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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Some ports are more social than others, but to what end asks Felicity Landon

25th January 2016

Time to tweet?

25th January 2016

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

ValenciaPort Foundations Jonas Mendes Constante and Miguel Llop talk technology

25th January 2016

Doing more with less

25th January 2016

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

COMMENT: Global trade for the first eleven months of 2015 has at best been flat, but of those, eight months were negative or had no growth. The next six months are likely…

25th January 2016

Feeling the pain in Asia

25th January 2016

THE ANALYST

THE ANALYST

COMMENT: In many countries, port development and the development of, often adjacent, sites for industrial activities is traditionally done by different, state-owned entities, writes Peter de Langen.

25th January 2016

Integration key to development

25th January 2016

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

A series of 15 110m inland waterway barges being built for Belgium based Plouvier Transport, to be chartered by Shell Trading Rotterdam (Shell), will be powered by Wärtsilä dual-fuel main engines.

25th January 2016

Wärtsilä power for LNG barges

25th January 2016

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has launched a new K-Motion drive train solution for reachstackers in the Asia-Pacific region.

21st January 2016

Kalmar unveils fuel-efficient K-Motion drive train

21st January 2016

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Committed to market-leading growth, Ports America is currently focusing its business strategies on increasing its West Coast presence through additional investments and expansion of services into new terminals.

21st January 2016

Ports America refocuses its west coast strategy

21st January 2016

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Antwerp not only passed the 2m metric tonne mark for the volume of freight handled for the first time in its history last year, but it also broke another…

21st January 2016

Double record for Port of Antwerp in 2015

21st January 2016

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Perus National Port Authority (APN) has approved the technical report put forward for the construction of the new Terminal Portuario General San Martín in Pisco, which has been put together by concessionaire…

21st January 2016

New bulk and container terminal for Pisco

21st January 2016

ASIA

ASIA

Busan Port Authority has announced that it is on track to handle 20m teu of container cargo in 2016, which represents a 2.8% increase on last year.

21st January 2016

Busan Port Authority on track to handle 20m teu in 2016

21st January 2016