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NewsFeedering fan
MICT offers some instructive lessons to its peers in feeder terminal operation, reports Mike Mundy
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NewsShaping the environmental future for ports
Many of the world’s harbours are located in city environments where noise and emission pollution from docked ships is a growing concern. With this in mind, port cities, port authorities, ship-owners, industry suppliers and regulators are now focusing on the decade old technology known as shore-to-ship power, for which universal ...
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NewsPortuguese dockers air grievances
A pledge of support has been given to dockers in Lisbon by both the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and the International Dockworkers’ Council (IDC) in advance of a Europe-wide strike planned for next week.
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NewsNew LNG bunkering for Fjord Line
Fjord Line is to bunker its new LNG ferries while passengers are on board, once permission is granted by Norwegian authorities.
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NewsMiddle Eastern moves
Middle East container trade rides the wave of increased regional spending. Mike Mundy reports
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NewsDampier’s first floating deck is expected to be commissioned in early January 2014
Dampier’s first floating deck is expected to be commissioned in JanuaryOne port which has created its own solution is the Dampier Port Authority in West Australia, where chief operating officer Captain Paul Toussaint-Jackson has devised a floating deck transhipment system featuring a deck which moves back and forth between landside ...
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NewsSwitching on to Salalah's savings
The Port of Salalah''s SWITCH programme aims to reduce the port’s carbon offset by 25% by 2014 and as part of the project the port has launched 17 ongoing initiatives to reduce carbon emissions and waste over the last three years.
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NewsReducing run-off
Reducing the environmental import of port development can actually save money.
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NewsMARPOL amendments enter into force
The New Year has seen a number of amendments to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) enter into force and take effect.
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NewsCargo shift
Ports are looking to specialist solutions for bulk transhipments, as Dave and Iain MacIntyre find out
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NewsPatched into cyber risks
Since the rushed introduction of the International Ship and Port Facility Code back in 2004, ports have had a dogged focus on security of their facilities. Miles of perimeter fencing has been erected, tens of thousands of security plans have been put in place and countless port security officers have ...
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NewsSynthetic diesel tug
Dutch company Royal Boskalis says that the tug ‘Smit Elbe’, which is based in the port of Rotterdam, has become the first tug in the Netherlands to be fuelled with Shell GTL.
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NewsKalmar automation for TraPac
TraPac Inc’s automated terminal at the Port of Los Angeles has awarded Kalmar, part of Cargotec, a contract to integrate the controls for its new rail mounted gantry cranes (RMGs) in its intermodal yard.
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Paying for progress
HFW''s Gudmund Bernitz discusses the financing options open to ports looking to expand
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The importance of UK trade
The UK trade remains one of the largest single country trades in Northern Europe.
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NewsMangalore port makes ‘eco-friendly’ list
New Mangalore Port, one of the major ports in Karnataka, India, has been named as an eco-friendly port thanks to a number of ongoing initiatives.
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NewsCanadian container terminal concept aired
Canada''s Port Alberni Port Authority (PAPA) is looking to build a major new US$1bn container terminal - if constructed it would be the largest of its kind in the country.
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NewsPolitics of ports
Investment in catering for direct containership calls in the UK has been lacking, explains Ben Hackett
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NewsDual fuelled PSV order
Siem Offshore has entered into shipbuilding-contracts with Remontowa Shipbuilding in Poland for four new dual-fuelled Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) of VS 4411 DF design.
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NewsDSME to build 'largest' LNG FSRU
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) is to build what is thought will be the world’s largest LNG floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) for Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL).
