News

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

California’s Port of Stockton has taken the plunge and will be deploying a Tideworks Technology terminal operating system (TOS) to manage its container on barge operation and improve overall efficiency.

16th May 2013

Automation for Stockton

16th May 2013

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Just who should be responsible for onboard lashing when ships are in port, asks Alex Hughes

15th May 2013

Bound together

15th May 2013

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

A heavy soup of responsibilities and liabilities mixes into todays vast port projects, insurance experts have warned.

9th May 2013

Bigger ships, bigger headaches

9th May 2013

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

There is a coups de théâtre being played out in Hong Kong. Hutchison’s Hongkong International Terminal has been an unwilling extra in a performance put on by its contracted dockers, who are…

2nd May 2013

Curtain call for Hong Kong drama

2nd May 2013

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

China Shipping Container Lines’ (CSCL) vessels, ‘CSCL Jupiter’ and ‘CSCL Mars’ have been verified according to the Clean Shipping Index.

2nd May 2013

CSCL vessels verified under Clean Shipping Index

2nd May 2013

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

About 160 representatives of 11 maritime unions from ten countries were this week told that future automation in the global port scene would come through negotiation and not imposition.

1st May 2013

Automation through negotiation, say unions

1st May 2013

MIDDLE EAST GREENPORT

MIDDLE EAST GREENPORT

Oil jetties are gates of commerce among different nations. However, they have been identified as old threats for the port environment due to their different potentialities for causing coastal pollution and risk.…

30th April 2013

Environmental Site Selection Studies for Oil Terminals

30th April 2013

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Resolution 3433, which was adopted by Argentinas Federal Administration of Public Revenue in March, has resulted in a hike in costs at the country’s ports.

30th April 2013

Buenos Aires losing transit cargo to Montevideo

30th April 2013

ASIA

ASIA

The latest large ship call at BNCT terminal in Busan’s New Port demonstrates the future abilities of South Korea’s container logistics industry, the operator says.

29th April 2013

BNCT expansion strategy

29th April 2013

ASIA

ASIA

Hutchinson Whampoa Limited (HWL) has strongly condemned the Kwai Tsing container terminal strikers for jeopardising the reputation of Hong Kong tourism after they harassed customers at the Harbour Grand Hong Kong hotel.

29th April 2013

HK strikes continue

29th April 2013

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The Port of Melbourne has announced that Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), Wallenius Wilhelmson Logistics (WWL) and Australian Amalgamated Terminals (AAT) have all been shortlisted as bidders to operate the new car terminal…

25th April 2013

Bid war for new Melbourne car terminal

25th April 2013

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

HFWs Anthony Woolich and Eliza Petritsi anticipate the arrival of Europes revised port policy legislation

25th April 2013

Addressing EU inconsistencies

25th April 2013

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Members of the European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) officially endorsed the Port of Antwerp as a new member at its latest meeting in Vlissingen in The Netherlands.

24th April 2013

Antwerp joins EFIP

24th April 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

APM Terminals is preparing to invest in high growth emerging markets such as Africa, Latin America and South and Southeast Asia, as industry projections reveal that capacity and congestion issues will boost…

24th April 2013

APMT prepares for high growth markets

24th April 2013

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

There is a growing consensus that a faster response to climate change is desperately needed. This is especially so when the science and physical impacts of global warming are telling us that…

23rd April 2013

Advance of climate laws increases urgency to regulate shipping emissions

23rd April 2013

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Environmental subsidiary of Jan De Nul, Envisan, has won an eco innovation award at the Belgian trade fair ECOnext recently.

23rd April 2013

Envisan wins eco award

23rd April 2013

EUROPE

EUROPE

Container terminal group, Grup TCB, has selected Orbita Ingenieria to automate the truck gates at its Barcelona Container Terminal (TCB) at the Port of Barcelona in a bid to boost capacity by…

19th April 2013

Grup TCB invests in Barcelona

19th April 2013

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The Australian state owned ports of Botany and Kembla have been privatised in a deal worth AUS$5.07bn, says the government of New South Wales (NSW).

17th April 2013

Botany and Kembla privatised

17th April 2013

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Germany subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies, RWO Marine Water Technology’s CleanBallast has received Alternate Management System (AMS) approval.

16th April 2013

AMS approval for RWO CleanBallast

16th April 2013

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Global freight company, Grup TCB, is to invest US$250m in the new TCQ terminal at Puerto Quetzal Port, located on the Pacific coast of Guatemala, which it will operate for the next…

15th April 2013

Grup TCB invests in Guatemalan terminal

15th April 2013