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OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port Otago has filed a resource consent application to deepen and widen its harbour channel, dispose of dredging spoil and extend wharves and berths. Expected to cost NZ$100m (US$70.7m), the project is…

21st July 2010

Next-generation” project for Otago

21st July 2010

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Oman International Container Terminal (OICT) has opened a new inland container depot (ICD) or “dry port” in Muscat. The Muscat Container Depot is Oman’s first ICD complete with customs facilities.

20th July 2010

Muscat dry port

20th July 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The latest Infrastructure Australia report outlines a number of port and logistics related projects that it says would help free up some of the country’s freight jams.

19th July 2010

Report identifies projects with “national significance”

19th July 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

An Australian mining port is to install a vacuum-based automated mooring technology. Hammersley Iron Pty, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, is putting in eight MoorMaster units at the Dampier Fuel Wharf, Parker…

18th July 2010

Vacuum mooring for Dampier

18th July 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Terminal 2 at Malta Freeport is to be expanded. The North Quay will be extended from 480 metres to 668 metres and the West Quay from 118 metres to 312 metres. The…

16th July 2010

Malta Freeport expansion

16th July 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Chinese river ports from Sichuan province to Shanghai have been involved in the largest action yet against overloaded vessels in the region.

15th July 2010

Major Yangtze crackdown on overloaded vessels

15th July 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

DP World’s terminal operations are to start sending data on containers to an external IT platform called SICIS (Shared Intermodal Container Information System), following successful pilot demonstrations.

15th July 2010

DP World to share box information

15th July 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

SP-SSA International Terminal (SSIT), a greenfield terminal close to Ho Chi Minh City, has opted for Tideworks suite of terminal management software to manage Vietnams growing container volumes.

15th July 2010

Tideworks wins Vietnam contract

15th July 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Ports Australia has advocated that state governments adopt a “best practice” to protect valuable port land from possible encroachment by other urban developments.

15th July 2010

Ports Australia backs best practice

15th July 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Cochin Port Trust has decided to pitch vessel-related charges at the new Vallarpadam container transhipment terminal at a level that will make facility competitive with other transhipment hubs in the region.

15th July 2010

Vallarpadam to be rate competitive

15th July 2010