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EUROPE

EUROPE

HHLA has followed the lead of other major European stevedoring companies in reducing working hours, affecting 2,000 employees. The decision is the direct result of the deteriorating economic environment. Both Eurogate and…

27th August 2009

HHLA cuts workers hours

27th August 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

PD Ports has completed the first phase of an expansion programme to develop its existing container terminal handling facilities at Teesport, UK.

24th August 2009

Growth planned at Teesport

24th August 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Throughput at the Port of Hamburg remains stunted, but hopes are that second half figures will reflect a stablisation and the start of recovery.

23rd August 2009

Hamburg levels still subdued

23rd August 2009

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

HFWs Connie Chen discusses restructuring port investments in the current economic climate

17th August 2009

Evaluating the options

17th August 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Bangladeshs Shipping Ministrys parliamentary standing committee has set up a sub-committee to investigate alleged corruption and irregularities regarding the contract awarded for container handling at the port of Chittagong. The decision was…

3rd August 2009

Bangladesh looks at ports corruption

3rd August 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Spreader specialist Bromma has developed green specification guidelines to aid port planners.

29th July 2009

Brommas green specs

29th July 2009

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Port operators should take heed of energy-guzzling space race pioneers, as Stuart Pearcey explains

27th July 2009

Energy: We must do more with less

27th July 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The Port of Muuga on the Gulf of Finland south coast is seeing what could be, said Danish contractor Per Aarsleff, the largest ever combination steel-pile retaining wall ever built.

27th July 2009

Biggest ever combiwall?

27th July 2009

AFRICA

AFRICA

The Angolan Transport Minister, Augusto Tomá s, has announced a radical reform of the Merchant Marine and ports sector as a means of restructuring and modernising them. Management is to be improved…

26th July 2009

Angola restructures ports

26th July 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Brazilian government has suspended proposed port fee hikes for this year; instead, existing 2008 rates will apply until the end of the year. It justified the move by citing the need…

19th July 2009

Brazil cancels hike in port fees

19th July 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Australian ports investor Asciano is looking to the market to raise A$2bn (US$1.6bn) in order to reduce a debt burden estimated at A$4.9bn (US$3.9bn). The company examined a range of sale and…

15th July 2009

Asciano heads to the market

15th July 2009

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Ashdod Port Company Ltd has written to the Israeli government to state that no new container handling facilities need building in the port for at least 15 years.

15th July 2009

Ashdod port says no to new container capacity

15th July 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The part of Babcock & Brown that, among other interests, owns ICS Logistics, a leading operator of break bulk sea ports in Florida, Louisiana and Alabama, may have found a way out…

14th July 2009

B&B fund finds new identity

14th July 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Limited capacity at Saigon port in Vietnam has led to unprecedented congestion of break bulk consignments. A maximum of 25 vessels can access berths at any one time and in recent months…

12th July 2009

Break bulk cargo crippling Saigon

12th July 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Bidders interested in building and operating the South Harbour at the Sri Lankan port of Colombo have been given a deadline extension until July 15, to compensate for changes that were introduced…

11th July 2009

Deadline extension for Colombo South Harbour

11th July 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Apiece of kit that could result in increased sailing windows atcongested bulk ports is a new take on the humble mooring system, andAustralias Port of Hedland has been quick off the mark…

10th July 2009

Auto mooring to aid bulk congestion

10th July 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

As guardian of the land/sea interface, Melbourne takes its role in maritime trade seriously. Iain MacIntyre reports

8th July 2009

Australasian feature — Port Melbourne Profile

8th July 2009

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

It usually takes an oil spill, collision or, lately, a pirateattack, for maritime stories to make the front pages of newspaper, orthe top of the hour on prime time TV news.

8th July 2009

Barry Parker Opinion submission May 5 2009

8th July 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

After almost two decades of intense scrutiny of the performance of its container terminals, Australia is turning in new directions - to the landside links in the logistics chain, and to measurement…

2nd July 2009

Australian landside links under the microscope

2nd July 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

International port operating expert APM Terminals tells Ben Hackett you should have a plan and stick to it

26th June 2009

APM Terminals finding the formula for success

26th June 2009