Sentences with phrase «pelepas container port»

Groupe Bollore's Bollore Africa Logistics has for years been a corporate powerhouse in former French colonies across West Africa as well as some Anglophone states, holding 16 container port concessions, rail concessions and employing 25,000 people.

CONAKRY, April 24 - Bollore Group's concession to build a container port in Guinea's capital Conakry was in strict compliance with the law, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, reacting to news of a probe by French authorities into the group's Africa operations.

Just to the west of Forest City is Malaysia's Tanjung Pelepas container port, which is busier than the ports of Los Angeles or New York.

«It will also position us as one of the fastest growing container ports on the east coast.»

For example it controls the main container port at Mariel, which has signed partnership deals with US Gulf Coast ports and the Port of Virginia.

Combined, the side - by - side facilities are the sixth busiest container port in the world and the busiest in the United States.

Felixstowe not only the home of SCUK, it is also the largest container port in the UK.

We are introduced to Caitlin at the Seattle Aquarium, where she waits for her mother Sheri, who works as a docker at a container port, to pick her up at the end of the school day.

Twelve year old Caitlin lives alone with her mother - a docker at the local container port - in subsidized housing next to an airport in Seattle.

Milstein says: «I was interested in documenting the patterns, layering, and complexity of cities, highlighting airports, container ports, recreational facilities, and residential and commercial developments, all of which grow organically over time and are connected by roads and arterial highways like a living organism.

Now fake shipping containers have come to North America; On the way to a meeting in Vancouver's Strathcona district up near the container port, I was shocked to see what I thought was the biggest container housing project ever, except it's not; it's a building designed to look like a big stack of containers.

Southampton, which has Britain's second largest container port and is Europe's busiest cruise terminal, is one of nine UK cities cited by the World Health Organisation as breaching air quality guidelines even though it has little manufacturing.

The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is among the world's largest shipping ports.

Over the same period, most U.S. container ports are projected to double the volume of cargo.

Oakland's cargo volume makes it the fifth busiest container port in the United States.

Not exact matches

Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure, finding 8,740 kilos of the drug hidden among 1,080 boxes of bananas in a shipping container at the southern port of Algeciras.

«Many comments reflected the negative impact of the Asian holiday period, concerns about tariffs and difficulties in moving containers from ports to using locations,» Timothy Fiore, Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, said in the press release for the survey.

The competition watchdog has further delayed its decision on the $ 9 billion takeover of rail and ports giant Asciano, after receiving complaints that the deal would reduce competition in the container logistics business.

Fremantle Port has maintained national recognition as a leader in container handling rates.Since December 2000, the port has outperformed national rivals Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Retailers have been forced to pay fees to trucking companies to compensate for the increased time and trouble, while shipping companies have been diverting container ships carrying Northeast - bound cargo to ports in Baltimore, Montreal and elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

These mega-projects are fraught with challenges ranging from new engineering demands to public opposition.But to look at any one pipeline or container - port controversy in isolation is to miss the big picture of inexorable change in the world economy and Canada's place within it.

Hundreds of containers shipped from the U.S. or the Gulf were left stranded in the Pakistani port of Karachi until mid-2012.

The Port of Chicago is one of the nation's largest inland cargo ports, and the city is the world's third - largest handler of shipping containers (after Singapore and Hong Kong).

We are connected to the world by the fastest - growing port and second busiest container exporter in the United States (Savannah), three major interstates which enable you to reach 80 % of the U.S. market in two hours by plane and two days by truck, and Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's most traveled airport with over 103 million passengers served in 2017.

With a new container terminal planned for Contrecoeur, the Port of Montreal is upping its competitive advantage By Mark Cardwell By definition, a port can be one of two......

On February 20, Madeleine Paquin, chief executive of Logistec Corp., a handler of bulk goods and containers at 30 ports in eastern North America, used a speech at the same venue to nudge her fellow executives to invest in local start - ups, as Logistec has.

Transporting containers from ports inland via railroads is 10 - 30 % more cost efficient than shipping by trucks.

This initiative, which will start next year and continue through 2020, will double container capacity, position the port for future growth, create thousands of jobs, improve efficiency, and increase tax revenues.

Improvements to the port's automobile - handling operation will include the addition of 155 paved and fenced acres above the flood plain at the port's Southport site; the conversion of the former seaplane hangar at Southport into a second auto - processing site; enhancements at the main auto - processing site at Pier 98 Annex; and the establishment of a framework that provides flexibility for use of the land the Port needs for containers and automobiles, as determined by market demands.

The improvements will result in doubling container capacity at the port, provide increased breakbulk cargo capacity, and bring a substantial increase in automobile - handling capacity.

Johnson has a combined 20 years of experience in container shipping (Maersk), port investments (Hutchison), and sell - side equity research coverage (JP Morgan, Jeffries) of the shipping industry.

«Every container has its own story and so many things can go wrong on the ground or in the water — like weather or local strikes at the port — to create delays.

By testing for MBC — the same pesticide that is causing all the imported OJ containers to stop at U.S. ports of entry.

London has suffered the fate of many once - great port cities — container ships now discharge their cargoes far down the Thames, and the city's wharves are deserted.

Today, we are going to expand the port to be able to take four times the volume that it currently takes and we are creating four new berths of 16 metres deep that can take the largest container vessels because Ghana's import volumes have risen and if you project the rate of growth of the country, there will be no space in Tema Port to be able to take anything in a few years.

Right now, Marisa is very concerned that our borders and ports are vulnerable — the vast majority of cargo containers enter our country through ship or truck, and yet the inspection rates for both are woefully low.

«Plans are far advanced to construct four container terminals, an access road from the ports to the Motorway and expand the Motorway from four lanes to six lanes,» he announced.

In the days since Hurricane Maria hit, thousands of containers of goods have piled up in Puerto Rico's ports.

Included in central New York's upstate revitalization plan is $ 40 million to develop an inland port that will process international freight containers coming from the Port of New York and New Jersey.

An under pressure Mr. Agampim confirmed to this paper that three 40 - footer container of chicken products, were cleared from the port with some sent all the way to Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region, and mentioned the owners of the consignments as White Stones Frozen Foods Limited, the Ghana Ports and Habours Authority (GHPHA) board member.

A container terminal in New York Harbor is preparing to accept reservations for trucks to pick up or drop off cargo, in an effort to reduce congestion in the East Coast's busiest port complex.

On Saturday, November 28, President Magulufi announced the firing of Tanzania's Revenue Authority Commissioner over 400 missing containers at the port worth 80 billion Tanzania Shillings.

The state's plan calls for expanding the CSX rail yard in the town of DeWitt to handle 30,000 containers a year via rail between central New York and ports in the New York - New Jersey region.

Schumer helped port officials secure a new container reach stacker, along with a dump truck and two generators from the federal government's surplus equipment program.

The DCCC ad hitting former Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R - Diamond Bar) attacks him for votes on sales taxes, income taxes, vehicle license fees, and port containers.

Scientists model the movement of ants to streamline the handling of shipping containers at international ports.

He estimated that the entire device, when built, could be transported by truck through city streets or past shipping containers in ports.

In September 2006, agents descended on two ports in Rio de Janeiro state and seized 1.65 metric tons of endangered flowers packed inside a shipping container.

Now scientists have modeled this extremely efficient foraging to optimize the handling of shipping containers at international ports.

Cargo containers from the port would be unloaded from trucks and put onto trains at the proposed railyard, bringing an estimated 1.5 million more truck trips to the Hudson School neighborhood yearly.