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NewsHumber Trade Zone key to UK's 'Southern Discomfort'
An international conference to promote shipping, logistics and investment opportunities around the Humber Estuary takes place on 24 June in Hull.
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US$65m Expansion for Kingston
The Caribbean''s premier container transhipment hub, the Port of Kingston, Jamaica, has announced a fourth-phase expansion ahead of its terminal facilities in a move designed to consolidate and expand container business.
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New Box Terminal for Vancouver
The Vancouver Port Authority has announced that it expects to begin construction of a new $800m container terminal at Roberts Bank by 2007.
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OnePort to Enhance Hong Kong's Competitiveness
Major Hong Kong terminal operators Hongkong International Terminals (HIT), Modern Terminals Limited and COSCO-HIT Terminals (Hong Kong) Limited have formed a new joint venture company, OnePort, that will provide an open, secure and neutral platform for electronic information exchange between all port users.
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NewsICTSI Signs for Gdynia & Plans Big Capacity Boost
Senior executives of International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) and of the Port Authority of Gdynia gathered in Gdynia Friday 30 May for the official signing ceremony that marked the completion of the privatisation process for the port of Gdynia''s Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) and its acquisition by ICTSI as ...
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PSA acquires stake in ESCO Laem Chabang
PSA Corporation has made an undisclosed investment in Thailand''s Laem Chabang container port which will help PSA consolidate its presence in the regional market where the competition have been busy lately.
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Maersk Sealand weigh up Tarragona
Lluis Badia, president of Tarragona Port Authority, has revealed that representatives from Maersk Sealand (MSL) are discussing the possibility of transferring the company' s current Algeciras-based transhipment operation to the Catalan port.
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NewsMSC Commits to New Venice Terminal
Terminal Intermodale Venezia (TIV) signalled its entrance to the container handling business in Venice, Italy, with the handling of its first Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) vessel in mid-May. Four MSC vessels per week are now scheduled to call at the terminal which anticipates a throughput of 120,000TEU in its first ...
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Accelerated Korean Development
A new port authority is to be set up in early 2004 in Busan and Gwangyan, South Korea in order to speed up the development of a new container terminal and general cargo complex in the area.
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NewsBulky issues
Today' s pneumatic unloaders offer significant operational advantages but energy consumption can be a prohibitive issue, writes Benedict Young
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NewsBeating Box CONGESTION
Benedict Young investigates some of the new container handling technologies which promise to streamline operations for the ultra-efficient terminals of the future.
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NewsPrivate participation drying up?
In the first of an ongoing series, Jordan Schwartz examines the uncertain future of private investment in port infrastructure within the developing world, with a particular eye this month on Africa.
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NewsHarbour towage sector looks to lower manning
Jack Gaston explains why compact and manoeuvrable harbour tugs are the future.
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NewsWhat to do with the empties?
To remain viable, container terminals must implement effective management strategies for handling empty boxes, writes Benedict Young
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NewsThe soft UNDERBELLY
It is said that in the rather anxious aftermath of the 911 outrage, officials in the Bush administration looked around at the shipping and transport industry and saw in all its openness and globalness, the soft underbelly of national security.
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NewsDFDS Tor Line go for rental
DFDS Tor Line has expanded its rental and maintenance agreement with Kalmar to cover its terminal in Maasvlakte, Holland and the North Sea Terminal in Norway.
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Retrofitting Smartrail
Kalmar' s automatic steering and container position verification system, Smartrail, introduced in 1997, has been granted an international patent.
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Atlas Copco provide site power at Hong Kong's Terminal Nine
Jv contractors Hyundai and China Civil Engineering Construction are using Atlas Copco portable compressors and generating sets for quay wall piling works on Hong Kong' s new six-berth container terminal.
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Long Beach Beefs Up Security..
The US West Coast port of Long Beach has called for tenders for a video surveillance system that will include up to 50 cameras and is estimated to cost around US$5.5m.
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Massive Crane Order
Yantian International Terminals has placed a massive order for 57 container cranes with Chinese crane builder Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co.
