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CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

A fall in construction prices in certain parts of the world could help to drive new port investment, says Jonathan Tyler, business group director, maritime, at Royal Haskoning.

24th January 2011

Off the shelf

24th January 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The first ship-to-shore cranes have been delivered to one of the Fos 2XL container terminals being developed at Marseilles Fos under public-private partnership.

21st January 2011

New cranes for Fos

21st January 2011

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

An agreement involving the Port of Long Beach and the Panama Canal Authority aims to open up new trade between the port, the Caribbean and South Americas east coast.

21st January 2011

Panama agreement for Long Beach

21st January 2011

ASIA

ASIA

DP World’s new container terminal in Port Qasim near Karachi in Pakistan has officially opened, extending capacity at the port to 1.2m teu from around 900,000 teu.

21st January 2011

Qasim’s Terminal 2 opens

21st January 2011

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

After a ‘bounce-back’ year in 2010, mothballed port investment projects are coming off the shelf again. Felicity Landon reports

21st January 2011

‘New normal’ investing

21st January 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Inland ports close to national borders could act as stepping stones to smooth out freight corridors, according to European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) president Roland Hoerner.

20th January 2011

Inland ports co-operate on border issues

20th January 2011

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) is seeking an operator for its bulk facility at the Port of Mobile.

20th January 2011

Alabama concession call

20th January 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

It seems that congestion at Lagos caused by a security task force positioned at the Apapa container handling facility is holding up cargo movement.

20th January 2011

Security hold ups at Lagos

20th January 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A fully integrated but still completely mobile system has been installed at the Port of Coquimbo in Chile for loading copper concentrate at rates of up to 1,000 tonnes per hour.

20th January 2011

Flexible shiploader for Coquimbo

20th January 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Flagship, a part EU-funded maritime transport project, has successfully implemented a real-time optimisation system targeting congestion in container terminals.

20th January 2011

Real-time software for box operations

20th January 2011