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    Vizhinjam promotes

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    CentrePort Wellington chief executive Liz Ward indicated the cranes would be a significant driver in achieving greater productivity and service reliability. "Our business strategy is to grow revenue through an integrated logistics approach to port facilities, services and property interests, " says Ms Ward. "However, CentrePort Wellington is foremost a ...

  • Eilat: shipyard interest too
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    Aussies eye Israel's Eilat

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Representatives of an Australian shipping company have visited Israel with a view to purchasing Eilat Port. The group is also reportedly interested in investing in the proposed rail link between Eilat and Ashdod which could provide an alternative to the Suez Canal. Also interested in acquiringAlso in the bidding for ...

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    NPA TO OFFLOAD MORE WORKERS

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has implemented a second phase redundancy programme encompassing 1,000 employees.

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    Intense interest in second Chennai box terminal

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Ten companies have purchased tender documents relating to the development of a second container terminal at Chennai.

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    JAPAN URGES BANGLADESH TO BUILD SEAPORT

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    These include NYK, MOL, CMA CGM, PSA, HPH, Evergreen, Container Corporation of India, Larsen & Toubro and Gammon India. A contract is expected to be awarded in September or October.The Japan External Trade Organisation, which forms part of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, has urged Bangladesh to build ...

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    DPI PREFERRED FOR ADEN

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    These include NYK, MOL, CMA CGM, PSA, HPH, Evergreen, Container Corporation of India, Larsen & Toubro and Gammon India. A contract is expected to be awarded in September or October.DPI Terminals (DPI) has been named preferred bidder for the 30 year concession to manage and develop terminal operations at Aden. ...

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    History gives way to progress

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    " The march of progress leaves little room for sentiment, " said Bruce Koch, as he watched a contractor high above at work with a cutting torch. Koch, the Port of Tacoma''s electronics technology manager, was witnessing the unceremonious dismantling of an important piece of port history. As dozens of ...

  • Governor Riley kicks off funding for new terminal
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    Mobile to lure business with new terminal

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Alabama governor Bob Riley has signed into law a Bill providing US$80m to the port of Mobile for the construction of a new container terminal. The remaining funding for the US$300m project will come from Alabama State Docks revenues and a private terminal partner yet to be identified.

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    APMT scores in Brazil

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    APM Terminals has acquired a 50% shareholding in Terminal de Conteineres do Vale do Itajai S/A (Teconvi) in Itajai, southern Brazil.

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    ..while Santos runs out of money...

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The decision by the Justice Department to block loans to Codesp totalling US$2.49m for a minimum of 15 days is so worrying companies involved in the dredging of the port''s access channel that they are threatening to stop work.

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    Porto Alegre completes harbour move

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    After 81 years of activity at Maua Harbour, Porto Alegre has moved operational activities to Navegantes Harbour, some six kilometres further north, but closer to the city centre. This area, which has 4.6km of quay, has increased the port''s capacity from 2,000 to 4,500 tonnes per day. The aim is ...

  • Santos: taking advantage of the Reporto programme
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    Equipment spending boom in Brazil?

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Seven Brazilian container terminals are investing US$82.8m in new equipment to expand capacity on average by around 30%. In part, they are taking advantage of the Reporto programme, which waives federal taxes on national and imported assets for use by ports. This tax break, which will end in 2007, is ...

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    ..but warns capacity running out..

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The president of Santos Port Authority (Codesp), Jose Carlos Mello Rego, says that the port will have reached the limit of its effective design capacity within the next three years. He therefore insists that major infrastructure and expansion work must go ahead, given that the port will handle a combined ...

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    ISPS A Year On

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    There is little doubt that for many in the ports and terminals industry the build-up to and implementation of the ISPS Code in July 2004 came as something of a shock to the system. TT Club believes the industry deserves a pat on the back.

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    PSA HUNTS IN HONG KONG, TIANJIN AND?

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    CentrePort Wellington chief executive Liz Ward indicated the cranes would be a significant driver in achieving greater productivity and service reliability. "Our business strategy is to grow revenue through an integrated logistics approach to port facilities, services and property interests, " says Ms Ward. "However, CentrePort Wellington is foremost a ...

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    Adding Capacity

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    NEWCASTLE Current capacity of Port Waratah Coal Services: 89m tons. Now spending US$130m to raise capacity to 102m tons by 2007 and subsequently to 120m tons.

  • Congestion did nothing to harm record-high prices in the short term
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    More Heat than Light

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Debate has raged in Australia over who was asleep on the job when more coal terminal capacity should have been under construction. But it has turned out to be more complicated than many believe, writes Kevin Chinnery from Sydney.

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    New cranes for CentrePort Wellington

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    CentrePort Wellington is to purchase two new Liebherr quayside container cranes at US$7.14m apiece. The acquisition of the postPanamax, twin-lift capable cranes is linked to the port company''s recent receipt of a coastal dredging permit to deepen its wharves and harbour entrance to accommodate coming generations of larger containerships.

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    On the Move

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Jordan''s only commercial port currently handles annual traffic of around 20m tons. Situated on the Red Sea, it occupies a unique location, being virtually at the crossroads of Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as well as within striking distance of emerging new markets in Iraq. Alex Hughes reports.

  • J Muller Agris Buhler pneumatic unloaders: a working lifetime of 30 years plus is a must
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    Consider the Commodity

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    In direct contrast to the relatively brief front-line life expectancy of Dragon Alfa Cement''s pneumatics, the two Buhler unloaders acquired by German grain and feedstuffs stevedore J.