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NewsMarseilles takes the long view
In an attempt to put crippling strike action earlier this year behind it, Marseilles has announced a string of investments to secure its future growth.
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NewsPort workers need never be alone
The UK’ s Argyll Telecom has launched a waterproof device for mobile personnel monitoring allowing easy pinpointing of workers in an emergency. The MaxCare device, which can be worn on the arm, leg, shoulder, waist or sewn into an item of clothing, combines mobile phone and satellite location monitoring technology.
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Congestion stunts liner reliability
Port congestion is being blamed for the massive failure of liner ships to meet their scheduled berthing slot this year.
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EL PRAT PUT BACK TO 2010
Partial opening of Barcelona’ s El Prat Quay has been put back to mid-2009. This follows the collapse on January 1, 2007 of one third of the 1,500 metre quay line.
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CYBIT LOCATOR LAUNCH
Online Telematics Service Provider Cybit has launched Cybit Positioning Solutions (CPS) to provide specialist telematicsbased solutions to industries requiring precision location and positioning information.The technology can be used to manage busy operations in ports and harbours.
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Mark of quality for container terminals
Classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has spearheaded a drive to develop a benchmarking system for terminals.
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PSC SEEKS CONTRACTS
Oman-based Port Services Corporation, which operates and manages Port Sultan Qaboos, has revealed that it is seeking additional port management possibilities both within Oman and also abroad. Initially, negotiations are to be made for the operational and management contract for Khasab Port.
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TRUCKS CLOG APAPA
Truck parking around the Nigerian port of Apapa, as well as the location of tank farms on the main road to the facility, are causing serious congestion in the immediate area. A joint action committee has called for the rehabilitation of railway lines to the port and the fast tracking ...
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KGL AND TATWEER JV
KGL Ports International has signed a memorandum of understanding with Qatar-based Tatweer Infrastructure Company to undertake joint port infrastructure projects wherever they present themselves.
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DREDGING PROGRAMME FOR MOMBASA
The Kenyan government is to fund a € 37m ($49.9m) dredging programme at the port of Mombasa.Work,which will involve deepening and widening the port channel, will be completed within three years. It is feared that a failure to implement the deepening of the draught could reduce Mombasa to feeder port ...
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DPW JEBEL ALI INVESTMENT
DP World has placed an order for 129 terminal trailers with global handing solutions provider Gaussin.The trailers, due for delivery this summer, will operate in the new Terminal 2 expansion phase of Jebel Ali Port container facility
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DP World profits take a tumble
DP World reported a net profit of $216.9m in 2006 compared with one of $242.5m in 2005.
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Yellow card for Haifa strikers
The Labour Court in the Israeli city of Haifa has determined that local port workers will be personally fined € 182 ($248) for every hour that they go on strike. Should the strike exceed 12 hours, the fine will rise to € 273 ($372).
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Jordan prepares Aqaba tender
Jordan is readying itself for a $3bn project to relocate its only port, Aqaba, to deeper waters 20 km south to expand its handling capacity. The government has confirmed that it has started the study of tender documents for the new port, which will include general cargo, industrial bulk and ...
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Dar es Salaam terminal offer
Tanzania Port Authority is to go ahead with the privatisation of operations at the Dar es Salaam’ s general cargo terminal. An outside operator is expected to be in place by June.
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NewsNgqura development ploughs ahead
South Africa’ s National Port Authority has decided to implement the € 363m ($489.7m) first phase development of Ngqura without private sector partners. However, it is still interested in collaborating with external companies to take forward the container terminal project.
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NewsKhor Fakkan boasts record moves
Gulftainer’ s Khor Fakkan Terminal produced record handling figures of 237 moves per hour with four super post-panamax cranes when the CMACGM La Traviata called last month.
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SAN VICENTE EXTENSION
San Vicente Terminal Internacional has been granted a 15-year extension to its container terminal concession at the Chilean port of the same name.The concession will now run for 30 years as from January 1, 2000.
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BRAZIL EYES EUROPEAN HUBS
A Brazilian engineer attached to Santos Port Authority (Codesp) is to visit 20 ports in Europe over the next four months to identify strategies that Brazil needs to adopt to develop major hub ports.
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ALINPORT STARTS POSORJA
The Spanish company Alinport has begun construction of the port of Posorja in Ecuador, which will occupy a 200,000 square metre area.Total cost is $450m.
