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AFRICA

AFRICA

Sierra Leones President Kabba recently opened the 10-year BOOT container security scanning concession awarded to Intertek Foreign Trade Standards and partners Port Maritime Security International (PMSi).

1st July 2005

Intertek invests in Sierra Leone

1st July 2005

ASIA

ASIA

Chinas burgeoning export presence may be of concern to many neighbouring East and Southeast Asian countries, but evidence is mounting that some secondary ports in the ASEAN region are finding opportunities to…

1st June 2005

Emerging ASEAN eye trade opportunities ANports

1st June 2005

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

An updated and revised version of a European standard for cathodic protection of harbour structures, EN 13174, which will be of direct use for port and harbour engineers planning protection against ALWC…

1st June 2005

Revised Standard due next year

1st June 2005

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

A new report from CIRIA, and a revised European Standard for protecting harbour installations, offer new tools in the fight against Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC) as David Foxwell discovers.

1st June 2005

CIRIA Project provides new solutions for ALWC

1st June 2005

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Controlling and managing dust emissions can best be accomplished if a few simple guidelines are adhered to; and plant used to control emissions is selected with life cycle costs in mind, writes…

1st June 2005

Careful costing key to effective dust control

1st June 2005

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Coatzacoalcos port in the central-eastern state of Veracruz and the Pacific coast port of Salina Cruz are contemplating a joint concession to run their respective container terminals. Salina Cruz lost its container…

1st June 2005

Transisthmus corridor planned

1st June 2005

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Veracruz, Mexicos largest port in the Gulf of Mexico, is to reactivate the concession process covering three terminals, following an examination by the countrys antitrust authorities. The process began in November last…

1st June 2005

..and Veracruz reactivates..

1st June 2005

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

In keeping with the rest of North Africa, the two Spanish Moroccan enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta believe that there is still money is to be made from developing major container transhipment…

1st June 2005

..while Tamaulipas state to upgrade El Mezquital…

1st June 2005

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Dave Macintyre talks to Tauranga’s Jon Mayson about his passionate commitment to strategic cooperation and much else of value to publicly-owned ports and their prospective partners.

1st June 2005

Partnerships underpin Mayson’s Port Strategy

1st June 2005

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Undoubtedly however, Maysons greatest legacy will be MetroPort. Commencing with 60TEU capacity trains, the initial weekend-only service handled 32,000 TEUs and processed 18,000 trucks in its first 12 months of operation.

1st June 2005

Greatest Legacy will be MetroPort

1st June 2005