FOREIGN PORTS EXPANDING FACILITIES TO ACCOMMODATE SPECIALIZED SHIPS

Today's modern, specialized ships are causing many foreign ports to spend millions of dollars to build new and larger facilities to accommodate them. At Le Havre, France and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, complexes with deep waterways and oil storage tanks are being developed specifically to accommodate tankers of 500,000 dwt and larger. This report concerns the modernization of facilities at the following ports: Rotterdam; Marseilles-Fos; Le Havre; Antwerp; Bremen/Bremerhaven; Southampton; Liverpool; Montreal; Amsterdam; Hong Kong; Flexistowe; Halifax and Saint John.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  P.O. Box 530
  Bristol, CT  United States  06010

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  P.O. Box 350
  Bristol, CT  United States  06010
• Publication Date: 1974-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.
• Serial:
  • Marine Engineering/Log
  • Volume: 79
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp.
  • ISSN: 0732-5460

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Capital investments; Cargo handling equipment; Container handling; Container terminals; Deepwater harbors; Improvements; Port operations; Ports; Productivity
• Uncontrolled Terms: Port finance
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00071913
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Marine Engineering/Log
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 12 1974 12:00AM