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Barcelona Area Survey

  • Hutch' for El Prat

    01 Jun 2006

    After a rigorous concessioning exercise Hutchison/Tercat have triumphed in Barcelona After a rigorous concessioning exercise Hutchison Ports in conjunction with Tercat, hitherto the Port of Barcelona's smaller container terminal operator, has been selected as the operator of the new container terminal facilities to be established at the El Prat Quay situated in the southern expansion zone adjacent to the airport. The facility, which is desperately needed to accommodate projected levels of future traffic growth, will cover an area of 930,000 sq m accessed via 1500m of linear quay with an alongside depth of 16.5m. 

Bevis Marks

  • Scale Returns

    01 Jun 2006

    Since last reporting, your columnist has been to Colombo, to take part in a Conference organized by Ceylon Association of Ship Agents (CASA) and to hear the news of this island which always seems to perching on the brink of something much better. The shipping industry in Sri Lanka is much concerned with the upturn of trouble in the north and the decision of war risk underwriters to consider the island as a whole an area of special concern. It is not only poets who are the unacknowledged legislators of the world-war risk underwriters have the ability to deem areas unsafe in the face of many local interests and political correctness. Indeed, after Yemen became an area subject to additional premium, it more or less eclipsed the ambitions of the new port ventures there. 

Canary Islands Area Survey

  • Building Transhipment

    01 Jun 2006

    The race is on in the Canary Islands to secure new container transhipment volumes. Alex Hughes reports 

Cargo Generation Uk Ports

  • Get it where you can

    01 Jun 2006

    Experience in the UK demonstrates that ports can pull significant business that never actually goes over their quays. Felicity Landon reports When is a port not a port? When it is a multimodal hub or a distribution centre? Or a reception, unpacking, repacking, storage, labelling and barcoding facility? While most of the traffic handled remains directly port-related, the strategic location of ports in the supply chain and the infrastructure they already have in place mean they are strongly placed to attract freight that doesn't necessarily arrive by vessel. 

Container Insight

  • Reliability Rating

    01 Jun 2006

    A new study from Drewry rates liner shipping reliability and thereby provides an insight into the implications of this for others in the cargo chain. Mike Mundy explains 

Heavy Duty Paving Marine Civil Engineering

  • Pavement performance revisited

    01 Jun 2006

    Nigel Nixon BSc, CEng, FICE, PE and Mark Smallbridge BSc, CEng, MICE, PE, two well known "names" in pavement design, put the case for roller compacted concrete pavement design in heavy duty applications 

International Terminal Operators

News

  • Career transitions: an agenda

    01 Jun 2006

    Steve Cameron* argues that the maritime employment market will benefit from greater facilitation of personnel movements between sectors 45Anyone who reads the maritime press on a regular basis will have heard the concerns voiced by employers that the maritime sector is not attracting sufficient numbers of high calibre people required to facilitate positive future development. 

News Americas

  • . . . and operators add equipment

    01 Jun 2006

    The main container terminals at the port of Santos intend to increase their productivity this year through the purchase of new cranes financed through tax breaks made available by the government. 

  • Santos develops huge expansion programme . . .

    01 Jun 2006

    Santos Port Authority (Codesp) is to develop a major new operating area at Barnabe Bagre as a public-private partnership in tandem with the Federal Government. This will expand this particular zone of the port to 6 million square metres incorporating no fewer than 50 berths. 

  • Cartagena seeking regional hub status

    01 Jun 2006

    The Colombian port of Cartagena handled 549,860TEU last year and is anticipating growth in 2006 of more than 150,000 additional containers. This is due to the arrival, in March, of a new Asia-Caribbean service operated by Maersk with 5,000TEU vessels. 

  • Savannah growth

    01 Jun 2006

    The Port of Savannah handled 173,415TEU in the month of April 2006, a 12.7 per cent increase over the same period last year. 

News Asia & Africa

  • APAPA BULK TERMINALS NOW IN PRIVATE HANDS

    01 Jun 2006

    Nigerian Flour Mills, which operates the Apapa Bulk Terminals 'A' and 'B', has spent ?24.5m on upgrading berths and other infrastructure awarded to it as part of the ports concession programme in Nigeria. These facilities are shortly to be linked to the Nigerian Railway network. 

  • DP World to invest $450m in Kochi

    01 Jun 2006

    DP World is expected to issue a tender for the design of a $450m container terminal in the Indian port of Kochi, which is located in the southern state of Kerala. 

  • SHIPPER ACTION

    01 Jun 2006

     

  • Feeder surcharge at Chittagong

    01 Jun 2006

    Feeder vessel operators are threatening to slap a $130 surcharge on each TEU that they have to handle at the port of Chittagong unless congestion there decreases within the next month. At present, feeder lines such as QC Container, HRC Shipping, Orient Express, Advanced Container and Sea Consortium charge $300 to transport each TEU between Singapore and Chittagong. This journey takes four days, but vessel operators are currently then faced with a further seven days spent in the port. 

  • ZAMBIA TO GET NAMIBIAN DRY PORT

    01 Jun 2006

     

  • DAR CALL

    01 Jun 2006

     

  • Chinese container clusters planned

    01 Jun 2006

    The Chinese Communications Minister Li Shenglin has revealed the government has a policy aimed at creating two new port 'clusters' to add to the three existing ones centred on Shanghai, Shenzhen and Tianjin. 

News Asia & Middle East

  • India earmarks $10bn of investment

    01 Jun 2006

    In the next six years, India plans to invest $10 billion in upgrading port facilities to meet the demands of its growing economy. The country's 12 largest ports, which account for 75% of all trade, will source much of the investment abroad. 

  • PICT boosting capacity

    01 Jun 2006

    The Phase 2 development of Karachi's Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT) is due for completion by the end of June. 

  • ASHDOD STRIKES PUT OFF USERS

    01 Jun 2006

    Despite having signed contract agreements to the contrary, employees at Israel's port of Ashdod have come out on strike twice so far this year. 

  • Gwadar seaport to open in June

    01 Jun 2006

     

  • ..BOT BOX SCHEME

    01 Jun 2006

    Qasim has also issued a call for expressions of interest to build a second container terminal on a BOT basis. 

  • PSA BOND ISSUE

    01 Jun 2006

    Part of the Port of Singapore Authority's recent purchase of a stake in Hutchison Ports (see International Terminal Operator story this issue) is to be financed by an offshore bond. 

  • QASIM DREDGE AND..

    01 Jun 2006

     

  • Mumbai saga rolls on

    01 Jun 2006

    The bid process for the Mumbai offshore container terminal continues to be extended much to the irritation of the port trust and a number of the bidders. 

  • IPA COMMUNITY SYSTEM

    01 Jun 2006

    The Indian Ports Association is backing the development of a centralised Web-based Port Community System. 

  • PRIVATISED ISRAELI PORTS FIRST ANNIVERSARY

    01 Jun 2006

     

  • COLOMBO BREAKS RECORD

    01 Jun 2006

    In March this year, the Sri Lankan port of Colombo posted a new monthly record of 245,024TEU handled. 

  • MOMBASA REFURBISH

    01 Jun 2006

     

News Europe

  • BCT ACQUIRES MHCS

    01 Jun 2006

    Poland's Baltic Container Terminal, which is operated by ICTSI, has placed an order with Kalmar for four mobile harbour cranes. 

  • Port 2000 development now partially operational

    01 Jun 2006

    At the beginning of April, Le Havre Port Authority inaugurated part of its planned Port 2000 development, which has cost €700m. This has 1.4km of quay line out of a possible future development encompassing four kilometres of berth. 

  • I.T. HEADACHE

    01 Jun 2006

     

News Products & Services

  • Factory opens and..

    01 Jun 2006

    On 12 May, in an official opening ceremony, the Liebherr Group opened its new works in Rostock for maritime cargo handling equipment. The LiebherrMCCtec Rostock GmbH production plant, erected on a site measuring 226,000 square metres in the port of Rostock, includes two production halls and an administration block together occupying a total of some 56,000 sq m. 

  • Stub dark dealings

    01 Jun 2006

    The following interesting "ditty" was highlighted in the TT Club's newsletter - it adds a new dimension to air travel! 

  • KONECRANES INC SHARE PURCHASE

    01 Jun 2006

    HMM Acquisition Corp. , a wholly owned Konecranes Inc. subsidiary, has increased its shareholding from 59.2% to 74.5% in MMH Holdings, Inc. , the owner of US based Morris Materials Handling, Inc. 

  • Triplock Tracking Technology

    01 Jun 2006

    Using the latest wireless telematics technology, the Overseas Shippers Association (OSA) is taking part in trials to track containers using a device called TripLock. TripLock is supplied by Aeromark, a UK based telematics company, and has the ability to position a container anywhere within the mobile phone network and send notification to the shipper if anyone tampers with the container door. 

  • ..Bega signs-up

    01 Jun 2006

    During the official opening ceremony for the new Liebherr factory, BEGA Baltic Stevedoring company signed a contract with the company for a crane to handle bulk commodities at its terminals in Klaipeda. 

  • Lyttelton Port pioneers SPARCS N4

    01 Jun 2006

    New Zealand's Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has become the first port in the world to go live with the new Navis container management system SPARCS N4. 

  • PACECO-MES FLEXES MUSCLE IN THE USA

    01 Jun 2006

    Paceco-MES has signed a contract with TraPac, Inc. (USA) for the supply of new super post-Panamax quayside cranes and RTGs destined for service in various terminals in the US. 

  • VTS confirmed for Saudi

    01 Jun 2006

    Kongsberg Norcontrol IT and its partner, National Advanced Systems Company (NASCO), have won a contract to supply Vessel Traffic Service (VTS), AIS Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) and high performance radar systems for eight ports in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 

Nigeria Emerging Nations

Post Script

  • Thud, Thud, Thud

    01 Jun 2006

    What goes thud, thud, thud? Sound of a small container vessel skating along a quayside in an erratic departure? 

Reach Stackers Container Handling

  • Reach stackers: six big questions

    01 Jun 2006

    Steve Cameron put six critical questions to reach stacker producers and users. The answers supplied offer major assistance to identifying the right machine at the right price 

Supply Chain Strategy Cargo Generation

  • Paper Mate

    01 Jun 2006

    The deployment of supply chain expertise in the set-up and operation of the Port of Tilbury's Enterprise Distribution Centre has proved a decisive factor in its success 

Teesport Cargo Generation

  • Mobile power

    01 Jun 2006

    The addition of a new bespoke design mobile has significantly enhanced steel slab handling operations at Tees Port 

The Economist

  • What do you know about hard numbers?

    01 Jun 2006

    One of the interesting facts about our maritime industry, comprising not only the carriers and the hinterland transportation providers, but also the ports and terminals is that no one really has any reliable hard numbers about what is going on. Strange, isn't it? 

Viewpoint

  • Question Time

    01 Jun 2006

    The UK Ports Policy Review Roadshow rolled into London on 25 May and was the focus of some serious attention as well as merriment by industry participants and analysts alike. 

Motorship