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    Contenemar move

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Spanish shipping line Contenemar will move its Canary Islands and Moroccan services from Vigo to a new 44,000 sq metre container terminal at the nearby port of Vilagarcía at the end of this year. The terminal, which will be located on Ferrazo Quay, will have 260 metres of quayside with ...

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    Boluda La Luz investment

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Boluda group has ordered two super-post-panamax gantry cranes from Paceco at a cost of € 10m ($13.5m). These will be deployed at its recently acquired La Luz container terminal on the Canary island of Las Palmas in February and March of 2008. Outreach will be over 19 rows of ...

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    Changing of the guards at Kalmar

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Port equipment specialist Kalmar has appointed Pekka Vauramo to take its president’ s chair on October 1 2007, after present incumbent Christer Granskog retires. 

  • Malta plans to lift productivity with new cranes
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    Konecranes receives order from Malta Freeport Terminals

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Malta Freeport has contracted Konecranes for 10 rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes,two reachstackers and one masted lift truck to be delivered between December 2007 and April 2008. 

  • Eve Trakway's temporary panels take the strain at Portland
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    Strengthening solutions for MSC Napoli recovery

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The UK’ s Portland Port has had its quays strengthened in order to move the stranded cargo of the MSC Napoli to a secure area. 

  • Marseilles positions itself for future box boom
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    Marseilles steams ahead with expansion drive

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Port of Marseilles Authority (PMA) is to develop two more new container terminals at Fos with a combined capacity of 2m teu per year. 

  • Tacoma (pictured), Seattle and Vancouver take on emissions challenge
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    Pacific Northwest pact

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The US ports of Seattle and Tacoma and Canada’ s Vancouver have jointly pledged to reduce particulate matter from ships at berth by 70% and from cargo handling equipment by 30% by 2010 in a Pacific Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy. 

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    GIP buys into Indian dream

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Private equity fund Global Infrastructure Partners has bought a 25% interest in Chennai Container Terminal (CCT), India’ s second largest private container terminal in India overall by traffic volume.

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    Concession extension at San Vicente

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Chile’ s San Vicente port operator SVTI has had its concession extended until 2029. 

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    Buenaventura concession extended

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Colombian government has extended the concession to operate the port of Buenaventura conditional on investment of $54m being made by March 2008. In addition, incumbent SPRBUN must present a territorial reorganisation plan within two months.

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    : Quayside lift for Callao

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Peruvian National Port Authority has given permission for tenders to be issued in respect of the purchase of four new cranes for the port of Callao. Contracts for two quayside gantry cranes and two yard cranes worth $33.97m are expected to be signed in August.

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    ANP approves dry port

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Uruguay' s National Ports Authority is to offer a concession to operate a dry port to serve the capital to be operational in 2008. 

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    Maersk loss hits Ensenada

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Mexican port of Ensenada registered a 4% drop in container traffic during the first four months of this year. This is the first time for at least 12 months that the port has registered a downturn, which is due to changes in Maersk' s Asian services; these no longer ...

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    Cabello loses regional control

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Venezuelan port of Cabello has been nationalised. Previously, the port was managed locally by the Instituto Puerto Autónomo de Puerto Cabello (IPAPC). The move is viewed negatively by municipal and regional governments, which may freeze planned investment in facilities.

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    Nova Scotia terminal

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Several North American investors have put forward a project to build a new container terminal in Canso Straits, Nova Scotia. They plan to invest $300m in a 485,000 sq metre area, which will be managed by SSA Marine.

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    HPH woos Mexican hauliers

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    HPH, Mexico' s largest container terminal operator, is negotiating a strategic alliance with road haulage companies to improve its door-to-door service for customers.

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    Shadow cast on Punta Colonet project

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Proposed expansions at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach could threaten the planned development of a new mega-port at Punta Colonet in Mexico' s Baja Californian region.

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    Talcahuano remedial need

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Chilean port of Talcahuano requires infrastructure and dredging rehabilitation work or risks closure within two years. A single port operator is expected to be appointed, with all contracts placed by the first quarter of 2008.

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    SSA invests in Tacoma

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    SSA Marine is to invest $300m in a new container terminal at East Blair Waterway in the port of Tacoma. 

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    Bolivian border port

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Bolivian government is to build a port terminal at Puerto Quijarro on the border with Brazil at a cost of $25.6m. This will enable Bolivian soya to access coastal ports via the Paraguay-Paraná inland waterway network.