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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Size, money and environmental issues – all are having their impact on land reclamation activities. Stevie Knight reports.

30th August 2010

Settling for stability

30th August 2010

AFRICA

AFRICA

Construction of a $450m second container terminal at the port of Dar es Salaam is expected to begin early next year. Since 2004, box traffic at the port has grown by 15%…

30th August 2010

Second box terminal for Dar es Salaam

30th August 2010

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Saudi’s Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT) in Jeddah Islamic Port is betting on the outlines of the Middle East’s maritime industry being substantially pushed by the bigger sizes of vessels entering the…

29th August 2010

Size will matter in Middle East

29th August 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A new, especially robust plastic cable carrier from Kabelschlepp may be of special interest to ports. The 1320 series was developed as a heavy-duty version with a one-piece chain link to enable…

29th August 2010

Cables gain an overcoat

29th August 2010

ASIA

ASIA

The Chinese port of Qingdao has revealed plans to build the worlds largest iron ore handling terminal. A total of six berths will be opened at Dongjiakou harbour, boosting capacity to 192m…

29th August 2010

Qingdao to have largest global iron ore terminal

29th August 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Russian ports are a good medium-term investment, according to an analyst at Gazprombank. Alexei Atapov said that Russian port infrastructure is currently inadequate and lacks capacity. As a result handling charges are…

29th August 2010

Russia needs ports investment

29th August 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Ricardo Sanchez, head of the Infrastructure Services Unit of the Economic Commission for Latin America, says Chile faces a 14.4% annual traffic growth in its ports in the near future.

29th August 2010

Chile needs to speed up port investment process

29th August 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Ports in Central America are investing as a means of remaining regionally competitive, according to the Central American Commission for Maritime Transport (Cocatram).

29th August 2010

Investment regenerating Central American ports

29th August 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

New Zealand’s port companies are lobbying to repeal part of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act and once again be granted a fee simple title on new land created as a result…

29th August 2010

Ports lobby for reclamations

29th August 2010

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

The partners behind a €2m EU-funded project to develop a container tracking and monitoring system, are promising a failsafe device capable of detecting low-level radiation, VOCs, etc, just as soon as any…

27th August 2010

ISOTRACK sends a message from the box

27th August 2010