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NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

MSC and CMA CGM have withdrawn objections they lodged in respect of a proposed deal by APM Terminals to run various port terminals in Virginias ports for a period of 48 years.

31st August 2012

MSC and CMA CGM withdraw Virginia opposition

31st August 2012

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

New Zealand ratepayer-owned ports are expected to soon become subject to the Official Information Act following Labour MP Darien Fenton’s Local Government (Council Controlled Organisations) Amendment Bill being drawn from the ballot.

31st August 2012

NZ transparency bill drawn

31st August 2012

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

PrimePort Timaru chief executive Jeremy Boys has advised staff there will be 29 redundancies as a consequence of the port having recently lost its container trade.

31st August 2012

Primeport redundancies confirmed

31st August 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Corporate social responsibility is now an important part of the concession mix. Felicity Landon reports

31st August 2012

A key ingredient

31st August 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

A series of corporate social responsibility programmes were implemented by APM Terminals Callao when it started operations in July last year. These ranged from health & safety training and anti-corruption training to…

31st August 2012

Putting the community first

31st August 2012

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Global container port throughput is forecast to surpass 800m teu by 2017, but port capacity growth will remain 6% below demand growth, according to the latest port sector report from Drewry Maritime…

31st August 2012

Capacity growth to lag future demand

31st August 2012

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

A partnership to advance the research and development of ocean energy has been signed by The New England Marine Renewable Energy Centre (MREC) and the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

30th August 2012

US research partnership underway

30th August 2012

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

The third Motorship Gas Fuelled Ships (GFS) Conference is due to take place on 12 September to the 14 September 2012 in this year’s host city, Bergen, Norway.

29th August 2012

GFS Conference is fast approaching

29th August 2012

ASIA

ASIA

ABG Container Handling Private Ltd, a unit of Mumbai based infrastructure company ABG Infralogistics Ltd, has won a contract to build and operate a new container terminal at VO Chidambaranar port in…

28th August 2012

New container terminal for ABG

28th August 2012

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

The new Gold Sponsor for Greenport South Asia, ABB, explains that India in particular is a growth area and points out that 90% of the country’s trade volume is conducted by sea.

28th August 2012

Gold sponsorship prompted by sector growth

28th August 2012