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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

International facility developer Trans- Development Group recently contracted Rubb Buildings for a relocatable structure to process automotives in Dundalk,US.

1st March 2007

Rubb drives automobile storage

1st March 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

Nigeria is to build a major deepwater port in the Niger Delta.The project is to be taken forward in four phases, the first of which will commence in March for an eventual…

1st March 2007

NIGERIA PLANS NEW DEEPWATER PORT

1st March 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

ICTSI subsidiary,Madagascar International Container Terminal Services,has commissioned a new Gottwald heavy duty mobile crane at its Toamasina container terminal to increase handling power and berth coverage.

1st March 2007

MADAGASCAR BOOSTS HANDLING POWER

1st March 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

Konecranes has confirmed reachstacker orders from three African port operators. Six units will be supplied to the Namibian Port Authorities, three to Kenya Ports Authority and four to Ghanas Meridian Ports Services.…

1st March 2007

KONE NETS AFRICAN ORDERS

1st March 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The Saudi Trade & Export Development Company (Tusdeer) and Seaport Terminal of Malaysia, which helped established the successful transhipment port of Tanjung Pelepas, have signed a joint venture agreement to develop a…

1st March 2007

Third Jeddah box terminal confirmed

1st March 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

A new grain and fertiliser terminal was inaugurated at Djibouti at the end of 2006 following the award by Compagnie Djiboutienne de Gestion du Terminal Vraquier of a contract to Vigan SA…

1st March 2007

New grain and fertiliser terminal at Djibouti

1st March 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

At the end of January, Oman International Container Terminal inaugurated Phase 1 of its Terminal B expansion at the port of Sohar.

1st March 2007

OICT inaugurates Sohar expansion

1st March 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Authorities in the ports of Guayquil and Puerto Bolívar have until June 30, 2007 to transfer existing terminal operations to private-sector companies.

1st March 2007

PRIVATISATION SPEEDS UP

1st March 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Hutchison Port Holdings has handed over the Ecuadorian Port of Manta to Terminales Internacionales del Ecuador (Tide),marking the start of a 30-year concession.The original  agreement, which had seen the transfer taking place…

1st March 2007

MANTA HANDOVER COMPLETE

1st March 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Small port terminal operators in Ecuador are somewhat worried by the emergence of major port development projects, such as Manta and Posorja.

1st March 2007

Ecuadorians fear competition from outsiders

1st March 2007