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NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Panama Maritime Authority is to invest more than $700,000 across 10 minor ports.Work will involve minor repairs and upgrades to buildings and infrastructure. 

1st June 2007

Panama invests in minor ports

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Mexican Minero Lobos group has made public its decision to support the Punta Colonet port tender, which is being put together by the Transport Ministry.

1st June 2007

PUNTA COLONET SUPPORT

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Tacoma, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Maritime Air Forum, has released a scientific study measuring maritime-related air emissions in Puget Sound.The inventory will form a baseline for future…

1st June 2007

PUGET EMISSIONS BENCHMARK

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Santos Port Authority is to put out to concession nine terminals by 2010. 

1st June 2007

Nine Santos terminals up for grabs

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port Authority of Houston and Galveston has signed an agreement to build a new container terminal on Pelican Island, which is situated to the north of Galveston Island.

1st June 2007

New Galveston hub plan

1st June 2007

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The estimated global port-related cost of implementing the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code has been put at between $1.1bn and $2.3bn initially, with annual costs thereafter of between $400m…

1st June 2007

ISPS an easy, but expensive, pill to swallow

1st June 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Bremen/Bremerhaven secures feedership role for the future as JadeWeserPort project gets go-ahead. Tom Todd reports

1st May 2007

Future-proof

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Few now appear to doubt the future strategic importance of what will be Germany’ s only deep-water container terminal: the idea, once scoffed at, appears to have literally grown on Germans. 

1st May 2007

Changing tide of German opinion

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

City hopes to boost future port prospects with a majority share sell off to an experienced port operator, as Tom Todd reports

1st May 2007

Lübecks share sights

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Germany’ s easternmost deep-water port,Sassnitz- Mukran, expects planned new rail-ferry links this year with Russia will help solve its problem of unused capacity and hopes more cruiseships will fill the rest. 

1st May 2007

Sassnitz-Mukran eager to fill unused capacity

1st May 2007