Latest News – Page 1179
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Felixstowe on track
Freightliner Limited and GB Railfreight have launched new services from Felixstowe''s North Rail Terminal.
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Santos inland access improvement
Permission to seek tenders has been granted for Santos to improve its land access with a $278m project to segregate rail and highway traffic into the port, as well as divert heavy vehicles away from municipalities. Santos is responsible for 26.7% of all Brazilian exports and 25.5% of imports, making ...
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Concor opens in Calcutta
Indian Railways'' owned Container Corporation of India (Concor) is to open a new intermodal terminal at Calcutta Port''s Kidderpore Dock. This will occupy a 30-acre site and handle 26,000TEUs in its first year of operation.
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NewsMARKETING YOUR PORT
Bill Oakes tackles the fundamental issue of how to market and promote a port with emphasis on the individual and combined roles of each member of the port community.
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NewsAden: DON'T WRITE IT OFF
Paul Grant reports from Aden that despite the consequences flowing from two devastating maritime terrorist attacks, and now the withdrawal of PSA Corp from its Aden Container Terminal joint venture, the port is fighting back.
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Two BOT projects for North Africa
In 2002 Africa is estimated to have accounted for just 3% of world container port throughput, equivalent to 8.1mTEUs out of a near 273mTEUs globally.
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NewsSTRUGGLING TO EMERGE FROM THE SANDS OF TIME
North Africa''s ports need to be unleashed from the constraints imposed by politics and bureaucracy, reports Gordon Feller
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EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
Terrorist attack, human error, the weather - whatever the cause, oil pollution is a messy business. Last month, seven and a half years after the SEA EMPRESS grounded in Milford Haven''s approaches spilling 72,000 tonnes of crude into the sea and onto the shore, the port authority finally settled the ...
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NewsAre Ports prepared for compliance?
The TT Club' s Andrew Webster says the ISPS Code is one of the most important developments for the port industry By July next year all port facility operators are required to comply with the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code. There are a number of dangers inherent ...
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TT Club reduces estimates on Maemi claims
The TT Club has confirmed that its latest assessment of claims resulting from Typhoon Maemi, the devastating storm that hit South Korea in September, is substantially reduced from the initial estimates of $40-50 million with the likely level of claims faced by the mutual not expected to exceed $25 million.
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NewsMINI-SPRINTER-SHUTTLE-CONTRUNNER-STRADS COME OF AGE
Fazilette Khan reports on how the fast new mini-strad carrier is finding its rightful place in the terminal equipment hierarchy.
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NewsRaising the Bottom Line
Steve Cameron reports on progress towards modern management practices in India and an interesting study tour he''s conducting of UK ports by Indian port managers
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NewsDrewry privatises the world
Drewry Shipping' s Dean Davison weighs up privatisation opportunities and discusses the criteria that may be applied in the evaluation process
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NewsLESSONS FROM THE 'CAT' MARKET
Recent events in Busan have served to concentrate the minds of people who have to think about the risk management of ports and terminals. It is probably fair to say that the minds of many of them have mostly been focused on the hitherto much neglected subject of security caused ...
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NewsSassnitz-Mukran flexes cargo muscles
Europe''s biggest fish processing plant has opened near the port of Sassnitz-Mukran closing a gap in the supply chain between product and consumer in the German Baltic state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The former GDR seaport is better known for its ferry and ro-ro traffic. The settlement of the € 80m Dutch-owned ...
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News..while Patrick goes all the way
Meanwhile Patrick Stevedores of Brisbane has placed an order for 14 Kalmar ESC straddle carriers to be equipped for unmanned operations.
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New fertilizer terminal for Muuga
UK based AS-C Materials Handling has won a contract for the system design of all mechanical, structural, electrical and control elements at a new fertilizer terminal at Muuga, Estonia. AS-C has also supplied all control components for the facility as well as upgrading and integrating the control system for the ...
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NewsKalmar strads for Hesse-Noord Natie..
Belgium' s Hesse-Noord Natie has ordered nine Kalmar EDRIVE ESC straddle carriers for operation in its River Schelde terminals, Quay 869 and Quay 913. This latest order calls for five ESCs with normal spreaders and four with extendable twinlift spreaders equipped with a 50-ton capacity.
