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News Australasia

  • Sydney seeks contractor for port expansion

    01 Oct 2006

    Sydney Ports Corporation has issued a call for a design and construction contractor to expand the port at Botany.    

  • Tough year for New Zealand port revenue

    01 Oct 2006

    A slowdown of the local economy has seen average recent financial returns slide from New Zealand’s three largest cargo-trading ports.    

  • PORT REVIEW STIRS UP INDUSTRY

    01 Oct 2006

    Rumours Maersk Line will reduce its New Zealand port calls from nine to five, including a “primary port” in each island, has got the entire local shipping industry on tenterhooks.  

  • FREMANTLE BOX BOOST

    01 Oct 2006

    The Western Australian port of Fremantle is to undertake a three-phase container terminal development.The initial phase will cost an estimated €1bn and allow up to 2m teu to be handled at the port, doubling the existing capacity.Work is scheduled for completion in 2015.  

  • NO TRUCK WITH RAIL DEAL

    01 Oct 2006

    An estimated 3,000 annual truck movements are expected to be taken from North Island roads following an agreement between Heinz Watties,Toll NZ and the Port of Napier.The contract involves the recommissioning of a rail siding at the producer’s Tomoana site and the introduction of dedicated fixed-rake wagons to move the export product through to the port.  

  • Deserters target Lyttleton

    01 Oct 2006

    More illegal ship deserters are entering Lyttelton Port of Christchurch than the rest of New Zealand’s ports put together. An estimated 105 ship deserters entered the country in the past financial year, of which 55 absconded through Lyttelton.  

  • Liebherr gets in ahead of schedule

    01 Oct 2006

     

  • New container berths up for grabs at Brisbane

    01 Oct 2006

    The Port of Brisbane is on the hunt for an operator to take on the management of two new container ports that will increase Brisbane’s container handling capacity by 25%. 
     

  • Sydney government opens door for third stevedore

    01 Oct 2006

    The traditional duopoly in Australia’s container terminals is to be broken after the New South Wales government announced that neither P&O Ports/DP World nor Toll/Patrick will get the concession to operate the planned third terminal at Port Botany.    

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