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MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

DP World is to restructure the way it makes investment in its Indian container terminals.

10th January 2013

DP World to restructure Indian investment

10th January 2013

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

The world did not end on December 21st as the believers in the Mayan calendar believed that it would. So, now the focus should be on economic development and the expectation that…

10th January 2013

End of the world is nigh

10th January 2013

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

According to media reports, the Australian Government is still in dispute over a building tycoon’s plan to build a private bulk commodity port in Kwinana, Western Australia.

9th January 2013

Negotiations continue for Kwinana port plan

9th January 2013

ASIA

ASIA

Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT), a member of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Trust, has just handled its 100m teu after 18 years of transition from small fishing village into one of the…

9th January 2013

YICT hits a new milestone

9th January 2013

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Global paint and coatings business, AkzoNobel, and Taiwanese business, U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation, have become the latest companies to join the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI).

9th January 2013

AkzoNobel and U-Ming Marine join SSI

9th January 2013

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

US company WR Systems has announced further contracts for its Emsys emissions monitoring system, comprising orders from several shipyards in China and Korea as well as retrofits from two scrubber manufacturers.

9th January 2013

Further orders for emissions monitors

9th January 2013

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

Bangladesh’s Rupayan Port and Logistics Services and the UK-based Port Evolution Management are going to develop the country’s first private inland container terminal.

8th January 2013

First Inland Port for Bangladesh

8th January 2013

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Long Beach’s Board of Harbour Commissioners was due to formally approve yesterday a $1.2bn budget for the Middle Harbour terminal expansion project, but it was pulled from the meeting’s…

8th January 2013

POLB continues with infrastructure projects

8th January 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Global lifting equipment provider, Konecranes, has announced that it is terminating its straddle carrier manufacturing unit in Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, as a result of new equipment demand moving towards emerging markets.

7th January 2013

Konecranes to reallocate resources

7th January 2013

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

As part of the global cargo handling solutions company, Cargotec, Kalmar has won a contract to supply three of its E-One² rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) to Container Corporations of India Ltd (Concor).

4th January 2013

Kalmar to supply India with all electric RTGs

4th January 2013