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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Classification society RINA has launched new voluntary environmental standards to allow ships to connect to shore-based electricity while in port, reducing harbour air pollution.

31st July 2009

Plug-in port standards set

31st July 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Plans to set up a single entity port authority for the Pilbara region have been ditched by the Western Australia Government. A change of government from Labor to Liberal preceded the decision…

30th July 2009

Pilbara multi-port authorities safe

30th July 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Uruguays government has submitted a bill to congress for the construction of a new $260m port in capital Montevideo, the president of Uruguays national port authority  Fernando Puntigliano, has said.

30th July 2009

Monty

30th July 2009

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Changing the waycranes use energy can have a major positive impact on energy use, asABB have proved with the introduction of their automatic cranes.

29th July 2009

ABB cranes go the regenerative route

29th July 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Bucking the weak global operating climate, Valencia port authority has confirmed to Port Strategy that its proposed extension works are running to schedule, and that it does not intend to postpone the…

29th July 2009

Valencia expansion on track

29th July 2009

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

The use of electric vehicles saves a great deal of oil, but arguablyshifts the demand from one type of fossil hydrocarbon to another, onthe basis that the electricity has to come from…

28th July 2009

Los Angeles looks to the sun for answers

28th July 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Government planners in Brazil have identified three possible new port sites in Sã o Paolo State. Two are at Ubatuba on the northern coast and one at Peruí be on the south…

28th July 2009

Three new ports for São Paulo

28th July 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Russias Baltic port of Ust-Luga has officially had its boundaries defined by the central government. This has been done to make foreign and Russian investment in the port more attractive. Located close…

27th July 2009

Ust-Luga boundaries in place

27th July 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Several Chilean ports are suffering as a result of the current economic downturn.

27th July 2009

Chilean ports suffer in downturn

27th July 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

In the UK capital, waste from many Londonboroughs is routinely transported by barge down the Thames to landfillin Essex. However, a waste-to-energy power station is beingconstructed at Belvedere on Halfway Reach in…

24th July 2009

Port Develoment Photos MottMac

24th July 2009