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NewsDredging to boost traffic at Santos
Following a cessation of two years, dredging work has recommenced at the port of Santos. In the meantime, the port has continued to break all records. In 2004, throughput of 70m tonnes was a reported, 10m up on 2003.
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EMERGENCY FINANCE FOR SANTOS
Brazil''s Transport Ministry is to release US$44.8m out of a possible budget of US$74.66m to enable some emergency measures to be undertaken and also permit immediate investment in development of the quays.
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AA FOR LB
Some funding will go towards landside construction and also to deepen the access channel to the port to 15 metres.Standard & Poor's Rating Services has raised the Port of Long Beach's credit rating to "AA" from "AA-minus, " citing the Port's "impressive historic and forecast cargo growth along with very ...
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Antonina to be upgraded
Some funding will go towards landside construction and also to deepen the access channel to the port to 15 metres.The port authority administering the harbours at Paranagua and Antonina has announced a series of measures aimed at upgrading the latter port. Primarily these will concentrate on dredging the port terminal ...
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BHP Billiton plans LA gas terminal
BHP Billiton has announced plans to build a gas terminal off the coast of Los Angeles as a means of combating the state''s growing energy shortage. The so-called Cabrillo Port, which will cost $600m to build, will commence operations by 2009. The facility will have the capability of supplying 1.5 ...
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MERGER AT BUENOS AIRES
Buenos Aires stevedore Terminales Rio de la Plata, has absorbed Terminales Portuarias Argentinas.
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NewsGETTING WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER
China''s bulk and break-bulk handling facilities differ significantly from its container facilities in one crucial respect: with the country''s entrance to the WTO, its container terminals - both planned and existing - were deemed not to be of strategic national importance, thus paving the way for the introduction of foreign ...
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NewsBIG PLANS PREDICATED ON BUOYANT FORECASTS
Both Rotterdam and Antwerp are investing heavily in much needed container capacity, but the struggle to convince government of the required urgency has been long and hard. Neil Madden reports.
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SHORTSEA MOTORWAYS OR MUDDLE?
Whilst transport is a perennial problem for any government, handling the issue across 25 nations is bound to constitute a major headache. The European Commission has been struggling with transport issues since its inception but with freight on Europe''s roads increasing by around 60 billion t/km each year and one ...
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NewsNAVAL TECHNOLOGY SHIELDS THE WATERFRONT
Sophisticated electronics, signal processing, unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) and command and control technology developed for naval applications are all being used to makes ports and harbours safer, as David Foxwell writes.
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PORT CONGESTION: GONE OR JUST "SEASONALLY ADJUSTED"?
Ben Hackett further explores the problem and concludes that poor planning is the culprit.
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Hard Choices
Life is about making choices - some harder than others. And choices have consequences. But once a course has been chosen - right or wrong - then what is done is done and anyway it''s usually impossible to reverse back the way you''ve come.
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NewsPSA ravenous for acquisition
PSA International is unclear whether its bid for Asian Container Terminals Ltd will be allowed to go ahead. Originally, its offer to buy a 50% stake in the terminal from Sun Hung Kai Properties was accepted on 30 November last year.
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NewsTHE FUTURE SEEMS RAIL-MOUNTED
The debate over the best pick of equipment with which to run a terminal yard - the straddle carrier, the rubber tyred gantry (RTG), or the rail mounted gantry (RMG) - has rumbled on for decades, and continues to, as Kevin Chinnery discovers.
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NewsTYPE APPROVAL BRINGS SECTOR INTO LINE
Fender testing and the procedure for reporting fender performance has been a hot topic for many years, ever since the almost universal adoption by consultants and other fender specifiers of the original PIANC testing guidelines back in 1984; but a major milestone was reached recently when the first manufacturer succeeded ...
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NewsTHE NEW KID IN TOWN
A new player, Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), is quietly preparing to emerge onto the international terminal operator scene, writes James Macpherson.
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NewsBOX BUILD-UP
Valencia is getting to grips with the task of adding major new container capacity to meet strong demand, writes Mike Mundy
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NewsI JUST SAT THERE THINKING. . .
When a reporter asked one of the returning astronauts what his secret thoughts had been immediately before the launch he said: " I just sat there thinking that this remarkable piece of hardware had 40,000 components, all of them supplied by the lowest bidder." Just how many crane operators have ...
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WHY'S AND HOW'S OF COMPONENT FAILURE
In a paper entitled ''Crane Modernisation - Why and How'', Tek Soon Chong, Jimmy Liang and Peter Darley of Singapore''s Portek, pick up on a number of useful component issues including that of spare part availability: " The heart of a container quay crane is the drive control system, " ...
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BACK TO THE FUTURE
The basics of loss prevention are as relevant today as they have always been, counsels TT Club.
