CNR) has opened a container loading facility for high value grains and grain products, pulse crops and oilseeds i...

Wisbech into scrap

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The first vessel for over a decade recently docked at the UK Port of Wisbech to collect the first of a regular cargo of scrap metal bound fo...

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