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  • Port Strategy: "It's rare that a temporary solution can generate enough profit to fund a permanent one" Guillaume Lucci, Halcrow
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    Temporary port storage

    2008-12-16T12:24:00Z

    Temporary on-dock storage might not always be the cost effective option it first appears, as Mike King explains

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    Good return for Lyttelton

    2008-12-16T12:24:00Z

    Lyttelton Port of Christchurch has returned a comparable 7.3% rise in net after-tax profit to NZ$10.3m (US$5.7m) and 9.2% increase in revenue to NZ$83.4m (US$45.9m) for the 2007-2008 financial year. 

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    Reading the nuclear 'footprint'

    2008-12-16T12:24:00Z

    A method for detecting nuclear shielding in hidden containers without interrupting the flow through the port has come about through the teaming up of two specialists in the field.

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    When it comes to the crunch

    2008-12-15T15:30:00Z

    When it comes to the crunch, do "green" issues, and hence sea transport, still remain important?

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    Mota-Engil back in Silopor race

    2008-12-15T12:24:00Z

    Mota-Engil has been readmitted to the Silopor port privatisation process following a judicial intervention, which decided that the decision to exclude it from bidding was ''excessive''. The 25-year concession includes the silos at Trafaria and Beato in the Port of Lisbon.

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    Tanger-Med II gets development cash

    2008-12-15T12:24:00Z

    Tanger-Med Port is to receive a loan of $180m from Tangier Mediterranean Special Agency and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. 

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    When it comes to the crunch

    2008-12-15T12:24:00Z

    When it comes to the crunch, do "green" issues, and hence sea transport, still remain important?

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    Yangtze hub port opens

    2008-12-15T12:24:00Z

    Yangkou Port has opened for business in China on a man-made Island in the Yellow Sea, which is linked to the mainland by a 30 kilometre causeway.

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    Simulator training for Turkish terminal

    2008-12-15T12:24:00Z

    Yilport Container Terminal in Turkey is investing in a crane training simulator.

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    'Landmark' for Kiel

    2008-12-14T12:24:00Z

    Construction work has begun on Kiel''s new Schwedenkai Terminal, after renovation of the old terminal building was deemed uneconomical.

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    Major port development under way in Vietnam

    2008-12-14T12:24:00Z

    Work has begun on building two deep water ports in Vietnam costing a combined $695m.

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    Los Angeles offers traffic incentives

    2008-12-13T12:24:00Z

    Los Angeles Port Authority is considering coughing up $10 per teu for all new traffic that switches to the port to help offset a 5% volume decrease over the first three quarters.

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    Kenyan bonds to fund port investment

    2008-12-13T12:24:00Z

    Kenya is to invest $4.4bn in road and port development projects by 2012. Bonds will be issued to raise the necessary money to further develop Mombasa and build a second port at Lamu

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    Chinese box growth continues to slow

    2008-12-13T12:24:00Z

    Figures released for October showed that volumes handled by Chinese major ports were up 6% year on year, 2.1% lower than the rate in September. 

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    Newcastle contract awarded

    2008-12-13T12:24:00Z

    An A$105m (US$68m) contract to build the port of Newcastle''s third coal terminal has been awarded to the Thiess company. The contract involves building a terminal of 33m tonnes per year capacity, by the end of next year.

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    Cosco moots Australasian port investment

    2008-12-13T12:24:00Z

    Cosco Group global chairperson and chief executive Captain Wei Jiafu has signalled his organisation may be weighing up investment in the Australasian port sector. 

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    Capacity increases for eastern ports

    2008-12-12T12:24:00Z

    Two south-east European ports are expanding their container operations based on 2008''s rapid increases.

  • Port Strategy: The UK's Immingham has successfully capitalised on shortsea business
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    The winners

    2008-12-12T12:24:00Z

    Which ports come out on top in the competition to attract and build shortsea business? "Generally speaking, the winning ports are those which recognise the business potential of shortsea and then take the initiative without waiting for government action [such as Motorways of the Sea funding], by engaging in direct ...

  • Port Strategy: Otago (pictured) and Lyttelton hope for increased synergies as one unit
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    South Island ports talk merger

    2008-12-12T12:24:00Z

    Port Otago and Lyttelton Port of Christchurch have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a merger of their respective port operations.

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    Brazil investment 3

    2008-12-11T12:24:00Z

    President Lula of Brazil has signed an agreement for some Reais4bn ($1.7bn) to be spent on a brand new port complex for Ilheus, in the state of Bahia.