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State railway operator “Kazakhstan temir zholy”, COSCO Shipping Corporation and Lianyungang Port signed an investment agreement on joint development of free economic zone (FEZ) “Khorgos – Eastern Gate”.The project provides construction of a cross-border cooperation center, dry port, logistics and industrial park. Chinese investors will jointly purchase 49% of participation in dry port of Khorgos Gateway.Besides, the agreement is aimed at further development of cooperation between Kazakhstan and ... Read More

The construction of a new grain terminal of LLC Novotech-Terminal has begun in the Odesa commercial sea port. Its design capacity is roughly 3 MMT a year. Remarkably, this construction became possible due to financial support from Pivdenny Bank together with LLC Novotech-Terminal’s leasing partner Tekom-Lease, reports UkrAgroConsult. The new grain terminal will be located on the port’s berths No. 25 and No. 26 able to accommodate vessels with lengths of up to 250 m and draughts of... Read More

Ports Izmail, Reni and Nikolayev showed growth cargo handling in 2016. In 2016 the total amount of cargoes handled by Ukrainian sea ports equaled to 131,7 mln tons which is 9% or 12,8 mln tons less than at the same period of 2015. This was reported by the Administration of sea ports of Ukraine (ASPU). The ports which have shown a growth of cargo handling are: Izmail port (+18% or +0,8 mln tons); Reni port (+7% or +65 th. tons); Nikolayev port (+1% or +191 th. tons); The ports which have... Read More

On Thursday, 2nd February 2017, a mega-container vessel of Maersk Corporation named Maersk Elba became the largest vessel that has ever called in Israel. This was reported by Haifa port authorities after the ship was moored at Carmel Container Terminal. Carmel Terminal was opened in 2010 and became the largest and most modern container terminal in Israel, having received the ability to handle up to 1 million TEU per year. At the present day the terminal has six Super Post Panamax cranes which c... Read More

The number of detainees on the border of Ukraine with the Russian Federation of railway cars bound for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, at 9:00 on August 1 to 143, but 106 of them (74,1%) were sent by the changed route, said the Ukrainian operational headquarters response. “33 is redirected to a receiving station of the goods, that is returned to the consignor, the other 4 remain at the border crossings”, – said in the headquarters on Monday.In two years Ukraine has lost 19 positions... Read More