Bulk Handling – Page 6

  • News

    Multi-facing role of port authorities

    2018-11-06T15:41:00Z

    The term ‘port authority’ might not be fashionable today, but one supporter says there is still a clear part for them to play.

  • Bristol's David Brown delivers his safety message
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    Data sharing vital to advance port safety

    2018-11-05T11:55:00Z

    Ports must share safety data and incidences, The Bristol Port Company chief executive David Brown has urged.

  • News

    Tipping the emissions and power scale

    2018-11-01T11:52:00Z

    In the race to reduce emissions, greener ports must consider the resilience of their power supplies. Felicity Landon reports.

  • News

    Port authorities evolving identities

    2018-10-31T09:42:00Z

    Port authorities are evolving beyond their original, insular role to a more collaborative and facilitative one.

  • Shanghai Yangshan Port
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    US-China trade war to hit Hutchison profit

    2018-10-26T16:40:00Z

    Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) has said that current trade disputes, especially between the tariff-war engaged US and China will “adversely impact” its overall performance.

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    Ports urged to grasp ‘trusted broker’ role in data

    2018-10-22T13:01:00Z

    Ports must urgently embrace their role as ‘trusted broker’ to get real value from the mass of data available to them and their stakeholders.

  • Antwerp Port Authority has said it will work with the winning team to develop the tool Photo: Antwerp Port Authority
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    Hackathon winner solves ETA irregularities

    2018-10-16T12:16:00Z

    chainPORT Hackathon winner Rombit has made waves in Antwerp with its solution to optimise often-inaccurate ship arrival times.

  • Successful data-sharing is paramount to the future of the container terminal and shipping industry. Credit: falco/Pixabay/CC0
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    Port standardisation: cleared for take-off

    2018-10-01T15:02:00Z

    INFORM’s Matthew Wittemeier explains why ports can learn from mistakes made in the airport industry on setting data standards.

  • Charleston's ambassadors understand more about the challenges the port faces. Credit: SCPA
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    Speaking up for a port

    2018-10-01T15:01:00Z

    Felicity Landon reports on ''ambassador'' programmes, where well-informed, enthusiastic and influential people champion ports.

  • Banana
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    Drewry: Greenfield projects in decline

    2018-09-18T18:32:00Z

    There are relatively few greenfield projects currently in the ports sector compared to the past, despite there now being a larger market for them, Drewry has said.

  • DP World H1 2018 results
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    DP World warns of “uncertain” outlook

    2018-08-16T12:13:00Z

    DP World has warned that “geopolitical headwinds and changes to “trade policies” remain a threat to the maritime container market as it released its financial results for the first half of 2018.

  • Port of Shanghai
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    Trade wars unlikely to stop container growth

    2018-08-01T14:58:00Z

    Tariff and trade wars are a concern but the medium-term outlook for global container port demand growth is positive thanks to strong underlying economic momentum across the world’s major economies, according to Drewry.

  • Port of Southampton
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    135 teu millionaire ports

    2018-07-24T15:50:00Z

    In 2017, 135 ports handled more than 1m teu with these ports handling 84% of the estimated teu volume worldwide.

  • 24m teu is handled by 20 dominant transhipment ports across the world each year, according to Dynamar's report Photo: Noel Reynolds/flickr/CC BY 2.0
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    Unique analysis of transhipment ports

    2018-07-09T21:51:00Z

    A new report from transport information and consultancy services firm Dynamar has revealed that 24m teu is handled by 20 dominant transhipment ports across the world each year.

  • Cameron Bowie: “We like to see terminal operators engaging with all stakeholders — any that have a bearing on our ability to move through the port” Photo: rawpixel.com/Pexels/Pexels License
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    Leading shipper message to ports

    2018-07-09T21:51:00Z

    Terminal operators should “get to know” the partners involved in port selection, Hapag-Lloyd UK and Ireland managing director Cameron Bowie has advised.

  • There has been a 57% decrease in reportable accidents in BPA safety data that stretches back 17 years, but there has been a notable plateau in improvements over the past five to six years Photo: Oluwaseun Duncan/Pexels/Pexels License
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    Safety paramount to port industry leaders

    2018-07-09T21:51:00Z

    Key figures at the UK’s two biggest port associations have spoken out about the importance of safety.

  • "We will see new solutions, lower prices and faster progress for technology that can also be applied to our specialised field,” Kalmar's Mr Hämäläinen said Photo: Kalmar
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    Ports benefitting from IoT & autonomous cars

    2018-07-06T09:20:00Z

    The container port sector is benefitting from huge investments from start-ups and major technology businesses due to the enormous mass-market opportunity for technologies connected to the Internet of Things and autonomous cars — “a market … several orders of magnitude larger than the container shipping industry”.

  • Lamia Kerdjoudj Belkaid at TOC Europe
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    FEPORT: Logistics actors must work together

    2018-07-05T11:32:00Z

    Co-operation between logistics chain stakeholders is more crucial than ever, particularly with ships increasing in size and making demands of public infrastructure that cannot be constructed overnight, Federation of European Private Port Companies and Terminals (FEPORT) secretary general Lamia Kerdjoudj Belkaid has said.

  • Pictured: Andreas Mrozek
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    Port productivity gains lagging cargo growth

    2018-07-05T11:32:00Z

    Productivity improvement is behind growth in many network-critical terminals, with congestion a result of this, a presentation from Hamburg Süd’s global head of marine and terminal operations has claimed.

  • From left (standing): Peregrine Storrs-Fox and Luuk Speksnijder
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    Crystal ball-gazing for TT Club and McKinsey

    2018-07-05T11:32:00Z

    There is practically “a religious divide” among container industry leaders as to whether the fundamental driver of value in the sector for the next quarter of a century is going to be trade or the digital realm.