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AFRICA

AFRICA

Over the period of the last five years the Liebherr mobile harbour crane population in Africa has more than doubled, reaching 42 in total. Last year saw Liebherr handing over a record…

16th May 2008

Liebherr scores in Africa

16th May 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Optimising container terminal capacity through new plant and systems development, and adding incremental reclamation through dredgings, are key elements of the Port Development Plan published by Ports of Auckland. Currently handling 773,200…

16th May 2008

Auckland lays out plan

16th May 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Central American ports plan to invest more than $1bn on modernisation to cash in on the expansion of the Panama Canal and to capitalise on new trade agreements signed with Europe and…

16th May 2008

Investment boom for Central America

16th May 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Santos Brasil has been awarded a 25-year concession to operate a container terminal in the port of Imbituba in Santa Catarina state, for which the company will pay $72m. Capacity will be…

16th May 2008

Santos Imbituba move

16th May 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution has launched a new ship-to-shore cold ironing solution to enable ships in port to be connected to the medium voltage network of the local power supply company.

16th May 2008

Siemens launches new ‘cold ironing’ solution

16th May 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

A tender covering operation of the container terminal at the port of Manzanillo, Mexico, will be issued in June. This will also involve expansion of capacity at the terminal to 4.5m teu.

15th May 2008

New Manzanillo terminal

15th May 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

The northeast England port of Blyth found second-hand to be the best option when it required an additional reachstacker for its container operations; it has recently bought a second-hand Terex TFC45 R.

14th May 2008

Second-hand, not second class

14th May 2008

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

While some aspects of the anç ien ré gime remain, Ukraine ports are undertaking a more environmentally-conscientious approach to their operations, according to Kateryna Protsenko, a lawyer at Odessa-based law firm International…

14th May 2008

The might of the Ukrainian port inspector

14th May 2008

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Brokers claim that marine construction projects are often difficult and challenging - and not the favourites of underwriters.  Felicity Landon investigates why this is the case

14th May 2008

Not the underwriters favourite

14th May 2008

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Ports should get their insurance broker involved at the earliestpossible stage of a major project, says specialist Marsh. Every riskis unique when it comes to ports and we need to go through…

14th May 2008

Early involvement

14th May 2008