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OCEANIA

OCEANIA

PrimePort Timaru recently made 24 workers redundant and re-employed them on part-time contracts in response to major shipper Fonterras port-use revamp reducing its annual container throughput from 61,000 to 37,000 teu.

29th November 2009

Primeport culls staff base

29th November 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Local residents and port workers at the Peruvian Port of Salaverry have protested against the proposed privatisation of the installation.

28th November 2009

Privatisation protests at Salaverry

28th November 2009

ASIA

ASIA

A new green port collaboration between the Port of Long Beach and China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI) aims to further environmentally friendly technologies on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

27th November 2009

Green pact straddles the Pacific

27th November 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Uruguays national port authority (ANP) will not hold a tender process to concession a new container terminal in Montevideo port, an ANP official as said.

27th November 2009

Montevideo Not To Tender

27th November 2009

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The ports of Algeciras, Genoa, Ghent, Gijón, Rotterdam, Stockholm and Turku have been shortlisted for the ESPO Award for the societal integration of ports.

26th November 2009

ESPO award nominations

26th November 2009

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Roger Morris of Bright Angel Coastal Consultants* talks of some of the new challenges for the application of environmental directives which must be overcome in order to enable a high level environmental…

26th November 2009

New challenges in applying environmental directives

26th November 2009

ASIA

ASIA

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26th November 2009

Ports plan for Vietnam

26th November 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Spains Grup Maritim TCB is to develop a container terminal in the south of Ho Chi Minh City in Hiep Phuoc port. The proposed container terminal will have 1,450 metres for berthing…

26th November 2009

Spanish in Vietnam venture

26th November 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The recapitalisation of BBI infrastructure through the creation of a new investor company, Brookfield, has lead to the ownership of PD ports passing to its UK subsidiary, Brookfield Ports (UK). BBI has…

26th November 2009

New owner for PD Ports

26th November 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

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26th November 2009

Manzanillo port disqualifies box bidders

26th November 2009