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Sharjah Business Summit 2017, organised by Gulftainer, the world’s largest privately owned independent port operator, will put the spotlight on innovation in the transport and logistics sector and Sharjah’s state-of-the-art infrastructure. Co-hosted by its logistics subsidiary, Momentum Logistics, the event is supported by Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), Sharjah Municipality, Sharjah Ports ...

Gulftainer has announced the appointment of Flemming Dalgaard as the new Chief Executive Officer of the group. The Sharjah-headquartered group is now the the world’s largest privately-owned, independent port operator, operating and managing ports and logistics businesses in the UAE and internationally across Iraq, Brazil, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the USA. The operator was recently presented with the ‘Port Operator ...

Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority (Sharjah RTA) has announced that it will replace 767 of its taxi cabs over the next six months, at a cost of AED 42.75 million (US$ 11.6 million). Sharjah Taxi’s fleet has grown from 720 cabs in 2012 to 1,540 this year, transporting an estimated 16.2 million people per annum and accounting for nearly 30 ...

Sharjah’s east coast Khorfakkan Port has been ranked in the top ten most productive ports in the world, according to the 2014 JOC Port Productivity report. The Journal of Commerce compiled the report based on data gathered about 483 terminals and 771 ports from ocean freight carriers representing more than 75 percent of global capacity. All ports listed in the ...

ATS, a UAE-based logistics company catering to the global shipping, logistics and marine industries, has doubled the capacity of its liquid storage terminal at Sharjah’s Hamriyah Free Zone as part of an estimated AED 100 million (US$ 27m) investment in the facility. The state-of-art liquid storage terminal has increased capacity from its initial 22,000 cubic meters to 42,000 cubic meters ...

The Sharjah-headquartered international port operator Gulftainer has announced the commercial opening of its new Canaveral Cargo Terminal at Port Canaveral in Florida, USA. GT USA, Gulftainer’s US business, signed a 35-year agreement with Port Canaveral last year to manage the port’s new container and multipurpose sea cargo terminal. Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo and naval port in Brevard County, ...

Global port terminal operator Gulftainer, recorded an 8 percent growth in container volume in 2014, handling a total of 6.4 million twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) across its global operations portfolio. Gulftainer is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sharjah-based Crescent Enterprises and operates Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT) located at Port Khaled in the heart of the city of Sharjah, Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) ...

Sharjah-headquartered terminal operator Gulftainer has reported that the Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT) handled 400,000 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) during 2014, recording double-digit growth compared to previous year’s volumes. SCT is managed and operated by Gulftainer on behalf of the Sharjah Port Authority. The terminal operator credited the arrival of new services throughout the year with boosting throughput, including UASC’s Gulf India ...

Sharjah-headquartered terminal operator Gulftainer has invested US$60 million (AED 220m) in four state-of-the-art ship to shore (STS) and 12 rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes at the Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT), significantly strengthening the terminal’s operational capability and overall productivity. According to Gulftainer, the new, advanced STS cranes are larger, with a greater outreach to better service massive 18,000 twenty-foot container ...

Hazel International FZE (HIF), owned by Indian conglomerate Veritas (India) Limited (VIL), has begun construction of a US$ 126.45 million (AED 464.5m) liquid and solid cargo handling terminal at Sharjah’s Hamriyah Free Zone. The new terminal is expected to make the free zone the second largest hub for petrochemicals, oil and gas bunkering and storage in the UAE. The new ...