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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

DP World Callao has placed an order for two Kalmar DRF450 reachstackers and two Kalmar DCE80 empty container handlers for its new terminal operations in Peru. Meanwhile, in Asia Yingkou Port Group…

2nd April 2010

Kalmar’s Peruvian order

2nd April 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

The TSCC Consortium, in charge of the reconstruction works of the Port of Itajaí, has laid out a new plan to speed up the completion of works on berths 01 and 02,…

2nd April 2010

Itajaí working round the clock on reconstruction

2nd April 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

GAC Training & Service Solutions Limited (GTSS) is a new initiative that will provide innovative and cost saving training solutions for the LNG and tanker markets, as well as other commodity and…

2nd April 2010

Training provision goes further

2nd April 2010

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Finding foolproof perimeter solutions takes a joined up approach, as Stevie Knight explains

1st April 2010

Fenced in

1st April 2010

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The proposed New Doha Port will have a five kilometre long access channel, alongside which will be located a number of large container terminals.

1st April 2010

Doha to be dotted with box terminals

1st April 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A comparable 35% reduction in interim profit to NZ$3.7m (US$2.6m) and a “mixed” Northern Hemisphere trade outlook despite positive Asian volume, has seen Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) reduce its full-year profit…

1st April 2010

Reduced LPC profit

1st April 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

An announcement that Ports of Auckland is investigating outsourcing parts of its stevedoring operation to third-party contractors has drawn a “not this century” response from a stopwork meeting of about 150 Maritime…

1st April 2010

Union reacts to Auckland outsourcing

1st April 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

With a further order from Lebanon and a follow-up order from Qatar, Gottwald is strengthening its position in the Middle East.

1st April 2010

Eastern orders for Gottwald

1st April 2010

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

An updated Code of Safe Practice for the carriage of timber cargo on deck is now being prepared for submission to the IMO’s DSC sub-committee. Mike Compton* reviews the probable changes to…

31st March 2010

Timber deck cargo under the spotlight

31st March 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

The British Conservative Party has pledged to call a halt to the collection of backdated port business rates and carry out a review of the issue, if it wins the upcoming General…

31st March 2010

Tories pledge on UK backdated rates fiasco

31st March 2010