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Fertilizer company CROP PRODUCTION SERVICES, Loveland, CO, purchased 13 acres of property from the PORT OF SUNNYSIDE in Sunnyside, WA. The company plans to build a dry and liquid fertilizer [...]

The Dubai Port World's new reforms for foreign direct investments in shipping ports and mergers are discussed. Fillings for port investments have increased by 73 percent in 2006 due to these reforms.

And then there were four. After a year of merger and acquisition activity that reshuffled the ranks of global terminal operators, four companies have become the dominant players. With lots [...]

If Dubai, the tiny emirate on the Persian Gulf, has its way, it not only soon will be home to the world's tallest building, but also to one of the [...]

Ports on the Great Lakes, which traditionally handle dry and liquid bulk, breakbulk and project cargo, are looking at a future with containers. No, the U.S. and Canada don't plan [...]

Byline: Justin Carretta, online news editor The average vehicle age for trucks servicing the Port of New York/New Jersey is more than a decade old and the port is unable [...]

BYLINE: John Gallagher Con-way Freight completed a merging of operations in its Midwest region as part of the LTL carrier's terminal network downsizing that started last year to make better [...]

BYLINE: Bruce Barnard Babcock & Brown Infrastructure said it would consider selling PD Ports, the operator of Teesport, the United Kingdom's second-largest port. The Australian infrastructure investment fund isn't holding [...]

The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is back before the Surface Transportation Board over that closed rail line it agreed to buy, asking the regulators to knock at least [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The Port of Vancouver will purchase 17 acres of railroad land from BNSF as part of a major rail expansion project. BNSF tentatively agreed Dec. 18, [...]

Nearly three years after a political uproar scuttled DP WorldOs acquisition of P&O PortsO U.S. operations, the Treasury Department has finally released its new regulations governing the approval of future [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher FedEx purchased 77 acres from the Port of Portland to build a distribution center. The site is part of the 700-acre Reynolds Industrial site in Troutdale, [...]

If you were given a blank sheet and told to design the most efficient South Atlantic port system possible, would you specify separate port authorities for the adjacent states of [...]

King County, Wash. approved a plan by the Port of Seattle to acquire a 42-mile rail line from BNSF Railway. The port commission in November approved the proposal to negotiate [...]

Peak Season Falls Flat At West Coast Ports: The peak shipping season at West Coast ports ended with a whimper in October as imports were flat compared to the same [...]

Proposal floated for merger of ports in SC, Ga. Bill Stern, chairman of the South Carolina State Ports Authority, has publicly suggested the eventual merger of his state's port agency [...]

Carrier-controlled terminals gain traction in East Most of the new container terminals springing up along the East and Gulf coasts have something in common - they are carrier-controlled facilities whose [...]

The view from the former Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne, N.J., is spectacular - the Manhattan skyline in the distance, the Statue of Liberty closer by, the parade of big [...]

The Georgia Ports Authority announced Thursday it has bought 175 acres of land on Hutchinson Island in the Savannah River that has more than 3,700 feet of frontage directly across [...]

BYLINE: Courtney Tower The merging of Canada's three Vancouver-area ports into a single operating entity is expected to be completed by the New Year. 'We expect the new Vancouver Fraser [...]

The West Feliciana (La.) Port Commission is hoping a closing paper mill adjacent to its property will result in free land and a jolt to its campaign to attract more [...]

BYLINE: Courtney Tower OTTAWA -- The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan on Thursday announced it had completed the purchase of New York Container Terminal, rounding out its $2.4-billion acquisition of four [...]

After delivering a lesson in hard bargaining, a firm representing 271,000 active and retired schoolteachers is leasing a piece of Staten Island''s waterfront. The Port of New York and New [...]

BYLINE: Peter T. Leach Maher Terminals, the biggest container terminal in New York Harbor, said Tuesday that it has agreed to be acquired by Deutsche Bank of Germany. No financial [...]

BYLINE: Peter T. Leach NEWARK, N.J. -- Under political pressure, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has agreed to allow DP World to proceed with the sale [...]

REVIEW: Few Americans, indeed few investors, spent much time thinking about ports and terminals until last March, when, out of the blue, news came that - as reported by the [...]

Well-educated? Yes, but the teachers whose pensions are managed by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan presumably know little or nothing about running container terminals. They're more interested in making sure [...]

BYLINE: Courtney Tower OTTAWA -- Canada's Vancouver-area ports have approved their planned integration into a single port authority. The boards of directors for the Vancouver Port Authority, Fraser River Port [...]

When the DP World fiasco hit the news last winter, many Ameri-cans suddenly discovered that U.S. ports had container terminals. So did Wall Street. Ports traditionally have attracted little attention [...]

NEW YORK: The US-based consultants for Dubai Ports World (DPW), which acquired and was to run several US ports as part of its takeover of British firm P&O, have launched [...]

Dubai-based DP World has agreed to delay the takeover of the six US ports it is due to acquire through its purchase of P&O. The US part of the deal [...]

A row has broken out over the purchase by a Dubai-based company of the rights to operate several big American ports. Senior politicians--Republicans as well as Democrats--want to stop the [...]

WASHINGTON - President Bush, defying bipartisan opposition, said Tuesday he would veto legislation seeking to halt an Arab company's takeover of operations at a half-dozen major ports, including New York, [...]

Investors in P&O have a week to make up their mind on whether to accept a #3.3 billion offer for the group from Dubai Ports World. Individual and institutional investors [...]

P&O has received an approach from the investment arm of the Singapore government that could lead to an offer for the group to rival a #3.3 billion bid from DP [...]

Detroit City Council on Friday approved a deal by the Detroit-Wayne County Port Authority to pull the defunct Detroit Marine Terminal off the auction block. The deal would transfer ownership [...]

The Port of Everett announced earlier last month that a major step has been taken to convert the Mukilteo Tank Farm site into a multimodal transportation facility. The Unites States [...]

OMAN is planning to privatise Sohar port before its construction is completed, the Transport Ministry announced on October 17. Work on the port, which is located in the north of [...]

Two port operations along the West Coast will be privatized by the government of Mexico. The ports of Lazaro Cardenas and Guaymas, which is along the Gulf of California, are planned for privatization.

THE SOUTH Australian government has put back the sale timetable for state port authority Ports Corp by three months, targeting to complete the sale at the end of the third [...]

Port of Houston Authority's executive director Tom Kornegay has unveiled a plan to merge operations at Port of Galveston to create a regional port for Texas. The merger plan calls for use of the excess underutilized space at the Port of Galveston. A bill to consolidate the two ports operations is before Texas Legislature.

By Marois, Michael B. The San Diego Unified Port District has signed a deal to buy an electric power plant from San Diego Gas & Electric for $110 million. The [...]

Hutchison International Port Holdings Ltd. in Hong Kong, the largest container handler in the world, is looking to expand in Europe. Hutchison is considering investing in European Combined Terminals, the premier terminal in Northern Europe. Hutchison operates Hong Kong International Terminals Ltd. and 17 other ports in Asia, Europe and the Americas. European Combined Terminals handled the equivalent of 4 million 20-foot containers in 1997. ECT currently handles 70% of the market in container handling operations in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.