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ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

Ship Waste Agency, a French start-up created in 2010, has just launched a new groundbreaking solution to facilitate and ameliorate the ship waste management along with the participation of all the different…

23rd October 2012

A worldwide e-services platform to standardise and ease ship waste management

23rd October 2012

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

A Galveston terminal in Texas has come up with a novel idea to improve its operations both economically and environmentally - it is ‘repurposing’ conveyor belts to use as spill containment liners.

23rd October 2012

Repurposing at Galveston terminal

23rd October 2012

EUROPE

EUROPE

Valencia Port Authority has given Noatum Ports permission to temporarily suspend work that it is undertaking on Muelle de Costa.

23rd October 2012

Noatum reviews Valencia expansion project

23rd October 2012

ASIA

ASIA

Westports Malaysia is to raise $500m through an IPO in the second quarter of next year.

23rd October 2012

IPO to fund Port Klang expansion

23rd October 2012

ASIA

ASIA

Indonesian state holding Pelindo II is reported as preparing to sell off its subsidiary, Multi-Terminal Indonesia, which manages its logistics activities, as well as container and multi-purpose terminals.

23rd October 2012

Pelindo II to sell off box terminal holdings

23rd October 2012

AFRICA

AFRICA

The secretary general of the East African Community has revealed that negotiations are at an advanced stage to privatise the ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam.

23rd October 2012

East African ports for sale

23rd October 2012

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has issued a simplified overview of the revised version of MARPOL Annex V (Garbage), which comes into effect on 1 January 2013 and will introduce stricter controls…

23rd October 2012

Revised MARPOL Annex V – IMO overview

23rd October 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Earlier this year, PSA announced that it had asked ZPMC and Singapore Technologies Kinetics Limited to each develop an AGV prototype with energy-efficient hybrid technology. As part of the project, Cargotec was…

23rd October 2012

Cargotec enters the AGV fray

23rd October 2012

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Hamburg Business Association has accepted the Federal Administrative Court’s (FAC) decision to deepen the River Elbe, but says fast legal decisions need to be made to reduce the impact…

20th October 2012

Port of Hamburg calls for change in laws

20th October 2012

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

DP World recently invested in the latest straddle carriers for its container terminal at the Port of Melbourne.

19th October 2012

DPW Melbourne invests in greener equipment

19th October 2012