Luxembourg-based printing and packaging firm Flint Group has acquired Italy-based Eston Chimica for an undisclosed sum. Based in Padova, Eston Chimica produces and markets water-based inks for flexo and gravure applications to printers in ...
Flint Group has opened a new facility in the cosmopolitan district of Beylikduzu, in Istanbul, Turkey for its packaging division. Located 13km from the main container terminal on the European side of Turkey, the new 3800m² Beylikduzu ...
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China's COSCO Shipping Ports Limited Tuesday announced its subsidiary has acquired a 40-percent stake in Italy's Vado Holding B.V. from Maersk Group's APM Terminal for 53 million euros (58.3 million U.S. dollars). Vado Holding operates ...
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DP World Australia has agreed to plans with Austrak to further develop Austrak’s intermodal freight hub at Somerton. DP World Australia will operate the new inland freight hub known as Somerton Rail Port, 23 km north of the Port of ...
Aerial view of the Enfield container terminal. Aurizon has commenced its rail port shuttle from Port Botany to the Enfield intermodal facility in Sydney. The Enfield to Port Botany rail service is part of Aurizon’s investment at ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose two separate proposals by consortia to acquire the 50-year lease of the Port of Melbourne, following careful consideration of potential cross-ownership interests and ...
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The Australian Government, together with private enterprise, plan to build Australia’s largest inland container terminal at Moorebank NSW. For the past seven years the proponents of the proposal, Moorebank Intermodal Company Ltd & ...
Greg Cameron Call for an “Upper Hunter Economic Development Corporation” (Newcastle Herald Editorial, March 9) were also made 20 years ago when the region wanted to participate in the benefits of a container terminal after ...
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Building new rail freight capacity for Port Botany will cost $7 billion. This cost can be avoided by building a rail freight bypass of Sydney, between Newcastle port and Glenfield. Railing containers will enable a rail freight bypass line ...
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Port of Melbourne's new container terminal, operated by Victoria International Container Terminal Ltd (VICTL), will be fitted out with EUR 40 million (approx. AUD 100 million) worth of Cargotec (Kalmar) container handling equipment and ...
Abu Dhabi Terminals (ADT) is set to build a new packaging facility for plastics solutions provider Borouge as part of a contract. The contract was signed by Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge) CEO Abdulaziz Alhajri and ADT CEO Martijn ...
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In the interests of transparency, would you re-consider your decision not to disclose the container-carrying capacity of the Port Botany rail line? As you are aware, the Australian Rail Track Corporation, the line's operator, declines to ...
A privately-funded rail freight bypass of outer western Sydney is opposed by the NSW and Australian governments. Operating between Glenfield and Newcastle, the bypass line is commercially viable when used for railing containers between a ...
Tags: rail freight, container terminal, Allocating rail capacity
The Melbourne Port Capacity Project has reached another significant milestone with the appointment of the maritime works contractor for a package of works at the Port of Melbourne worth around $400 million. Minister for Ports David ...
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Zamakona Yards delivers the Ro-Ro ramp to the Tenerife Container Terminal (TCT) Thursday, Jan 23, 2014 This past Wednesday, 15 January, Zamakona Yards carried out the load testing and delivery of the movable ramp for the Roll on-Roll off ...