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Dredging for Savannah
The Port of Savannah has received conditional blessing from the US Army Corps of Engineers in relation to the dredging plans to expand the US’s fourth-largest container port. The Corps have judged that the planned mitigation projects around the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge will offset the environmental costs of ...
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Port of Seattle wins environmental award
The Port of Seattle has won a national Green Fleet award recognising its use of alternative fuels including biodiesel, CNG and hybrid vehicles. It is also for its programmes relating to air quality and green practices.
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Zero emission trucks for Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach has entered a deal with Vision Motor Corporation to develop a hydrogen fuel cell/plug-in electric ''on-road'' truck and an electric zero-emission terminal tractor.
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Maryland promises to offset dredging pollution
Maryland Port in Baltimore has promised to offset pollution caused by dredging. The state Department of the Environment is requiring the Port Administration to limit or make up for the nitrogen and phosphorus expected to drain back into the Patapsco River from the dredged material to be placed in ...
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Port rail project gets funding
The Port of Los Angeles has been awarded $16 million toward a rail project that will both reduce pollution and ease congestion.
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NewsNew Initiatives
Explore the initiatives that will have a bearing on your future environmental strategy
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Shipping experts explore nuclear power potential
A consortium of British, American and Greek interests have agreed to investigate the practical maritime applications for small modular reactors (SMR) as commercial tanker-owners search for new designs that could deliver safer, cleaner and commercially viable forms of propulsion.
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NewsSmit and Boskalis sign merger protocol
Royal Boskalis Westminster and Smit International have signed a protocol for a full merger of the two companies. The transaction will be executed through an all cash public offer of €60 exdividend (instead of cum dividend as previously anticipated) by Boskalis for all outstanding shares in Smit.
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NewsNow it really matters
Long before the UK’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) became a reality, some companies were advising clients on the need to cut the over-use of resources.
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NewsVariety is key
Cruise Gateway’s partners include some heavy-hitting partners from the sector – such as Kiel, Rotterdam, Bremen, Hamburg and Harwich. But they also include ports such as Esbjerg and Aberdeen, who are starting to build steadily on the advantages they offer the cruise sector.
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NewsAll together now
Air pollution from the international shipping industry takes a huge toll on public health and the climate. It causes tens of thousands of premature deaths each year in coastal port cities
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NewsAnother way to efficiency
“It is really a different approach to our colleagues within the ports, where they are taking very specific environmental actions,” says Michael Stange, who represents the City of Hamburg, Port Integration’s key partner.
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NewsNot in my back yard!
The relationship between ports that need to develop and their surrounding social and ecological environments is very often a matter for heated debate with the NIMBY factor usually to the fore.
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NewsElectrification of rubber-tyred gantries
Conductix-Wampfler headquartered in Weil am Rhein, Germany, has received three large orders for the electrification of rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) in Asia.
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NewsCarbon control
Brian Gordon, of Holman Fenwick Willan, asks whether carbon funding can open the door for port emissions reduction projects
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ABP's Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal
Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Hams Hall inter-modal rail freight terminal near Birmingham has won an Environmental Innovation Award at the 2009 Rail Freight Group Awards held recently in London.
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NewsA way through the growth of Green
A ports magazine, e-news and series of events specifically aimed at issues thrown up by the growing environmental agenda is the subject of a new venture by Mercator Media.
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New Dutch coastline takes shape
The construction of Maasvlakte 2 is proceeding according to plan. Over a quarter of the necessary sand was applied during the last year by contractors’ consortium PUMA. The trailing suction hopper dredgers have started to create two islands in the North Sea. One of these is already over 4 km ...
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Vancouver air awards
A user-friendly incentive for shipping lines that reduce emissions has been launched by Port Metro Vancouver.
