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BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

A new report from transport information and consultancy services firm Dynamar has revealed that 24m teu is handled by 20 dominant transhipment ports across the world each year.

9th July 2018

Unique analysis of transhipment ports

9th July 2018

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

Terminal operators should “get to know” the partners involved in port selection, Hapag-Lloyd UK and Ireland managing director Cameron Bowie has advised.

9th July 2018

Leading shipper message to ports

9th July 2018

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

Key figures at the UK’s two biggest port associations have spoken out about the importance of safety.

9th July 2018

Safety paramount to port industry leaders

9th July 2018

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Harbour commissioners for the US ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have approved measures to ensure that new trucks that are just going into drayage service meet “the cleanest engine standards”.

9th July 2018

US ports approve clean truck regs

9th July 2018

CRUISE GREENPORT

CRUISE GREENPORT

Cavotec shore power technologies are playing a key role in delivering substantial sustainability savings to ports in China.

9th July 2018

Cavotec supports greener Chinese cruise

9th July 2018

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Taking a step-by-step approach to automation is sensible because it allows for time for terminals to become orientated with functionality and processes, the managing director of LASE has said.

6th July 2018

Port automation best approached in stages

6th July 2018

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

The Port of Gothenburg’s is bringing its LNG dues reduction into line with its general environmental discount so all environmentally-friendly ships are rewarded fairly.

6th July 2018

Gothenburg works on fairer green discounts

6th July 2018

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

A new $494.2m budget for the fiscal year 2019 is being implemented this week at the US Port of Oakland following the dock’s Board of Commissioners’ approval last week of a spending…

6th July 2018

Oakland green-lights big budget

6th July 2018

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

The possibility of even-bigger ships, the acceleration of ship cascading and the continuing impact of neo-panamax dimensions on ports are just some of the pressures being placed on container terminals today, according…

6th July 2018

Realities of “tougher” box terminal sector

6th July 2018

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A new A$33m common-user bulk terminal is to be built at the Australian Port of Newcastle’s Kooragang Island.

6th July 2018

Newcastle invests in bulk boom

6th July 2018