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Peel Ports London Medway invests in grain facilities

Dry Bulk 15 Aug 2018

Peel Ports London Medway has completed a significant investment programme into its grain facilities at the Port of Sheerness, strengthening its existing proposition for Kent’s established grain market. Over the past 12 months, Peel Ports has invested a total of £5.4 million to upgrade its handling and storage facilities at the southeast port, increasing its import/export capacity and capability....

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NNPC: Investors Relocate 100,000bd Brownfield Refinery from Turkey to Nigeria

This Day 14 Aug 2018

A brownfield refinery with a production capacity of 100,000 barrels per day (bd) and formerly owned by BP Plc is expected to be relocated from Turkey to Nigeria and co-located alongside the Port Harcourt Refinery, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) disclosed on Tuesday in Abuja ... For example, there is one that is going to be brought in from Turkey to be located near the Port-Harcourt Refinery....

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Low water level of Danube cuts freight capacity in Hungary

Xinhua 14 Aug 2018

Some ports north of Budapest, like the ones in ... Otto Cseh, the CEO of the Budapest Freeport Logistics company, said that the capacity of the port was affected by the low water level of the Danube, and that the shipping company generated a smaller amount of traffic there, and the ship were traveling lighter....

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Last wave of Athenians leave for holidays

Kathimerini 14 Aug 2018

The main ports of Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio were busier than in recent weeks amid reports that ferries on the route to Paros and Tinos were ......

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Dogara Seeks Accountability, Prudence in Maritime Sector

This Day 14 Aug 2018

Speaking at the opening of a three-day investigative public hearing by the House Committee on Ports, Harbours and Waterways, chaired by Hon ... “But for this to happen, the channels of other ports need to be dredged. Reports have it that the Lagos water channel is about 14.5 meters deep, while the Port Harcourt and Calabar channels are less than 10 meters deep, which limits their capacity to receive big cargo ships....

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NNPC plans new100,000bpd brown refineries for Port Harcourt, Warri

Business Day Online 14 Aug 2018

About 100,000 barrels per day brown refineries are being planned by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as part of its refinery collocation initiative designed to boost local refining capacity to end the era of petroleum products importation. �The refineries are to be collocated in Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries....

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Plan under process to secure energy sector

Dawn 14 Aug 2018

Under an agreement with Port Qasim Authority and Fauji Oil Terminal Company, the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) is constructing a new jetty at Port Qasim to handle Mogas imports and a storage capacity to handle more than 325,000 tonnes per day at Karachi, Thallian and Taru Jabba etc....

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Seaplane service likely to start in Kumbh 2019: Nitin Gadkari

The Times of India 14 Aug 2018

On the demand of deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, two vessels of 500 metric ton capacity will be launched soon in Ganga for transport, he added. "We will also construct four river ports in Allahabad," he said and added four ......

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Officials fret over timeline for widening I-565

Decatur Daily 14 Aug 2018

Alabama Department of Transportation officials were quick to say that 2043, and the estimated construction year of 2045, are likely to change ... Subscribe ... “We are spending 10-15 percent of that total on new capacity, and a lot competes for that new-capacity money ... A plan to deepen the Port of Mobile could dramatically increase the number and capacity of container ships there, and much of the freight will need to be trucked north on I-65....

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Glencore PLC (GLNCY) CEO Ivan Glasenberg on Q2 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha 14 Aug 2018

We’ve got significantly higher smelting capacity within the business than what we are mining out of our own operations ... We were talking about Rolleston a while ago, because of situation with the port capacity there and the liability with the port capacity ... You’re obviously ramping up capacity into that latent capacity in zinc and copper, previously you always talked about favoring Brownfield capacity top expansions....

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Synology announces latest 18-series NAS devices

Deccan Chronicle 13 Aug 2018

RS818+/RS818RP+ come with a quad-core processor with the AES-NI hardware encryption engine, quad 1GbE LAN ports, and optional 10GbE NIC support. The storage capacity of RS818+/RS818RP+ can be further expanded with Synology expansion unit RX418, providing up to 8 drives for data management and backup ... The four plug-and-play Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports can be expanded with higher performance 10GbE NICs....

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BAIC African rally gathers speed

China Daily 13 Aug 2018

Auto behemoth deepens overseas expansion with new plant in Port Elizabeth ... Its annual production capacity will be 50,000 vehicles by the end of 2019. Located in Port Elizabeth, a shipping hub in South Africa, the plant is a joint venture between BAIC and South Africa's state-owned Industrial Development Corp, a financial company providing capital support for the country's companies and investment projects....

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EIL to invest Rs 700 crore for LPG terminal at Okha

Live Mint 13 Aug 2018

To enhance the import capacity of LPG, Gujarat Maritime Board had invited bids from private investors to develop port facilities to handle petroleum products near Okha,” said Mukesh Kumar, vice-chairman and CEO of Gujarat Maritime Board – the regulator for ports and shipping activity in the state ... The port is located about 500km from Ahmedabad, the principal city of Gujarat.First Published....

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