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Varna to build box terminal
The Bulgarian port of Varna is to build a new container terminal through a joint venture including municipal authorities in Varna. Private sector involvement in the ¢ 90m ($130.6m) will be restricted to 30%. Work is scheduled to start at the end of this year.
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NewsFrench now open to privatisation
The French government has introduced a ports reform programme, which will allow the privatisation of cargo handling at ports.
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NewsFelixstowe
Two ship-to-shore gantry cranes at Felixstowe''s Landguard Terminal ended up in a mangled heap on the quayside at the weekend after a ship delivering three new ship-to-shore cranes to the port broke loose from its moorings in high winds and crashed into them.
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EIB funds Rotterdam expansion
The European Investment Bank has granted a ¢ 900m ($1.3bn) loan to the Port of Rotterdam to finance infrastructure expansion. The financing contract for the first ¢ 100m ($145m) has already been signed.
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Euromax on autopilot
Netherlands-based software provider TBA has successfully concluded the first phase of testing of Euromax terminal''s automated cargo handling equipment fleet. After the trial, TBA''s automated fleet management system TEAMS was able to remotely control the movement of the Euromax fleet of twenty-eight Automated Guided Vehicles.
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Tideworks take on BCT
Poland''s Baltic Container Terminal has upgraded its terminal operating system to improve efficiency. The new Tideworks System replaces BCT''s old system, which was installed in the late 1990s.
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NewsCMP on a roll
Lars Karlsson, managing director of Copenhagen Malmö Port, believes "the sky''s the limit" at his port, but acknowledges that capacity constraints remain a hurdle.
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In the Ukraine the largest and deepest bulk terminal is TIS (TransInvestService Ltd), on the Black Sea 40km south of Odessa. Already equipped with dedicated terminals for ore, coal, grain and fertilisers, the port authority is hard at work creating a container terminal with a capacity of 1.5m teu, which ...
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NewsRussia/En Europe
Russia is waking up to the massive trade potential beyond its closest European neighbours. Stuart Pearcey reports
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Although it''s easy to think of Russia and Eastern Europe seeking to trade with ''the west'', such a figurative notion overlooks the geographic fact that it''s also a Pacific country, and therefore equally-well placed to trade with the east.
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Tarragona ups box area
The port of Tarragona is to increase its container handling area from 80,000 sq m to 320,000 sq m, on the back of an increase in throughput in 2007 from 34,200 teu to 50,000 teu.
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NewsLiverpool boosts logistics capacity
Port of Liverpool owner Peel Ports has submitted plans for the construction of more than 400,000 sq ft of warehousing to boost the port's logistics capacity.
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Ukraine terminal beast
Ukraine''s Privat Group has finalised plans for the country''s largest independent private container terminal, International Container Terminal Peresyp. Covering 62 ha and with 1,300 metres of quay wall, construction of the terminal - sited next to Odessa port territory - is slated for 2011 completion.
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New Santander bulk terminal
Dragados-SPL has begun the final phase construction work at its new ¢ 50m ($74.3m) dry bulk terminal in the port of Santander. Start-up traffic this year is expected to be 1.5m tonnes, rising to 2m tonnes from 2009.
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Putting wind in Tilbury's sails
The UK''s Port of Tilbury is seeking to harness wind power in a bid to cut carbon emissions and power consumption. It has submitted a planning application to Thurrock Council for the development of its own wind farm, initially for four wind turbines.
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NewsSt Petersburg bows to dockers demands
Russian billionaire Vladimir Lisin has agreed to pay port workers at St Petersburg Seaport salary increases of between 10% and 51% as from February 1.
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Russian dockers demand salary hikes
A strike by dock workers in late 2007 effectively paralysed operations at the Russian port of Tuapse for three days, with dockers eventually ordered back to work following a court ruling.
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Northern neighbours foster relationship
Germany''s Eurogate and Russia''s National Container Company (NCC) have forged a North-European alliance to improve prospects for their respective container terminals in Ust-Luga and Wilhelmshaven.
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Marseilles incentives to woo lines
Marseilles-Fos is offering reduced 2008 port dues to container lines that push increased volumes through the French port.
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Russians invest in Finland
Russian transport company Severstraltrans has bought a 50% stake in Finnish container terminal operator Multi-Link Terminals and Container Depot from Finland''s Container Finance Group.
