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Kalmar tractors for St Petersburg
14 Jul 2008
The Russian National Container Company has ordered 19 TR618i (Icon series) tractors from Kalmar for two terminals in St Petersburg. The units are scheduled to be delivered by September 2008.
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UK Institute pushes port operations degrees
12 Jun 2008
The new Logistics Institute at the UK
University of Hull is to teach a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in logistics - with port operation a key area. -
Charity begins at home
10 Jul 2008
A community fund in Felixtowe has been launched with the backing of twelve local shipping and transport companies.
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Upgrade loan for Vyborg
29 Jul 2008
A multi-purpose port situated in the Gulf of Vyborg, about 113km from St Petersburg, will be helped in its €233m ($366m) modernisation by a €115m ($180.7m) loan from the European Bank of Reconstruction & Development.
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Maersk signs up with Felixstowe
10 Jul 2008
Maersk Line has signed a ten-year agreement with the Port of Felixstowe which will give the shipping line priority terminal usage.
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Spanish port for Dubai link
18 Jul 2008
Tarragona, near Barcelona, is to be the first of DP World's Spanish ports. DP World has acquired a 60% shareholding in Contarsa Sociedad de Estiba which holds the exclusive concession for the container terminal.
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Post-panamax at Helsinki
18 Jul 2008
Finland’s newest container facility, Vuosaari Port in Helsinki, will soon be able to hande post-panamax ships carrying up to 18 containers abreast with recently delivered Kalmar ship-to-shore cranes.
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Investment for Hull
02 Jul 2008
A new eight-year agreement for Hull Container Terminal includes a £4m investment by PD Ports to be used to implement IT systems, refurbish the existing ship-to-shore cranes and reconfigure the terminal layout to improve efficiency.
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Green scheme for Southampton
10 Jul 2008
A UK first has been made by the ABP Port of Southampton who has recently started to obtain its power through a combined heat-and-power-led district energy scheme, reducing the port’s carbon dioxide emissions by 30%.
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Collinson erects home for peat
31 Jul 2008
A new warehouse at the Port of Dublin has been erected for one of the world's largest peat producers, Bord na Mona.
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Dorset withdraws Portland objections
12 Jul 2008
Dorset County Council has withdrawn its objections to a major expansion at the south coast port of Portland, after the port agreed to contribute to the cost of local road improvements.
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Dibden Bay “safeguarded” for the future
13 Jul 2008
Dibden Bay will be “safeguarded” for future use within Southampton’s port masterplanning exercise, it has been revealed.
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Dryports to revolutionise efficiency in Europe
26 Jun 2008
A ground-breaking €4.8m ($7.5m) European project is to examine the role that “dryports” can play in maximising the capacity and efficiency of sea ports, while also shifting traffic off the roads and on to rail or inland waterways.
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Three in the frame for Salonika
06 Jul 2008
Salonika Port in Greece says that it will have addressed all objections raised as part of the bidding process in respect of privatisation of port handling by the end of July.
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Barcelona issues expansion tender for South Quay project
11 Jul 2008
Barcelona Port Authority has issued a tender for the extension of the South Quay, which will be incorporated into the concession of Barcelona Container Terminal (TCB).
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Tanger Med takes its toll
03 Jul 2008
The reach of Morocco's Tanger Med behemoth is already being felt across the Mediterranean, with Las Palmas Port reporting a drop in container throughput over the first quarter.
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Russia goes deeper
25 Jul 2008
A new deep water port is to be built at Karelian Belomorsk in Russia, 376 kilometres from Petrozavodsk.
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Latvia eyes Russian/Asian cargo
28 Jul 2008
Latvia's is set to carve out a role for itself as a transhipment and handling centre for containerised cargo to and from Russia, China, Korea and other Asian states, according to officials. To add further value, the country will provide additional logistics and transport infrastructure.
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Tallinn port strategy unveiled
14 Jul 2008
Estonia's Port of Tallinn has finalised a new strategy covering the period up to 2015, which focuses primarily on containers, for which it has capacity of up to 1.2m teu per annum. The port will also concentrate on new car traffic, which currently accounts for 300,000 units annually.
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Ukraine seeks more boxes
30 Jul 2008
Ukraine has announced its intention to develop container transport and is interested in speaking to any companies that can help implement this policy in a partnership agreement.
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Duisburg multimodal terminal
11 Jul 2008
Duisburg is to be the home of a new 35,000 sq m trimodal container terminal, part funded by South Africa's Imperial Group. Due to open in spring 2009, the terminal will be part of a new transportation link between the Upper Rhine ports and Duisburg, handling cargo which is not currently forwarded through Duisburg.
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UK's Bathside Bay delayed by "onerous" planning
11 Jul 2008
The construction of a new UK container terminal at Bathside Bay, Harwich is unlikely to start until at least the middle of the next decade, a seminar on port congestion has been told.
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