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ASIA

ASIA

About 25km to the north of Chennai, Ennore Port Ltd is to go out to tender for a 30-year BOT contract to build a brand new container terminal capable of accommodating vessels…

1st September 2004

Ennore touts for business

1st September 2004

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Alex Hughes weighs up the pros, cons and respective market niches of gantry and mobile harbour cranes and examines how each stack up against the continuous ship unloader.

1st July 2004

CUSTOMER CAN GET IT WRONG

1st July 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

The tender will combine BOT with concession contracts but is for all six terminals as a single contract and operators will not be able to bid for individual terminals. The tender closes…

1st July 2004

BARCELONA PLANS THIRD TERMINAL

1st July 2004

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Bunge and Cargill are seeking international partners to develop the new Maranhao Grain Terminal (Tegran) in Brazil in a project costed at $46m. The facility will be able to load soya at…

1st July 2004

BRAZIL GETS NEW SOYA FACILITY

1st July 2004

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

ICTSI, CMA CGM and International Maritime Associates of the US have been shortlisted for the 10-year contract to operate Beiruts $150m container terminal, three years after Dubai Ports Authority pulled out. The…

1st July 2004

BEIRUT MULLS BIDS

1st July 2004

ASIA

ASIA

CSXWT has purchased an additional 0.5% equity in Pusan Newport Company, the concession consortium for the development of the Pusan New Port project in Busan. The transaction brings CSXWTs shareholding in the…

1st July 2004

CSXWT increases stake in Pusan

1st July 2004

ASIA

ASIA

A key component is the construction of a new deepwater container transhipment terminal at Ballylongford, County Kerry, at an estimated cost of €250m, a terminal which is expected to capitalise on the…

1st July 2004

DALIAN SIGNS UP PARTNERS

1st July 2004

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Santos port authority, Codesp, is lobbying for the 50-berth Barnabe-Bagres project to go ahead, possibly in the form of a public-private partnership. The price tag is estimated at $654m of which just…

1st July 2004

Big plans move forward at Santos

1st July 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kalmar has received an order for six (plus three options) super post-Panamax STS container cranes from a consortium led by P& O Ports Antwerp for the new Antwerp Gateway terminal at the…

1st July 2004

Antwerp STS orders for Kalmar

1st July 2004

ASIA

ASIA

China Shipping initially deployed 5,500TEU vessels on its Far East-North Europe service which called solely at Valencia.India's Adani Group has chosen the small Belekeri jetty in northern Karnataka state rather than the…

1st July 2004

ADANI OPTS FOR SMALLER IRON ORE TERMINAL

1st July 2004

ASIA

ASIA

APL and Chiwan Container Terminal (CCT) have signed a 20-year agreement which will give APL additional efficiency and berth capability at the western Shenzhen port of Chiwan. CCT, in turn, will benefit…

1st July 2004

APL cuts new deals in China and India

1st July 2004

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

In an ingenious example of alternative technology, Liebherr has modified its deck cranes for use on the quay. The Fixed Cargo Crane (FCC) and Travelling Cargo Crane (TCC) concept is relatively new…

1st June 2004

AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION

1st June 2004

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Considering the huge container imbalances prevalent in most of the world' s trades and the consequent need to move empty boxes from place to place, it' s a wonder Empty Container Handlers…

1st June 2004

HIGHER AND HIGHER

1st June 2004

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Clark Equipment Australia (CEA), which manufactures the Omega range of locally produced reachstackers and other container handling equipment, reports strong growth in the Australian market with a distinct customer preference for higher-reaching…

1st June 2004

HIGHER AND HEAVIER DOWN UNDER

1st June 2004

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

It tends to be taken for granted that international port developers know what they are doing in the same way that a marksman knows how to set up a high powered rifle…

1st June 2004

BIG BIDS BUT BAFFLING LOGIC

1st June 2004

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

This month an independent inquiry will examine whether Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC) should be allowed to go ahead with the first major land expansion at its Botany Bay container port in 30…

1st June 2004

Botany Bays future under scrutiny

1st June 2004

ASIA

ASIA

BMT Asia Pacific has advised on the design of a new deep water container terminal at Sepangar Bay in Sabah. The study considered where the terminal needed to be located to minimise…

1st June 2004

BMT helps out in Malaysia

1st June 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

PC REMBRANDT, BMT's ship handling training and familiarisation software, was used to determine the wind and tidal conditions under which vessels will be able to enter and depart from the port with…

1st June 2004

H-PR appointed for Dover

1st June 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Up to the end of 2005, € 17m is being invested in the expansion of Hamburgs Hansaport bulk facility where coal and ore handling is booming.

1st June 2004

Hamburg invests in booming bulk

1st June 2004

ASIA

ASIA

APM Terminals, which currently holds a 12.5% stake in Indias first private port company, Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd (GPPL), is to assume management control of operations as part of a restructuring plan…

1st June 2004

APMT assumes control of Pipavav

1st June 2004