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AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Rafael Cañizares of Moffatt & Nichol, explains how a channel modelling project undertaken by the company in Colombia enabled significant savings to be made.

20th April 2009

Modelling a deeper channel

20th April 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Spanish RTG users argue a strong case with Barry Cross for keeping maintenance in-house

20th April 2009

RTG article

20th April 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) is to become the first operator to employ Navis SPARCS N4 terminal operating system across multiple sites.

20th April 2009

Navis multi-site first

20th April 2009

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Eurogate, which operates ten container terminals in Europe, is focusing more and more on environmental issues. Hanna Pötter, responsible for environmental improvements, explains what has been done so far.

17th April 2009

Eurogate Terminals go green

17th April 2009

AFRICA

AFRICA

Durban Container Terminal reported a 15.6% drop in the year-on-year traffic between December and February. Had transhipment traffic not risen the downturn would have been around 29%.

17th April 2009

Traffic meltdown at Durban

17th April 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

US company CenterPoint Properties, which is heavily involved in property and infrastructure investment, has put forward an offer to acquire the port activities of Virginia Port Authority, which owns Virginia International Terminals…

17th April 2009

CPP to buy Virginia port assets

17th April 2009

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Managed realignments can be used as sites for beneficial sediment use to create coastal environments. Colin Scott and Susanne Armstrong of ABP Marine Environmental Research Limited (ABPmer) review some examples.

16th April 2009

Using tidal waters to create coastal habitats

16th April 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Nazery Khalid weighs up the merits of a liberalised port tariff regime in Malaysia

16th April 2009

To liberalise or not to liberalise?

16th April 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

All three plates shown here were submerged for six months at the Thames Barrier. The results show clearly corrosion of the bare aluminium sample, some protection with the sol-gel coating without bacteria…

16th April 2009

The bio-barrier

16th April 2009

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

So much upheaval is rocking the world economy that ports executivesare well advised to train their eyes on the insurance sector as well ason the financial and maritime news.

16th April 2009

The Insurer

16th April 2009