Latest News – Page 962

  • Port Strategy: London Gateway will be the largest development within the Port of London for more than a century
    News

    London Gateway under way

    2009-01-27T12:24:00Z

    DP is starting work on the biggest development within the Port of London for more than 100 years. The 1,500 acre London Gateway will combine a fully automated deepwater container terminal and Europe''s largest logistics park.

  • News

    Archangel trading at 50% of capacity

    2009-01-27T12:24:00Z

    Last year, the Russian Port of Archangel handled 5m tonnes, equivalent to 50% of capacity.

  • News

    Cosco still interested in Farfán

    2009-01-27T12:24:00Z

    Despite being announced four years ago, the project to build the Panamanian port of Farfán has yet to make progress.

  • News

    Port equipment manufacturer expands

    2009-01-27T12:24:00Z

    Multinational engineering company, Linde, has opened a second 900 m² heavy truck assembly facility at its UK Merthyr Tydfil plant as part of a £ 16.5m investment program in new products and infrastructure. Giraffe House 2 will be used to finish the construction of vehicles that are capable of stacking ...

  • Port Strategy: "Our preference is always to focus on origin and domestic cargo when we look at investing", Capt Faisal Al Qahtani, DP World
    News

    DP upbeat on Aden

    2009-01-26T12:24:00Z

    Expansions into Yemen and Algeria in recent months have taken DP World''s network to a total of 48 terminals in 27 countries. Felicity Landon finds out about the latest moves

  • News

    Mexico to modernise ports

    2009-01-26T12:24:00Z

    Mexico''s Transport and Communications Secretariat has issued two tenders worth $62.7m in respect of port terminal modernisation at Mazatlán and Guaymas. The former consists of a multi-purpose facility requiring investment of $23.5m, while the latter is to invest $39.2m in a projected container terminal.

  • News

    Guaymas issues box tender

    2009-01-25T12:24:00Z

    Mexico''s west coast port of Guaymas has issued a tender in respect of the construction and management of a new container terminal. Expected investment will be $40m and the facilities are expected to be operational in April 2010 with a capacity of 100,000 teu/year.

  • News

    Costa Rican unions oppose ports privatisation

    2009-01-22T12:24:00Z

    Trade union leaders in Costa Rica continue to oppose Limón-Moín''s privatisation plans claiming that it would not be in the interest of workers because the port complex is currently profitable.

  • PICT_08-10-27_E-RTG_Cable_Reel_Solution.jpg
    News

    Conductix-Wampfler

    2009-01-22T12:24:00Z

    Conductix-Wampfler, the world''s leading supplier of mobile energy supply and data transmission systems, is offering current operators of rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) two methods of converting to electrified operation.

  • News

    Strike greets DP World handover at Aden

    2009-01-21T12:24:00Z

    DP World has now officially taken over management of box handling at the Port of Aden under a joint venture with the Yemen Gulf of Aden Port Corporation.

  • News

    Aussy operation extends automated fleet

    2009-01-21T12:24:00Z

    Patrick Stevedores has ordered another set of fully automated straddle carriers, bringing the total at the Fisherman Islands terminal in Brisbane to 27 - all of which are being looked after on a Kalmar maintenance contract that has been in place since the operation was in its testing phase.

  • News

    Patrick raises landside game

    2009-01-21T12:24:00Z

    Following a series of criticisms of the stevedoring industry, Australia''s Patrick Terminals claims that it now considers landside operations equally important to its oceanside obligations.

  • News

    Hybrids amongst the flock

    2009-01-20T12:24:00Z

    DP World''s UK terminal in Southampton has opted for two hybrid versions in an order for 15 Kalmar straddle carriers.

  • News

    Mobile box terminal opens

    2009-01-20T12:24:00Z

    Mobile Container Terminal, a joint venture between APM Terminals and the Terminal Link subsidiary of the CMA CGM group, has started operations at the US port of Mobile. Its current capacity of 350,000 teu/year will rise to 800,000 teu/year as new infrastructure is added.

  • News

    DP World unfazed by economic downturn

    2009-01-19T12:24:00Z

    DP World says that the economic downturn will not have any impact on completion of the new international transhipment terminal at Kochi in India.

  • Maher_interior.jpg
    News

    Another Rubb for Maher

    2009-01-19T12:24:00Z

    Maher Terminals has erected yet another fabric structure - its 14th - this time for salt and sand storage at the Port Elizabeth facility in New Jersey.

  • News

    Economic Reality

    2009-01-16T12:24:00Z

    It is not often that we can clearly identify distinct changes in economic realities but we can safely say that September 2008 was just such a critical time point.

  • BBI_Euroports_Trilogiport.JPG
    News

    BBI sells off more port business

    2009-01-16T12:24:00Z

    Troubled Australian bank Babcock & Brown  is continuing to sell off port businesses in an attempt to fill the holes in its books.

  • Container_vessel.JPG
    News

    Drewry paints bleak picture

    2009-01-16T12:24:00Z

    The latest report from Drewry Shipping Consultants points out what some may feel is the obvious - that 2009 will be the toughest test yet for the container industry and there is a real possibility of others following Chinese company SYMS and the Lonrho-backed SAILs.

  • News

    Algeciras unions strike deal with Maersk

    2009-01-16T12:24:00Z

    After 30 months of negotiation, trade unions at the Port of Algeciras have finally agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement.