Monday 13 October 08 - 12:45
 

Bevis Marks

  • Tsunami update

    01 Jan 2005

    In the immediate aftermath of the events on 26th December last year, the maritime sector as a whole seemed to have escaped rather lightly in the tragic circumstances. Only Chennai in India and Galle in Sri Lanka had serious damage to report, and then, in the scale of things, nothing of great insurable concern. Amidst all the personal tragedies, the insurers go about their business quantifying losses and raising tentative estimates. So far the marine underwriters at any rate are breathing sighs of relief. 

Bulk Handling Grabs & Grab Unloaders

  • CHINA DRIVES SALES

    01 Jan 2005

    With so much coal and iron ore nowadays going into China, it is not surprising to find that manufacturers of grabs and grab cranes are reporting buoyant sales. Indeed, as Alex Hughes reports, were it not for China, this market sector might currently be experiencing problems. 

Cargo Handling Paper Products

  • INNOVATION KEY TO SUCCESS

    01 Jan 2005

    Alex Hughes reports from two very different markets on innovations introduced in the handling of paper reels and associated forest products. 

Country Survey Uk Container Port Development

  • PORT BOSSES EXPRESS URGENCY

    01 Jan 2005

    There is an urgent need for more deepsea container port capacity in the UK. Port operators have expressed their fear that without substantial expansion the UK's major ports will run out of capacity within six years. According to Drewry Shipping, 99% of the UK's imports (in volume terms) enter by sea. Capacity constraints lead to well publicised congestion at peak times and loss of business to European ports. 

  • STRATEGY WHAT STRATEGY?

    01 Jan 2005

    The UK needs a properly thought through network of container terminals around its coast. Burgeoning trade and the need for fast, just-in-time delivery; road congestion and rising road transport costs (the Working Time Directive alone will add 20% to the cost of road haulage it is estimated); the need to reduce carbon emissions?. The UK presents an obvious case for modal shift to get more goods moving in and out of its regional ports and around the coast. But will it get the network it deserves? Nick Elliott reports. 

Dredging Environmental Imperatives

  • WATCH OUT FOR THE TURTLES

    01 Jan 2005

    Environmental concerns have become ever more prevalent in the capital and maintenance dredging business but should be seen as an opportunity and not simply as an impediment, as Alex Hughes discovers. 

  • RISING TO THE CHALLENGE

    01 Jan 2005

    An example of how the industry has risen to the challenge of environmental imperatives, is Jan de Nul's acquisition of soil and groundwater treatment specialist, Envisan. The company offers groundwater remediation, decontamination of polluted sites, construction and rehabilitation of landfills as well as sludge and sediment treatment. Starting with soil and groundwater treatment it gradually expanded into overall environmental technologies. 

Legal Eagle Terminal Concessions

  • MIND THE EXIT ARRANGEMENTS

    01 Jan 2005

    Exit arrangements from terminal concessions are not always high on the agenda when it comes to drawing up such agreements. Mark Lloyd-Williams, Partner at Norton Rose, suggests they are worthy of more attention as Mike Mundy reports. 

Manpower Training And Succession Planning

  • JUMPING FROM SHIP OR SHOP FLOOR

    01 Jan 2005

    When reviewing recruitment and training for PS in September 2003 there were still organisations that expected to dip into a pool of management experience and talent and be able to employ what they wanted when they needed it. Steve Cameron reports on how things are changing and what needs to be done to manage those changes. 

News Americas

  • BUENAVENTURA TO INVEST $37.5M

    01 Jan 2005

     

  • PUERTO RICANS TO DESIGN LAS AMERICAS PORT

    01 Jan 2005

    Puerto Rican company Vasquez y Asociados has been awarded the contract to design the initial phase of the island's Las Americas port project which has been costed at US$700m. 

  • Santos needs $1bn to ease bottlenecks

    01 Jan 2005

    According to Brazil's Votorantim Financeira bank, upgrading the port of Santos to a position where there are no longer any major bottlenecks would cost in the region of US$1 billion. 

  • ..and stranded Filipino seafarers

    01 Jan 2005

    Long Beach Board of Harbour Commissioners voted to contribute US$5,000 to the International Seafarers Center's Stranded Seafarers Fund to help 16 stranded Filipino seamen. Their vessel, the bulk carrier KATERINA, was seized in September in a health and safety investigation while calling at the California United Terminals facility in Long Beach. 

  • WAL-MART CHOOSES MANZANILLO

    01 Jan 2005

     

  • Long Beach helps small businesses?

    01 Jan 2005

    Long Beach is launching a major business outreach programme that will provide millions of dollars in contract opportunities to thousands of Southern California small businesses. 

  • FCAB BUYS INTO ATI

    01 Jan 2005

     

News Asia, Australasia, Africa & Middle East

News Europe

  • NEW PORT FOR PANAMA

    01 Jan 2005

    The Panamanian government is due to issue a tender in 2005 for a mega-port at the Pacific mouth of the Panama Canal costing US$600m. 

  • DVB Bank finances port projects in Finland and Russia

    01 Jan 2005

    DVB Bank has closed a €71m investment project with new Irish port operator, Multi-Link Terminals Ltd (MLT). The transaction relates to MLT's container terminal operations in Helsinki and Kotka in Finland and Litke Bay on Kotlin Island near St Petersburg. The current capacity of the Helsinki container terminal is 230,000TEUs per year. Kotka has only recently commenced operations, while the capacity of the Litke Bay terminal is 75,000TEUs per year. 

  • Rotterdam

    01 Jan 2005

     

  • CADIZ BAY TO INVEST €91M

    01 Jan 2005

    Cadiz is investing €91m in infrastructure upgrades during the period 20032008. 

  • ALGECIRAS AND TANGIER NOT COMPLEMENTARY

    01 Jan 2005

     

  • Genoa's port masterplan

    01 Jan 2005

    €4 billion port masterplan will be revised to incorporate leading architect Renzo Piano's "Fresco of the Port of Genoa" concept. The Fresco is revolutionary in that it would transform the entire 20 kilometre coastline, from Voltri to the Fiera Exhibition Area. 

  • Liscont to be moved to Santa Apolonia

    01 Jan 2005

    Lisbon Port Authority (APL) has communicated to its leading deepsea container terminal Liscont that it would like it to vacate its current concession in the Alcantara zone and move to an entirely new site at Santa Apolonia. To build the proposed new terminal would cost an estimated €200m, although work is not scheduled to start for at least two or three years. In the meantime, Liscont is investing €11.5m in its existing site as a means of boosting capacity. 

  • Marseilles polls workers over plans

    01 Jan 2005

    Marseilles-Fos handled 94m tonnes of cargo in 2004, a 1.6% drop on the previous year's but container throughput rose 10% to 916,600TEUs. The total included 593,600TEUs at Fos and 323,000TEUs at Marseilles. 

  • New port for the Greater Dublin

    01 Jan 2005

    The Drogheda Port Company (DPC) has announce its long term development strategy. 

  • Official opening

    01 Jan 2005

     

  • Rotterdam's new boss applauds results

    01 Jan 2005

    Rotterdam broke through the 350m ton barrier in 2004. 

News Focus The Indian Ocean

  • TSUNAMI SPARES PORTS

    01 Jan 2005

    The shocking death toll resulting from the Indian Ocean tsunami has stunned the world by its sheer scale. Yet despite the damage wreaked on homes and hotels, the port and shipping industries, which initially looked as if they would take the brunt of it, remained surprisingly unscathed by the disaster. Gavin van Marle reports. 

News Products & Systems

  • Trelleborg rides the wave

    01 Jan 2005

    Full order books and strong demand are being fuelled by the boost in global shipping says Trelleborg Fenders, and sales are growing in untapped markets such as the Middle East and Japan, and are in fact increasing more than in the traditional Trelleborg strongholds. Lately, Trelleborg has assisted Malayan Flour Mills in upgrading its berth in Lumut in Malaysia. 

  • Liebherr's successful year

    01 Jan 2005

    Entreprise Portuaire de Skikda, Algeria, Hawaii Stevedores, TM International Logistics Limited, India and Cardinal Logistics, India were amongst newcomers to Liebherr's order book last year. The company highlights the contract with TM International Logistics as historic as it opened up the Indian market and led to seven consecutive orders for Liebherr harbour mobile cranes by Indian customers within a couple of months. 

  • VDL ACQUIRES SMITS SPREADERS

    01 Jan 2005

    VDL Groep of Eindhoven has taken over Smits Spreader Systems of Someren. Besides standard spreaders and rotators, Smits also develops and produces customised spreaders for specific types of handling. VDL Containersystemen develops, manufactures and markets systems for loading and unloading containers on/from lorries. 

  • TIDEWORKS' NEW BABY SCORES IN WALES

    01 Jan 2005

    Associated British Ports (ABP) has selected Tideworks Netherlands, formerly Sonu Software Solutions to deploy a terminal operating system for its timber operations and warehousing requirements. Forest products can now arrive with a unique unit specification with known articles established in the article files of the system. 

  • NORCONTROL IT AIS SOFTWARE FOR EAST MALAYSIA

    01 Jan 2005

    Norcontrol IT will supply the shore-based software infrastructure for the first AIS Network for East Malaysia. 

  • Embarcadero launches auto application

    01 Jan 2005

    Embarcadero Systems Corporation (ESC) has released VinTelligent 3.0, a web-based application designed to optimize automobile handling throughout the entire supply chain. VinTelligent introduces the Port Processor module that manages the job planning and tracking of finished vehicle up-fitting.This new capability allows port processors to set up processing jobs at the vehicle terminal such as the installation of radios, trim packages, or sun roofs, before the vehicle is delivered to the dealer. 

  • The Green Machine

    01 Jan 2005

    Kalmar has introduced the first all-electric RTG, the E-One. With the existing emission- and noise-free Kalmar Zero-Emission RTG and now the new E-One, Kalmar says it is not only able to meet the latest environmental demands but also the requirements for operational productivity and life-time cost efficiency. E-One is without the need for hydraulics and is suited to any operation around the world. 

  • Gottwald reports record year

    01 Jan 2005

    Gottwald Port Technology sold a record 66 cranes last year. 

  • Haskoning name dropping

    01 Jan 2005

    Posford Haskoning will henceforth be known as Royal Haskoning. Posford Haskoning was adopted as a means of introducing the Haskoning name to the UK market three years ago and the job is now done, says the company. 

  • KCI KONECRANES ACQUIRES MORRIS MATERIAL HANDLING

    01 Jan 2005

    KCI Konecranes has acquired Morris Material Handling Ltd (MMH) of the UK. MMH's product range covers electric overhead travelling cranes, monorail and chain hoists and crane maintenance services. For the financial year that ended June 2004, MMH had sales of £25m. 

  • MED

    01 Jan 2005

    McMurdo has received MED (Marine Equipment Directive) approval on its M-2 Automatic Identification System (AIS). 

News Safety & Security

  • Reassess your insurance cover says TT Club

    01 Jan 2005

    Too many transport operators, from NVOCCs and logistics providers to terminal facilities, are worryingly uninformed about the extent of their insurance cover, the TT Club has warned. 

  • NEW YORK'S SPEND ROCKETS

    01 Jan 2005

    New York Port Authority Board of Commissioners has approved a US$4.5 billion 2005 budget that upgrades security at its airports, bridges, tunnels, seaports and rail system. The port has seen its costs for security rise dramatically since September 11, 2001. 

  • PROES AND MUSC JOIN FORCES

    01 Jan 2005

     

  • GHANA TO SCAN ALL CONTAINERS

    01 Jan 2005

    All containers entering Ghana are to be scanned. 

  • P&O Nedlloyd to charge

    01 Jan 2005

    In order to meet costs incurred to comply with the requirements of the ISPS code, P&O Nedlloyd has announced the introduction of a global "carrier security charge" of US$6 per container with effect from January 2005. In addition, Origin and Destination Terminal Security Charges will be passed on separately as and when they are applied to P&O Nedlloyd by terminal operators/port authorities. 

Port Focus Port Klang

  • NOT A PORT TO OMIT

    01 Jan 2005

    The good news is that Malaysia's premier port, Port Klang, situated on the country's west coast midway along the Straits of Malacca, was not badly affected by the recent tsunami that caused so much devastation in the region, reports Gavin van Marle. 

The Economist

Trade Review Vegetable Oil & Oilseeds

  • GREATER PREDICTABILITY EQUALS REDUCED DEMAND FOR STORAGE

    01 Jan 2005

    Ronald Okker, md for Vopak's Vlaardingen facility, told PS the applications for palm oil or vegoils in general, have grown significantly in recent years. "Apart from the food industry there is the feed industry and oleochemicals*. 

  • HOW ROTTERDAM DOES IT

    01 Jan 2005

    Over 50% of Rotterdam's incoming liquid cargoes consist of tropical oils such as palm and coconut oil. These, along with as soybean, rape and sunflower oil are partly transhipped directly onto inland vessels and partly stored by Vopak Vlaardingen, Koole Pernis, Maastank and Maassilo. 

  • FUELLED BY A HEALTH CONSCIOUS WORLD

    01 Jan 2005

    41.6m tonnes of bulk vegetable oils and fats was traded by sea in 2003 according to Oil World data reported by Intertanko. Nick Elliott looks at the principal commodities and trade flows and at the investments being made in terminal and storage facilities. 

Uk Container Port Development Country Survey

  • PRINCIPAL CONTAINER PORT PROJECTS

    01 Jan 2005

    LOCATION PROJECT STATUS THAMES Tilbury Container ABP/Forth Ports (FP)/P&O Ports' TCS recently installed second berth, new gantry cranes and railhead totalling £50m. 

Viewpoint

  • Cause and Effect, Control and Responsibility

    01 Jan 2005

    Cause and effect is a common method of organizing and discussing ideas so let's take a look at some cases relevant to this issue of PS. Mankind has always favoured coastal dwelling. The sea provided a rich harvest; and trade and communications were made easier. The sea has brought danger though and not just from storms. Ask any Greek islander why his village is on top of the highest hill on the island and you'll get a history lesson on marauding Goths, Saracens, Vandals and the like, sweeping in over the ages causing mayhem to those living by the sea. Much safer to be on the hill from where you could see the enemy coming and better defend yourself. 

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