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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Fitting or removing twistlocks on containers, a slow and arduous operation action performed worldwide over a billion times a year, can now be done by an electro-hydraulic machine - the RAM PinSmart…

24th July 2008

Automation for old task

24th July 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Australias northernmost port outpost is gearing up for substantive growth. Iain MacIntyre finds out more

23rd July 2008

Darwin Port profile

23rd July 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Hong Kong and Shanghai have barely stopped for breath over the last 50 years, as Wing Kah-goh explains

23rd July 2008

Birth of the super-port

23rd July 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Turning 80 this July, Li Ka-shing has done more to revolutionise container terminals than just about anyone else. He has also been at the forefront of the fortunes of both Hong Kong…

23rd July 2008

An eastern man of port power

23rd July 2008

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

Port workers in 29 ports along the US West Coast (including approximately 20,000 in Los Angeles/ Long Beach) refused, at the start of July, to extend an earlier contract and are now…

23rd July 2008

Barry Parker – opinion submit July/Aug

23rd July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Software provider Total Soft Bank has won a bid to supply its Computer Automated Terminal Operation System to SP-PSA International Port in Vietnam.

22nd July 2008

Automated system for Vietnam port

22nd July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port Westland has been granted a one-year contract to manage the rundown port of Greymouth by the Grey District Council.

20th July 2008

Greymouth port lifeline

20th July 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

APM has more than doubled the quayside capacity of its Apapa Container Terminal, the largest container facility in Nigeria, with the installation of four more gantry cranes.

19th July 2008

Growth for Lagos

19th July 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Brazil is to extend until 2010 its so-called Reporto tax incentive to enable ports and terminals to purchase equipment, as well as modernising and expanding infrastructure.

19th July 2008

Brazil favours port investment

19th July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Electric-powered green cable reel rubber-tyred gantry cranes headed for the Baltic have had their emissions slashed by 95%.

18th July 2008

Baltic to be greener

18th July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Queensland ports bodies will get A$798.4m (US$769m) in the 2008/09 state transport budget.

17th July 2008

Budget nod for Queensland ports

17th July 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Demand for mobile harbour cranes for use in bulk handling has remained high in the first half of 2008. Felicity Landon reports

16th July 2008

Big is beautiful

16th July 2008

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

During the past 12 months, APM Terminals has opened major facilities atTangier in Morocco, at Portsmouth,Virginia, and at Guangzhou, at themouth of the Pearl River.

16th July 2008

APM Terminals

16th July 2008

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

Gulftainer continues to focus on the expansion and development of Khorfakkan (KCT) and Sharjah Container Terminal, as vital gateways into the United Arab Emirates - but it has clear ambitions to expand…

16th July 2008

Gulftainer

16th July 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

A new study commissioned by the World Bank digs deep into the problems and prospects for sub-Saharan African ports. Mike Mundy investigates

16th July 2008

Africa

16th July 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Ennore Port Trust is to put together a shortlist of six bidders from the 22 that originally made offers for the concession to build the $305m 1.5m teu container terminal at the…

15th July 2008

Ennore compiles shortlist

15th July 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

The construction of a new UK container terminal at Bathside Bay, Harwich is unlikely to start until at least the middle of the next decade, a seminar on port congestion has been…

11th July 2008

Bathside Bay not until mid next decade

11th July 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

A UK first has been made by the ABP Port of Southampton who has recently started to obtain its power through a combined heat-and-power-led district energy scheme, reducing the ports carbon dioxide…

10th July 2008

Green scheme for Southampton

10th July 2008

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Aspart of its expansion plans, Russias National Container Company hasordered 19 energy-efficient rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes from Konecranes, to meet ananticipated annual capacity of 9m teu.

9th July 2008

Energy capture to fuel Russian port

9th July 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Russian port of Varandey, located on the Barents Sea, is to be opened to international maritime traffic. This follows requests from the local authorities and from various institutions within the Russian…

27th June 2008

Barents Sea port goes international

27th June 2008