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CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

It is not just the design of a project that insurers need to get togrips with - it is the order in which the works will be carried out.

14th May 2008

Getting things in order

14th May 2008

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

There is a host of ways to reduce the risks and provide insurers with ahigher level of comfort, says Brian Elliot at Marsh. Ports and theircontractors should consider:

14th May 2008

Reducing the risks

14th May 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Australia is to enforce a national health and safety code for stevedoring after a series of accidents in ports over the past 18 months.

14th May 2008

Safety crackdown for Australian stevedores

14th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Transport and Communications Ministry in Ukraine has produced a new port development strategy, allowing ports to be operated on a landlord basis.

14th May 2008

New port plan for Ukraine

14th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

APM Terminals ended 2007 with a net profit of $411m compared with $99m for the previous year. Throughput amounted to 31.4m containers, an increase of 13%.

14th May 2008

Bumper year for APM

14th May 2008

ASIA

ASIA

PSA has awarded a S$160m (US$118m) contract for 79 rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) to Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction from South Korea. The RTGs will be deployed at PSAs new berths at…

14th May 2008

Doosan does it for Singapore

14th May 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Ports and terminals looking to expand the knowledge base of staff can now make use of eLearning products specific to the ports industry.

14th May 2008

Ports eLearning to target knowledge gaps

14th May 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Railpower Technologies Corp. and TSI Terminal Systems Inc have confirmed the results of the EcoCrane hybrid power plants installed on TSI Rubber Tyre Gantry cranes (RTGs).

14th May 2008

Ecocrane hybrid offers 70% fuel economy

14th May 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

John Polatz, investor relations director with New Zealand-headquartered Cavotec MSL, believes the newly-signed contract with Denmarks Nordic Ferry Services will prove vital to sales of its vacuum mooring units in Europe.

13th May 2008

Cavotec celebrates European opening

13th May 2008

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The Port of Longview Commissioners unanimously voted to sell wetland property for preservation.

13th May 2008

Longview sells “green” property for preservation

13th May 2008