Monday 8 September 08 - 08:30
 

Bevis Marks

  • BUSAN - COUNTING THE COST

    01 Oct 2003

    In the weeks after Typhoon Maemi's visitation upon Busan, the parties concerned are starting to count the cost. Sources say that Typhoon Maemi has extended the range of what scale of loss can be imagined for a modern container port. It is already looking like the largest insured loss in the history of the container port industry. 

Bulk Trades

Dredging

Industry News Development & Investment

  • JNPT backtracks on MGT

    01 Oct 2003

    Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has dropped proposals to adopt the Minimum Guaranteed Throughput (MGT) formula as part of bid conditions linked to the construction of the third container terminal. 

  • ICTSI calls for tenders for Gdynia

    01 Oct 2003

    International Container Services Inc (ICTSI) is to press ahead immediately with the $100m expansion plan for its Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in Gdynia. Formal approval for the two-phase plan was ratified at the beginning of October in the wake of sustained traffic advances at the terminal following ICTSI's takeover in May. ICTSI secured ownership of BCT via one of Poland's most successful and hotly contested privatisation initiatives which saw it pay some $42m for BCT. 

  • PSA out-manoeuvred in Shanghai..

    01 Oct 2003

    Confusion surrounds the $12.07bn development of a new 54-berth deep-water port on Yangshan Island, which will be connected to Shanghai via a new 30km bridge. 

  • ICTSI tipped for Port of Spain

    01 Oct 2003

    Reports from Trinidad indicate that International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has secured the container handling concession at Port of Spain. 

  • Russians to double grain export capacity

    01 Oct 2003

    Over-reliance on grain exporting facilities in the Ukraine and the former Soviet Union has prompted the Russian government to channel funding towards increasing grain handling facilities at its own ports. 

  • Board questions new Santos car terminal

    01 Oct 2003

    The Board of Directors of the port of Santos (CAP) is examining the decision of the port company, Codesp, to permit Santos Brasil S.A. to establish a temporary new vehicles terminal on land allocated to develop the container trade. 

  • ABP posts 7% increase

    01 Oct 2003

    Whilst ABP's UK ports and transport turnover was up 7% to £172m in the first half of 2003, operating profit increased just 4% to £74m. 

  • Maputo adds US$300m to economy

    01 Oct 2003

     

  • Tanga targets northern trade

    01 Oct 2003

    Tanzania's second port of Tanga is targeting exporters in the country's northern regions of Kilimanjara and Arusha in a concerted drive to expand its hinterland. 

  • Lubeck plans for modal switch

    01 Oct 2003

    "The volume of cargo suitable for rail transport has risen. 

  • Fiji ports get upgrade - and shake-up

    01 Oct 2003

    Work will start in January on upgrading and expanding Fiji's Lautoka and Suva ports. 

  • Veracruz twice as expensive as Barcelona

    01 Oct 2003

     

  • India adds terminal capacity

    01 Oct 2003

    P&O Ports will not be interested in a new container terminal development at the Indian port of Hazira, which it says is "not a viable site" given adverse tidal and weather conditions. The company reports that it had looked three times at Hazira before rejecting it. To give some protection against adverse tides, a new breakwater is under development. 

  • Pre-feasibility study for new Panama Canal in October

    01 Oct 2003

    Consultants Parsons Brinkerhoff International and Montgomery Watson-Harza are due to present a prefeasibility study for the Panama Canal expansion project this month with final studies then to be undertaken in 2004. The new Canal project is being driven by the ever-expanding size of the world's maritime fleet, of which just 8% is currently composed of postPanamax ships although this is expected to grow to 30% within 30 years, making the existing Canal infrastructure increasingly obsolete. 

  • Danes to build Oluvil

    01 Oct 2003

     

  • Constantza hopes for a smooth river

    01 Oct 2003

    A quarter of all cargo handled each year in the Black Sea port of Constantza, or 10m tonnes, comes from inland shipping on the Danube. With the first stage of a new container terminal opening this year, the Romanian port is hoping for stability on that waterway. 

  • Chittagong to get gantries

    01 Oct 2003

    Construction of Chittagong's New Moorings container terminal is due to start this year and be completed by December 2005. 

  • Forth Ports weighs up MDHC

    01 Oct 2003

    The Scotsman has reported that Forth Ports is mulling a takeover approach to Mersey Docks and Harbour Company to create a £500m port and property giant. 

  • Chennai choked

    01 Oct 2003

     

  • Asia: 'The way forward'

    01 Oct 2003

    A study into the drastic fall in infrastructure investment in Asia since the currency crisis of 1997 has been initiated by the region's three major development financial institutions. Both public and private sector financing for infrastructure have fallen despite the huge need for infrastructure development in the Asia-Pacific region and the strong correlation between economic development and poverty reduction. 

  • Confusion in Qingdao

    01 Oct 2003

    Qingdao Port Authority (QPA) has confirmed its decision to award a major expansion contract, Qianwan Phase IV, to a consortium after the same project was apparently awarded to CSX World Terminals by the Qingdao municipal government. 

  • Copersucar expands capacity at Santos

    01 Oct 2003

    The Brazilian Copersucar Co-operative has revealed plans to continue adding to its capacity at the port of Santos where it operates the Copersucar Sugar Terminal (TAC). A new 110,000-tonne dual-cell silo is to be developed out of the existing XI storage area, which will allow the company to simultaneously handle two products, such as soya and sugar in either flour or granule formats. 

  • Evergreen gets new Tacoma terminal

    01 Oct 2003

    The port of Tacoma has awarded the largest single capital improvement contract in its history. ICON Materials, the low bidder, will manage construction of a new container terminal for Evergreen America Inc. 

  • GPA reports growth at both ports

    01 Oct 2003

    Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has announced a $110m project at Savannah that will expand the capacity of the Garden City Terminal by 20% increasing what is already claimed to be the largest single terminal container facility on the coast between Maine and Texas. 

  • APM leases Shanghai berths

    01 Oct 2003

    APM Terminals has leased six berths at Shanghai's Waigaoqiao Container Terminal complex for a period of 50 years from Shanghai Port Container Company. 

Industry News Products & Systems

  • Simulation tests viability of the choice

    01 Oct 2003

    Kalmar is offering a new range of services through its Terminal Development Unit. Its clients can now use a simulation software application for the planning of logistics solutions and investment decisions at various types of container ports. 

  • Gottwald MHC for Tecon

    01 Oct 2003

    Gottwald Port Technology has sold another 100-tonne HMK 300 E Mobile Harbour Crane to Tecon in the port of Rio Grande on the Uruguay border. 

  • Transas scores with ABP

    01 Oct 2003

    Transas Marine is to supply a Vessel Traffic System for Associated British Port's (ABP) South Wales Ports of Cardiff, Barry, Newport, Swansea and Port Talbot. The system will provide vessel position, movements, timings and speed. 

  • Riga hosts Baltic Maritime Trade Summit

    01 Oct 2003

     

  • Earls spreads capacity

    01 Oct 2003

    Earls Industries has moved its engineering, fabrication, sales and service activities to a new facility in greater Vancouver. 

  • Jan De Nul builds in China

    01 Oct 2003

    51morder for four self-propelled split-hopper barges with a capacity of €3,700m 3each for delivery from March 2005. The barges will be built by Tianjin Xinhe Shipyard in China. 

  • Kalmar's terminal tractors go global

    01 Oct 2003

    Kalmar's aim to develop a global production latform for terminal tractors has moved forward with the first units rolling out of its Shanghai assembly plant. 

  • Van Oord to buy out Ballast HAM

    01 Oct 2003

    The Royal BAM Group's Ballast HAM Dredging (BHD) and Van Oord are to merge. 

  • Ports of the World is out

    01 Oct 2003

    Lloyd's List Ports of the World 2004, featuring over 2,600 commercially active ports, has been published. 55 new ports have been added to the two-volume set which costs £249/$413. 

Industry News Regulation & Environment

  • Tyne nurtures modal shift and lapwings

    01 Oct 2003

    The Volkswagen Group has opened its new eco-friendly £5.6m Tyne Distribution Centre. The 20-hectare car import facility at Maritime Park, North Shields, is a secure storage compound accommodating up to 8,000 cars. Approximately 60,000 cars will pass through the port in 2004. 200 people have worked on the site, which has now created 25 permanent jobs. 

  • Long Beach cuts coke dust

    01 Oct 2003

    The percentage of petroleum coke dust found in samples collected around the port in the first quarter of this year shows a 7% concentration, only slightly higher than the 6% found in the first quarter of 2002. The concentration remains down significantly from the 21% in 1996 and the 19% recorded as recently as 2001. In recent years, the port has covered all petroleum coke storage piles, increased street sweeping and upgraded coke handling equipment. 

Industry News Security

  • Ledwood's Surveillance Buoy

    01 Oct 2003

    Ledwood Technology is introducing a PC based coastal surveillance system. 

  • Thales offers alternatives to improve port security

    01 Oct 2003

    Thales Navigation has come up with two interesting systems challenging AIS (Automatic Identification System). The launch of its advanced Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) has reopened the debate about tracking ships to aid maritime security. 

  • Feinstein concerned over uranium shipment

    01 Oct 2003

    "I think this is a case in point which established the soft underbelly of national security and homeland defence in the United States, " Californian democratic senator, Dianne Feinstein stated recently. 

  • TT Club to shine the light

    01 Oct 2003

    Starting next month, the TT Club will be contributing to Port Strategy on the ubiquitous topic of port security. 

  • Africans need to upgrade port security

    01 Oct 2003

    Ferdinand Gauze, president of the Port Management Association of West and Central Africa, has called upon member states to make a collective effort to fight terrorism and implement the new International Port & Ship facility code. 

  • MTL submits its security plan

    01 Oct 2003

     

News

  • SCANNING THE HORIZON

    01 Oct 2003

    The considerable debate on port security has lead to conflicting information in the past. Now though, more structure is falling into place to provide ports with clearer direction. Steve Cameron reports. 

Port Investment

  • The 'Landmines' to Avoid

    01 Oct 2003

    Mike Mundy draws on his experience of the port privatisation process and highlights the "landmines" government agencies and port authorities keep stepping on 

Port Pricing

  • Show me the MONEY PART II

    01 Oct 2003

    In his second article on port pricing, Gustaaf de Monie points the way to a more independent regime in which port authorities need to operate, free of political interference. 

Regional Survey

  • Chinese Typhoon

    01 Oct 2003

    Gavin van Marle reports on the scramble for additional container terminal capacity in China. 

Terminal Performance

  • TERMINAL SOLUTIONS for Smaller Ports

    01 Oct 2003

    Terminal operating systems are well-established features of the bigger container ports but smaller terminals are grasping their benefits too. Cathy Hayward reports. 

Terminalperformance

  • STACK 'EM HIGH

    01 Oct 2003

    Fazilette Khan finds that forklifts continue their vital role in moving breakbulk cargoes and empties around the terminal. And the technical specs are still being tweaked. 

Viewpoint

  • MARRYING THE NEW TO THE OLD

    01 Oct 2003

    Thirty-odd years ago a little single-decker called the HELMSDALE traded from Orkney to Leith with barrels, butts and hogsheads for the Midlothian distilleries. The whisky cargo was just too much of a temptation for the stevedores. The gangs trouped on board armed with plastic buckets. "Watch and learn laddie, " said the foreman when I asked what was going on. 

Port Security 1/2 October.