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TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Incentives from ports need to be better when it comes to environmental improvement, it was argued at a roundtable centred on ports’ role in decarbonising the maritime transport sector at the 2018…

18th January 2019

Plea for better green incentives from ports

18th January 2019

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Record high levels of inbound laden containers were experienced on both US coasts in October, but BIMCO has warned uncertainty lies ahead due to US-China trade relations.

17th January 2019

Robust US container trade faces uncertainty

17th January 2019

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

Ships are now required to report their energy consumption data of their last voyage when entering and leaving Chinese ports.

17th January 2019

Chinese ports require energy consumption data

17th January 2019

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Port of Kiel is investing more than €30m in port expansion and environmental protection with projects including onshore power.

17th January 2019

Kiel cash boost funds shore power

17th January 2019

AFRICA

AFRICA

Kenya could lose the Port of Mombasa to the Chinese government if the government-owned Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) defaults on a substantial payment owned to Exim Bank of China.

17th January 2019

China funding puts ports at risk

17th January 2019

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Union leader Hugo Moyano is attempting to scuttle a government plan to create a single container terminal concession at the Port of Buenos Aires as of 2020, replacing five existing concessions.

16th January 2019

Unions intervene in Buenos Aires dispute

16th January 2019

ASIA

ASIA

PSA International boosted volumes by 9.1% year-on-year in 2018 on the back of “slow but steady” growth in global container trade volumes.

16th January 2019

Major operator celebrates surging volumes

16th January 2019

EUROPE

EUROPE

Global port operator Yilport is backing a Port Innovation Contest to encourage solutions to the current challenges facing the industry.

16th January 2019

Yilport supports innovation contest

16th January 2019

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

The governor of São Paulo State, João Doria, is to ask Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, to privatise the Port of Santos. He has labelled the current facility as inefficient and costly.

16th January 2019

São Paulo governor wants Santos privatised

16th January 2019

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A hydrogen-generating plant is to be built by Ports of Auckland (PoAL) to power hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles as part of the port’s programme to become a zero-emissions business by 2040.

16th January 2019

Auckland announces hydrogen project

16th January 2019