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NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

The 2018 edition of the GreenPort Cruise & Congress conference Europe will not be welcoming any plastic.

5th October 2018

A plastic free GreenPort Congress 2018

5th October 2018

AFRICA

AFRICA

Terminals at Lagos Port Complex are becoming congested with overtime cargo containers because owners do not have the financial means to move them.

4th October 2018

Container congestion at Lagos terminals

4th October 2018

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

Shell has delivered its first ship-to-ship bunkering of LNG from its specialised LNG bunker vessel, Cardissa, paving the way for other future operations from the vessel.

4th October 2018

Shell and Sovcomflot LNG bunkering firsts

4th October 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

There was strong opposition to free ports during the Labour Party Conference near the end of September, with the concept being described as “job-destroying”.

4th October 2018

Labour conference sees free port opposition

4th October 2018

ASIA

ASIA

China has blocked a US warship from making a port call this month in Hong Kong in the midst of increasing tension between the two nations over trade and the US’ sanctioning…

4th October 2018

China halts USN port call in Hong Kong

4th October 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Newcastle chief executive Craig Carmody has said that the Australian facility is still committed to a container terminal at the port — despite the Government of New South Wales…

4th October 2018

Roadblock to Newcastle container development

4th October 2018

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Brazilian mining and transport company Vale is on the verge of abandoning its Vale Pecém installations at São Gonçalo do Amarante in the state of Ceará after just two years, given a…

4th October 2018

Vale set to pull out of Pecém

4th October 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

María Luisa Guibert, president of Algeposa, has said that recent figures released by Ports of the State clearly show that Spanish ports are beginning to recover from the downturn many have experienced…

4th October 2018

Spanish ports industry in recovery

4th October 2018

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

A contract between an Estonian energy company and Damen Shipyards Group will see the construction of the first of a series of short-sea LNG bunker vessels to operate in the Baltic Sea.

4th October 2018

LNG bunkering options increase in the Baltic

4th October 2018

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Barillec Marine will supply LNG diesel-electric propulsion and the water injection dredging system for a new LNG hybrid dredger for the Port of Bordeaux.

4th October 2018

French port opts for hybrid LNG dredger

4th October 2018