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EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Speaking at the recent Green Port Logistics Conference, Maersk Line’s General Manager of Terminal Strategy, Soren Thomsen, said a terminal’s environmental performance was viewed as a tie-breaker when selecting where to send…

28th March 2011

Maersk calls for Benchmarking

28th March 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Advances in technology, cost-effectiveness, functionality - port operating systems need all three, finds John Bensalhia

28th March 2011

All systems go

28th March 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

The port of Las Palmas has become the first in Spain to convert its port labour company, Sestiba, into a port stevedoring management company with limited liability (Sagep).

28th March 2011

Las Palmas first in Spain with stevedoring reforms

28th March 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

The current economic crisis has meant that €300m ($425.4m) of investment in the Spanish Mediterranean port of Sagunto has yet to go ahead. This was committed to the southern expansion of the…

28th March 2011

Sagunto investment crisis

28th March 2011

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Iraqs Transport Minister has announced that a tender will be issued by the end of this year for a multi-billion-dollar port south of the city of Basra.

28th March 2011

New Basra super port mooted

28th March 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Spanish ports estimate making an average loss of 12% in their revenue in the current year as a result of applying a revised tariff model set out in new framework legislation.

27th March 2011

Flexible tariff reforms will cost Spanish ports money

27th March 2011

ASIA

ASIA

Erik Laidvee, the chairman of Muuga box terminal operator Transiidikeskus AS, has claimed that it is now unlikely that the Chinese port of Ningbo will cooperate with the port of Tallinn on…

27th March 2011

Chinese Muuga wobbles

27th March 2011

ASIA

ASIA

SBI Phnom Penh Securities Co, Ltd. has been appointed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Cambodia to lead manage an initial public offering of Cambodias state-owned Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS),…

26th March 2011

Sihanoukville to list

26th March 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Scottish government has given approval to ScottishPower Renewables for the development of a 10MGwatt tidal energy installation worth around £STG40m.

25th March 2011

Tidal energy for Islay

25th March 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Containers apart, one sector of South African operations that does reasonably well is bulk, though even this has its ups and downs.

25th March 2011

A staple diet of bulk

25th March 2011