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Babcock & Brown to fire up India
Ports are set to benefit from the recent move by Babcock & Brown to add considerable firepower to its India efforts by luring six professionals from ABN AMRO, including the new head of India operations, Manikkan Sanganeswaran.
Safety crackdown for Australian stevedores
Australia is to enforce a national health and safety code for stevedoring after a series of accidents in ports over the past 18 months.
Ports eLearning to target knowledge gaps
Ports and terminals looking to expand the knowledge base of staff can now make use of eLearning products specific to the ports industry.
Car potential boosted on UK east coast
The UK port of Grimsby is looking to build on its car handling prowess with the construction of a new river-side berth.
News in Brief
Bumper year for APM
APM Terminals ended 2007 with a net profit of $411m compared with $99m for the previous year. Throughput amounted to 31.4m containers, an increase of 13%.
New port plan for Ukraine
The Transport and Communications Ministry in Ukraine has produced a new port development strategy, allowing ports to be operated on a landlord basis.
Top Features
Waste not, want not
A glut of current and anticipated environmental directives hang heavy over the port business, as Patrik Wheater explains
Triple hit
Buying second-hand equipment can save you time and money – and there is even the useful side-effect that you are saving environmental resources, too. Felicity Landon reports
Risky business
Brokers claim that marine construction projects are 'often difficult and challenging – and not the favourites of underwriters'. Felicity Landon investigates why this is the case
Comments & Analysis
Bayonne - a bridge too far?
In the past month, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) announced its intention to work with the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal agency tasked with channel maintenance and deepening, on a detailed study of the Bayonne Bridge.
Black holes and disappearing container capacity
Recent forecasts and press comments suggest that the major East-West liner trades are suffering weaker growth rates than had been anticipated. The US recession has caused transpacific trade volumes to decline sharply from nearly 10% growth in 2006 to only 2.2% to North America as a whole in 2007. For 2008, it is unlikely that the Transpacific will see any growth.
