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Month: October 2010

Strikes cause chaos at French box terminals

Container lines are advising shippers and forwarders to divert French-bound cargo through Spanish or Italian ports as a result of new strike action at the Fos container terminals near Marseilles. A strike has been called to take...

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Bidders for Mumbai-area terminal await APM ruling

Infrastructure majors like DP World, PSA International, Sterlite Industries, Adani Enterprises and GVK have given bids for setting up a fourth container terminal at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) near Mumbai. The...

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Lost shipping containers question

A British MEP has told the European Parliament that 2,000 containers are lost overboard from ships in EU waters every year. Labour’s Brian Simpson – who chairs the parliament’s Transport Committee – was...

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