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ASIA

ASIA

Plans by the Reliance group to build a new deepwater port at Rewas in India have been delayed as a result of difficulties in getting the necessary land appropriated by the state…

27th February 2009

Reliance delays Indian port project

27th February 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Ports of Aucklands lawyers are seeking leave to appeal a recent Court of Appeal decision to the Supreme Court.

27th February 2009

Auckand heads to supreme court

27th February 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

El Salvadors port authority (CEPA) urgently needs to privatise its ports to stop its finances passing into the red, according to local sources.

27th February 2009

CEPA desperate for private sector cash

27th February 2009

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Insurers are working with operators and equipment suppliers to upgrade shore safety, keep cranes on track, and cut claims right back, finds James Brewer

26th February 2009

Containerport Insurance

26th February 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Yang Ming is to go ahead with a 2.92m teu box terminal at the port of Kaohsiung, despite the economic downturn.

26th February 2009

Yang Ming invests in Kaohsiung

26th February 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Australias Newcastle coal port is looking at riding the downturn by an investment strategy which could potentially double the ports capacity.

25th February 2009

Securing the bottom line

25th February 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Zim has moved its western Mediterranean hub from the port of Barcelona to Tarragona, where it has a 40% equity participation in the Contarsa box handling facility.

25th February 2009

ZIM switches transhipment to Tarragona

25th February 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The four container terminals in the Brazilian port of Santos are to take on 300 additional employees this year. Santos-Brazil will contract 72 labourers and Tecondi 70, the rest will be divided…

25th February 2009

Santos box terminals hiring

25th February 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

The axe may have fallen on some areas of Brazils production, but a $300m deal that includes Caribbean port interests as well as two coal mines was concluded in December by Vale.

24th February 2009

Long-term plans in Brazil

24th February 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The president of Genova port authority, Luigi Merlo, has had his knuckles rapped by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport over an interchange of shares between the ports two container terminal operators,…

24th February 2009

SECH and VTE share swap scandal

24th February 2009