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SANTA CATARINA LEADS
Santa Catarina, with investment of € 491m ($664.3m), is Brazil' s leading port this year in terms of private capital.Part of the money is being spent on constructing two new complexes, various terminals, on new equipment and modernising existing installations. In Brazil as a whole, € 1.4bn ($1.9bn) is being ...
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PURETECH HALIFAX COUP
Halifax Port Authority has awarded a wide-area surveillance contract to PureTech Systems.The technology will be installed under a C$8m (US$7.2m) contract.
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Brazil offers trucker incentives
Brazil has passed a federal law limiting the amount of time a truck driver has to wait before being attended to at the port of Rio Grande in a bid to prevent the hold-ups that plagued last year’ s bumper harvest. Now,if a truck driver has to wait more than ...
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NewsMejillones in major refinancing
Chile’ s Angamos Port, which is better known as Puerto Mejillones, is to undertake a $60.6m refinancing involving Corp Banca and BCI.
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NewsBurden of bureaucracy
Terminales Internacionales del Ecuador (TIDE) believes that there are bureaucratic obstacles in place that mean potential cargo is still being displaced to terminals in Guayaquil rather than going through its port of Manta.
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Pedregal port concession challenged
The governor of the Panamanian province of Chiriquí has asked Panama Maritime Authority to have another look at the concession awarded to a company in Pedregal port, which he believes has not stuck to agreed investment plans.
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ANTOFAGASTA AREA AVAILABLE
Chile’ s Antofagasta Port Company is considering offering so-called “ Area C” to companies wishing to establish terminal operations in the port.
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PUNTA COLONET SUPPORT
The Mexican Minero Lobos group has made public its decision to support the Punta Colonet port tender, which is being put together by the Transport Ministry.
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PUGET EMISSIONS BENCHMARK
The Port of Tacoma, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Maritime Air Forum, has released a scientific study measuring maritime-related air emissions in Puget Sound.The inventory will form a baseline for future emissions comparisons.
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Nine Santos terminals up for grabs
Santos Port Authority is to put out to concession nine terminals by 2010.
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NewsNew Galveston hub plan
The Port Authority of Houston and Galveston has signed an agreement to build a new container terminal on Pelican Island, which is situated to the north of Galveston Island.
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PSA's departure no joke for Brunei
The timing was appropriate.April Fool’ s Day was the given date when PSA handed back operations of Muara Container Terminal, some 19 years ahead of its 25-year contract expiry date, bringing an abrupt drop in management expertise.
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NewsMalaysia's giants
Will Johor and Tanjung Pelepas ever join forces for the greater good of the country,wonders Wing Kah-goh
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NewsThe ever-increasing reach of Philippines' darling ICTSI
The Philippines’ dominant terminal operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc continues to widen its national reach.Most recently it expressed interest in bidding for the 25- year contract to handle cargo at the port of Batangas, situated two hours south of Manila on the main island of Luzon.
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NewsNumber crunching
Mike Mundy unveils the findings of a new study focusing on South East Asian port costs
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NewsLife after feedering
Black Sea ports are following Constantza’ s lead to take on a transhipment role in the region.Alex Hughes reports
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NewsRussian roulette
Slow investment at the country’ s leading seaport has allowed competing ports to leap-frog Novorossiysk, as Alex Hughes explains
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Odessa celebrates leap in throughput
The container terminal at the Novorossiysk’ s neighbouring port of Odessa, which is run by a subsidiary of Hamburg Port Consulting, handled 395,563 teu in 2006 compared with 279,812 teu the year before. This 41% increase, notes public relations deputy general director Svetlana Yarovaya, can be attributed to a number ...
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NewsNew beginning
Ecuador’ s main port gateway, Guayaquil, is about to harness significant foreign investment and expertise from international terminal operator ICTSI.Mike Mundy reports July 1 this year will usher in a new era in port operation and development in the world’ s most prolific banana producer, Ecuador.
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ICTSI ready to ring the changes at Guayaquil
Alex Villacres Sanchez, president of the Directorate of the Port Authority of Guayaquil, explains that under the terms of its concession agreement ICTSI will invest $168m in the port in the first five years of its 20-year concession. Key features of this investment will include:
