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DP World will manage the Canadian port of Nanaimo
The Middle Eastern group has yielded its participation in Med Europe Terminal to CMA CGM
January 4, 2012
DP World Vancouver, branch of the terminalista group DP World of Dubay, has signed a triennial agreement with the Nanaimo Port Authority based on which the society of the Middle Eastern group will operate the harbour structures of the Canadian port.
The understanding previews the development of various types of enclosed traffic the transport of container from and for the island of Vancouver on which the port of Nanaimo is situated, port of call that currently is constituted by three docks used mainly for the traffic of producing forest let alone of salt and kaolin and from a dock for the cruise ships that is inaugurated last May.
The president of the Nanaimo Port Authority, Bernie Dumas, has explained that "the port intends to import and to export a greater variety of merceologie and - he has added - our agreement with DP World, thanks to its immense experience he is in handling of the container that of other goods, affords us to pursue new business opportunity and to reduce our dependency from an only market".
While in the past DP World weeks its participation of 25% in Med Europe Terminal, society has yielded that the container manages terminal of the area of Mourepiane of the port of Marseilles, to the French shipowning group CMA CGM that therefore now stops the entire capital of Med Europe Terminal through the filial Terminal Link and its society integrally controlled Intramar.
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