Journals By Industry - Marine Transportation Support & Infrastructure

Iron ore piled at docks in Dalian Port can be seen everywhere, most of which are shipped from Brazil and Australia. Although current capacities are approaching the alarm level, more ships are on...

A few Hong Kong-based property developers, including Hutchison Whampoa, The Wharf (Holdings), Hang Lung Properties and Kerry Properties, collectively invested over 20 billion yuan (approx. US$3.2 billion) in the land market in mainland...

Tokyo, Feb 7, 2012 - (JCN) - ITOCHU Corp. and Mitsui & Co. Ltd have approved the pre-commitment funding for the outer harbour facility associated with the Western Australia iron ore operations, which...

Muscat projects the port of Sohar, 220 km north of Muscat, as the first anchor for a journey to make Oman a key maritime centre between three continents. Industries built there feature a...

Low banana production and the poor state of the roads that carry that fruit from its plantations in Aguan Valley determined Standard Fruit's decision to suspend arrivals, since Dec. 24, to the Honduran...

MWH Global has won a $4.4 million contract with the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), the Broomfield, Colo. company said, reports Bizjournals.com (Jan. 11, 2012). MWH will provide preliminary and final design services for...

The Asociacion para el Desarrollo Integral (Association for Integral Development) has 5 months to deliver the environmental impact study and design for the Port of Aguadulce Feasability Study to be developed in Panama,...

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HEADNOTE PPI jumped aboard the Golden Dragon bus with Metso for a tour around Shandong Province, China Metso is big in the Chinese paper industry, in fact me three top worldwide suppliers, Andritz,...

Four billion dollars over two years would be spent helping develop a national freight program that encompasses highway, marine and rail modes if Congress approves a reauthorization bill currently moving through the U.S....

WASHINGTON - Trade among emerging countries in Asia and South America will surge in the coming decades, and that will require changes in the way different transport modes operate, analysts and industry officials...

Orient Overseas Container Line, a Hong Kong-based ocean carrier, reached an agreement with the Port of Long Beach, Calif., for a 40-year, $4.6 billion terminal lease, believed to be the largest U.S. port...

Oman in 2008/09 weathered the global financial crisis and since then the economy has returned to pre-crisis GDP growth levels. In 2011, the government began investing RO30bn ($77.9bn) under a five-year plan to...

An apartment building spree downtown is getting fresh fuel with an $85 million development proposed for surface parking lots just south of the Cosmopolitan on the Canal. The plan--first reported on IBJ.com on...

Discovered coal reserves at Amaamskoye deposit could increase significantly by 2014 CJSC North Pacific Coal Company Ltd, a partner with Tigers Realm Coal Ltd. of Australia, intends to increase its discovered reserves at...

Tokyo, Jan 26, 2012 - (JCN) - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Musashino Co. have jointly developed the world's first portable liquid-level gauge for vessel fuel tanks, which reduces workload needed to measure a...

More than a year after the federal drilling ban in the Gulf of Mexico swayed many offshore service boat operators to send their fleets to more lucrative waters, those that stayed behind say...

HARTFORD, Conn. - The state is spending nearly $500,000 to develop a strategy to boost the economic potential of Connecticut'sports. Officiais announced that the state has hired a Long Beach, Calif.based consulting group...

NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. economy faces losing billions of dollars in trade unless the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for dredging the Mississippi River is increased to prevent the river from silting...