China Shipping Group (CSG) has ordered four 230,000 dwt ore carriers for US$360.64M from Longxue Shipbuilding for delivery in 2011....

Plans for a dry port at Malaba in Uganda have been periodically drawn up and then shelved over the past 12 years, but there now seems to be ...

Sohar Industrial Port Company (SAOC) in Oman and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have signed an addendum to the existing concession agreemen...

CVRD - or Vale as it has been rebranded - has announced a US$11B investment plan for 2008, almost 50% up on the US$7.5B being invested in 20...

A combined barge/truck service for some 45,000 tpa of clinker shipments has been launched on the River Marne by Novergie (Groupe Suez) and T...

China is expected to take 50% of Australian mining giant BHP Billiton’s iron ore output this year, up from 20% in 2002, according to a com...

The Powerscreen H6203, manufactured for large volume processing of coal, crushed stone, sand and gravel, recycled concrete and asphalt, is b...

Sand, gravel and other loose bulk construction materials are traditionally “mainstays” of river freight transport throughout Europe, but...

Australia is to become an even larger iron ore supplier as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto ramp up production in the Pilbara region from existing...

Throughput at India’s Mumbai port increased by 11% to 28.1 mt in the first six months of the current financial year, which ends in March 2...

The concept of ship loaders is an extremely broad one and designs are available for practically all bulk cargoes and applications, to meet l...

Nowadays many suppliers of silos and other types of covered storage have discovered that it is commercially expedient to adopt a totalsystem...

The International Grains Council (IGC) considers the outlook for grains in 2007/08 to be somewhat volatile, with tight supply and strong dem...

The world’s largest collection of self-unloaders, the Great Lakes fleet, is watching two events slowly unfold, one with alarm and the othe...

While many manufacturers of heavy-duty materials handling equipment such as shiploaders, stackers and reclaimers are also proficient in desi...