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EUROPE

EUROPE

Port Strategy (PS) continues its focus on the role of government in UK containerport expansion, which, sadly, continues to represent a master-class in how it shouldnt be done, writes Mike Mundy

1st April 2004

UK PORT PLANNING BLIND SPOTS?

1st April 2004

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

In a series of special reports on Security, this month PS presents a paper arguing the case for scanning each and every container.

1st April 2004

END THE APATHY BEFORE IT CRIPPLES INTERNATIONAL TRADE

1st April 2004

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

One thing which you may take from the current ports and terminals scene is that the industrial demand for new capacity in container ports is likely to come up against the NIMBYism…

1st April 2004

NO SPACE PROBLEMS IN MIDSTREAM

1st April 2004

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

That salty old scribe Mike Grey wrote in Lloyds List recently of the dangers of buying into the notion that pilots could be replaced by sea traffic controllers based in the VTS…

1st April 2004

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD

1st April 2004

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Following months of debate, Perus Transport & Communications ministry has issued regulations governing a new National Port Law. An 11-person directorate has been established with a remit to determine the best way…

1st April 2004

Peru to introduce concessions

1st April 2004

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Lebanon' s second port of Tripoli reports a boom in vehicle imports thanks to resumed trade with Iraq. Over the past year new vehicle imports have averaged 7,000 a month, an increase…

1st April 2004

Tripoli in Iraqi car boom

1st April 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Valencia port authority has adopted a plan which will ensure that sufficient capacity will be available at the port until at least 2015. Both the main port of Valencia and the secondary…

1st April 2004

Valencia to expand facilities

1st April 2004

ASIA

ASIA

Steen Lund, Maersk' s senior vp Asia for line management, recently made some extremely high profile remarks to the press regarding what he sees as capacity bottlenecks at some container ports in…

1st April 2004

Maersk warns Indians

1st April 2004

AFRICA

AFRICA

Cheayee Dee, md of Liberias National Port Authority claims that at least $40m will be needed to bring Freeport back to internationally acceptable standards following 15 years of civil war.

1st April 2004

Freeport seeks investment

1st April 2004

ASIA

ASIA

Chittagong Port Authority and the China Harbour Engineering Group have signed an agreement for the construction of the New Mooring Container Terminal at the port. Phase I, which will involve the building…

1st April 2004

New terminal capacity in Bangladesh

1st April 2004