Associated British Ports (ABP) is to develop a new salt storage and distribution centre at the Port of Ayr, Scotland, for Peacock Salt, foll...

The northern Mexican Gulf port of El Mezquital is to be the recipient of a US$50m development programme, which will involve the construction...

Martin Marietta recently offloaded 20,000t of limestone rock at a newly opened laydown area on the east side of the port of Pensacola, Flori...

One of the biggest questions in the ports industry in recent months has been answered....

Lafarge Cement UK has appointed Freightliner Heavy Haul as preferred rail transport supplier for its bulk cement shipments in the UK. Lafarg...

US-based Martin Engineering has entered into an agreement with its Indonesia distributor, PT Suprabakti Mandiri, to form a new joint venture...

UK-based Spiroflow has introduced a new bulk bag unloading station incorporating cone valve technology that combines a higher level of disch...

A Rs4.50bn (US$93m) modernisation plan has been drawn up by the Visakhapatanam (Vizag) Port Trust (VPT) to upgrade bulk handling facilities ...

Dubai Aluminium (Dubal) has awarded K-Line a five-year contract for the shipment of alumina from Bunbury, Australia....

Germany-based Aumund Fordertechnik has broadened its bulk handling equipment range with the acquisition of B&W Mechanical Handling of the UK...

An agreement signed between Lyttelton Port Company Ltd (LPC) and Solid Energy New Zealand Ltd has set terms for the long-term future of coal...

Colombia's port and transport regulator has announced that three new Atlantic coal ports are in the planning stage, but the go-ahead will on...

The Queensland port of Gladstone has achieved a record throughput for the 2001/02 financial year, with 53.8 mt of cargo handled across its w...

Caterpillar has announced plans to expand its global remanufacturing business by opening a remanufacturing facility in Shrewsbury, UK....

Harwich International Port (HIP) in the UK, part of Hutchison Port Holdings, has signed a new 15-year contract with Derby Cement Ltd (DCL) t...