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PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

A carbon offset programme and carbon accounting tool are helping shipping operations and the ports they use become carbon neutral.

23rd March 2018

RightShip developments aiding carbon accountability

23rd March 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

Infrastructure construction for the Container Exchange Route (CER) has begun at the Port of Rotterdam in a bid to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.

23rd March 2018

Rotterdam begins Container Exchange Route construction

23rd March 2018

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Stricter environmental regulations on ballast water and sulphur emissions are forcing the shipping industry to take action and this year’s SMM 2018 will showcase future-proof technologies to help operators meet tighter targets.

22nd March 2018

SMM 2018 Green Shipping Conference

22nd March 2018

ASIA

ASIA

Protecting Asia-Pacific ports against climate change could cost up to US$49 billion, according to new research commissioned by HSBC from sustainability analysts Asia Research and Engagement (ARE).

22nd March 2018

Asian ports face $49bn in climate change costs

22nd March 2018

ASIA

ASIA

A modernisation project at Sasa Port could go ahead after being reinstated as a development opportunity under a public-private partnership (PPP) programme.

22nd March 2018

Sasa Port development could be realised

22nd March 2018

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Lifting equipment provider Konecranes’ supply of a Model 4 Mobile Harbor Crane to the Port of Miike will make it the first of its kind to operate in Japan.

22nd March 2018

Konecranes to supply MHC to Japan’s Miike

22nd March 2018

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

Protecting Asia-Pacific ports against climate change could cost up to US$49 billion, according to new research commissioned by HSBC from sustainability analysts Asia Research and Engagement (ARE).

22nd March 2018

Asian ports face US$49bn in climate change costs

22nd March 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

Five bids have been placed on a Port of Gdansk Authority (ZPMG) opened tender for the design of Port Centralny.

21st March 2018

Five bids for Port Centralny tender

21st March 2018

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Cargo handling solutions provider Kalmar is set to supply four of its T2 terminal tractors to Dutch logistics operator St vd Brink.

21st March 2018

Kalmar to deliver tractors to St vd Brink

21st March 2018

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Last week’s gestures of mutual goodwill leading into mediation have failed to result in a breakthrough in the industrial dispute between the Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) and Lyttelton Port Company…

21st March 2018

Lyttelton strike action as mediation fails

21st March 2018