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ASIA

ASIA

The planned Davao Sasa Port modernisation project is set to be dropped by the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA).

19th December 2016

Davao port privatisation scrapped

19th December 2016

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

Nature Energy is set to join other corporations working on an advanced LNG liquefaction plant project at the Port of Frederikshavn.

19th December 2016

Danish LNG cooperation

19th December 2016

EUROPE

EUROPE

Despite objection from the UK port industry, the European Parliament has approved a new regulation on EU ports, with an aim to make them more efficient and attractive to investors, and make…

15th December 2016

European Parliament approves EU ports regulation

15th December 2016

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

The Hamburg Port Authority’s pilot emissions project with Kii, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) provider, is allowing the port authority to analyse its pollution output and tackle the source of any…

8th December 2016

Hamburg emissions pilot bears fruit

8th December 2016

EUROPE

EUROPE

HAROPA has completed the first French port Hackaton, Normandy French Tech, on the topic of the Seine Valley Smart Port which took place on 18-19 November.

7th December 2016

Haropa hackathon highlights innovation

7th December 2016

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

The Hamburg Port Authority’s pilot emissions project with Kii, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) provider, is allowing the port authority to analyse its pollution output and tackle the source of any…

7th December 2016

Hamburg emissions pilot bears fruit

7th December 2016

EUROPE

EUROPE

According to Informall’s Black Sea Container Market Review 9m 2016, Black Sea container terminals in Ukraine, Romania, Russia and Bulgaria handled just over 1.8m teu in the first nine months of 2016.…

6th December 2016

Black Sea container growth

6th December 2016

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Sabik Marine, part of Carmanah Technologies Corporation, has launched its next generation short to medium range self-contained lantern to the market.

5th December 2016

Energy efficient marine lanterns

5th December 2016

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Ports may have been slow on the uptake, but mobile apps are now on the agenda. Felicity Landon reports

5th December 2016

An App a day

5th December 2016

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

COMMENT: The port and shipping industry really do not have much to look forward to these days. Despite all the recent scrapping of ships of all types, there is still a surplus of…

5th December 2016

Another miserable year

5th December 2016

THE ANALYST

THE ANALYST

COMMENT: The Inland Terminal conference in Basel in November brought together an interesting mix of stakeholders in intermodal logistics. I shared with delegates some of the findings of research on intermodal connections,…

5th December 2016

Dealing in intermodal truths

5th December 2016

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Boushehr port’s Mansoureh Hasanzadeh and Seyed Navid Miremarati see the worth in Value Engineering

5th December 2016

Adding value

5th December 2016

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Steamy weather co-incided with steamy throughput for Virginia. Barry Parker reports

5th December 2016

Heating up

5th December 2016

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

The Port of Buenos Aires is planning to issue two tenders for new container terminals in the first few months of 2017 as a result of a major shake-up of the port’s…

5th December 2016

Buenos Aires to tender two box terminals

5th December 2016

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Long Beach has installed a 904.75kW Mitsubishi Electric photovoltaic (PV) system to contribute to its sustainable environment developments.

30th November 2016

Harnessing solar power

30th November 2016

EUROPE

EUROPE

Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has been chosen as the preferred bidder to buy a terminal in the Spanish Port of Algeciras.

25th November 2016

HMM preferred bidder for Hanjin’s Spain terminal

25th November 2016

AFRICA

AFRICA

Mozambique’s Beira is pitching to be the primary port of choice in Southern Africa.

18th November 2016

Beira lays out its ambitions

18th November 2016

ASIA

ASIA

The CEPU Port Authority (CPA) in the Philippines has been given the go ahead to proceed with its proposed P9.2bn new international container port in the Cebu province, according to the Cebu…

17th November 2016

Approval for Philippines mega port

17th November 2016

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Bremenports GmbH & Co. has been awarded the 2016 ESPO Award for its strategies in safeguarding and upgrading the nature and ecosystem in the port area.

10th November 2016

Bremenports wins ESPO award

10th November 2016

ASIA

ASIA

Malaysia’s deputy transport minister has confirmed that work on the RM8 billion Malacca Gateway project in Pulau Panjang will begin in 2017.

9th November 2016

Big hopes for Malacca Gateway

9th November 2016