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...In 2017, the company exported 90 containers of logs a week....
...Now EIG is looking to expand the port and develop new businesses, from container terminals to power plants and a rail connection — many of which have attracted Chinese interest....
...If the Warburg bid is successful, it would be the latest in a string of Asian deals for BNP Paribas, which led a group of banks that provided $1.65bn to France’s CMA CGM to buy Singapore shipping container...
...Consumers in China bought 12.5 per cent fewer containers of instant noodles in 2015 than they did a year earlier....
...Charter rates for container vessels barely cover the operating costs, leaving shipping companies with little ability to pay their debts....
...Maersk Line, which in 1999 bought Sea-Land, the last big US container line, is the biggest operator of such services....
...“Now it could just be a container that’s fallen off a ship – we just don’t know.”...
...Company in a $1.6bn deal that will tie up Russia’s two biggest container operators. http://on.ft.com/172FeTB Hankook poised for first US tyre factory Hankook Tire is poised to build its first US plant...
...The big beneficiary of this change in wine transport has been a hangar in Avonmouth in southwest England that is the size of 12 football pitches....
...On the modern highway that runs from Nanning, the capital of the southern province of Guangxi, down to Qinzhou port, something is conspicuously missing – large trucks carrying the kind of 40-foot cargo containers...
...France’s EDF has been in talks with China Guangdong Nuclear Power on teaming up to build a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset, southwest England....
ML Capital has appointed Dermot Smurfit as chairman of the asset management group
...Additionally it reaffirmed plans to sell its UK downstream operations, including a retail network and a refinery in southwest Wales....
...Two other railway operators – Globaltrans, a private Russian rail freight operator, and TransContainer, the container arm of Russia’s state-owned rail company – are listed in London....
...together with Kachikaihatsu, a real estate development and consulting company, came up with the idea for the hotel, raised Y1bn ($12m) in funds from investors and arranged to have the 40-foot shipping containers...
...Nevertheless, the LNG vessel market has been a relative bright spot, compared with a drought of orders for bulk ships and container ships, as a greater reliance on imported gas by Japan after last year’s...
...The questions are how long the worst-performing shipping sectors – oil tankers, container shipping and, to a lesser extent, dry bulk – will remain trapped in the downward spiral and how the industry will...
...On container shipping, he said: “We could very well see at some point, if containers get back to the problem period they were in a year ago, we could get into container ships.”...
...HNA vies for GE’s container leasing unit HNA Group, the Chinese conglomerate, has emerged as a leading bidder for GE SeaCo, the container leasing business put on the block by General Electric and its joint...
...Tanker Pacific, a Singapore-based shipowner, has laid up some vessels rather than accept current rates, according to Lloyd’s List, the shipping newspaper....
...It has snapped up assets ranging from luggage maker Samsonite (sold recently for a threefold return); the New York container terminal; the Toronto Maple Leafs franchise; Brazilian forests and the New Zealand...
...Traders said InBev could look to sell Anheuser’s Metal Container unit, the second-largest US drinks can maker....
...The deal provoked a political storm in Washington as politicians refused to have an Arab company running key American container terminals....
...The Mercedes M-Class sport-utility has been nominated for a handsome contraption featuring a stainless-steel frame and a spring-loaded device that can hold down even the tallest containers....
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