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EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Kotka ecoport is a project launched by the Port of Kotka as part of the City of Kotka and its EkoKotka project. Kotka ecoport considers the environment in all operations of the…

6th November 2009

Kotka joins EcoPorts network

6th November 2009

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

The Swedish Forest Industries Federation argues that the stringent regional sulphur rules of the SECA (the Sulphur Emissions Control Area, comprising the English Channel, North Sea and the Baltic Sea) was a…

6th November 2009

Lower sulphur levels in north Europe “are not sustainable”

6th November 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The new president of the Bahia Dock Company (Codeba) says that he hopes to resolve the impasse involving the expansion of the container terminal at the Brazilian port of Salvador at the…

6th November 2009

Resolution in sight for Salvador box terminal

6th November 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

With boxes out of favour, Eastern European ports are having to look elsewhere for business. Stevie Knight reports

5th November 2009

Power play

5th November 2009

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Much is written about the pioneering nature of the UK port model. Indeed, a fully privatised model was a thing of envy in the late 1990s when ports around the world were…

5th November 2009

Private concerns

5th November 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Its down to partnerships and innovation, claims the New Zealands Lyttelton Port of Christchurch, which has delivered a strong performance for the 2008/2009 financial year. Normalised profits for the year came to…

5th November 2009

Partnerships and innovation brings success

5th November 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

An unchanged underlying profit before tax of NZ$11.4m (US$8.5m) and comparable 4% increase in revenue to NZ$55.1m (US$41.2m) for the 2008-2009 financial year was recorded by CentrePort Wellington.

5th November 2009

Diverse New Zealand financials released

5th November 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Problems surrounding the startup of the Perus Paita port concession stem from a lack of communication, the foreign trade and tourism (Mincetur) minister Martí n Pé rez has said.

5th November 2009

Lack of communication compounds Paita problems

5th November 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Shanghai International Port Group has entered into an agreement with the municipality of Yibin to build and manage a new container port. Yibin, which is located at the confluence of the Yangtze,…

5th November 2009

Yibin to get box terminal

5th November 2009

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Members of AIVP elected Jean-Pierre Lecomte, to the Chairmanship of AIVP, at their most recent General Assembly in the Icelandic port city of Reykjavik.

4th November 2009

New chairman for AIVP

4th November 2009