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OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Rail and Maritime Transport Union Timaru branch president Peter Clemens has expressed his 80 members concern over PrimePort Timarus future following three major customers recently announcing service reductions.

21st June 2008

Timaru future in doubt

21st June 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Maersk Lines 4,100-teu ships have made a notable contribution to the transhipping-based 25% increase in container throughput to 89,000 teu achieved by Port Otago during the six months to December 31, 2007.

21st June 2008

Otago transhipment growth

21st June 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Tallinn Port Authority is pressing ahead with the initial phase of its eastern port development at Muuga, despite problems with assessing bids to undertake the necessary construction.

21st June 2008

Muuga undeterred by construction delays

21st June 2008

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

DP World is to ask its shareholders for approval to buy back 581m of its shares. At the same time, it is considering issuing securities totalling $553m, equivalent to one third of…

21st June 2008

DP World buy-back

21st June 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Australia business leaders have called for state and federal governments to invest in ports and distribution hubs.

20th June 2008

Call for Australian state investment

20th June 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

California-based Nautilus International Holding Corporation has re-branded itself as Metro Ports. The group includes the Metropolitan Stevedore Co, Southeast CrescentShipping Co, Southeast Maritime Services LLC (which holds SavannahInternational Terminal), and Cape Fear…

20th June 2008

Nautilus given new name

20th June 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Chinas Yangtze River container volumes rocketed 38% in 2007 on the back of booming trade, a new study has found.

20th June 2008

Yangtze river surges to new high

20th June 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Radical changes need to be made to Indias decision-making process if it is to achieve its aim of doubling port capacity to 1.5bn tonnes by 2011-12.

20th June 2008

Bureaucracy delays Indian port development

20th June 2008

ASIA

ASIA

The Pakistani minister responsible for ports and shipping is reviewing previous government policy on the ports sector and has promised to make necessary changes to bring it in line with international standards.…

19th June 2008

Pakistan to overhaul ports policy

19th June 2008

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Software developers and terminal operators dont always see eye-to-eye on productivity packages, as Alex Hughes reports

18th June 2008

Tracking productivity

18th June 2008