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PD Ports has completed the ground works at its container handling capacity in Teesport UK – the next step in its strategy towards doubling its container capacity.

Specialist UK sustainability, ennvironment and engineering design company, Ramboll, has secured a key advisory role to help Poole Harbour Commissioners to finalise its long term environmental masterplan for the Port of Poole.

The Port of Antwerp has released its first sustainability report – part of its “Total Plan for a More Competitive Port”, first launched in 2010 in response to the global financial crisis.

A new, LNG powered ferry has started services in Western Norway – and the both the builders and designers believe that these ferries are “the future”.

The worlds largest container carrier, Maersk Line, and Broström, part of Maersk Tankers, have joined the Port of Gothenburg campaign for cleaner shipping.

The UK Chamber of Shipping has rebuffed the idea that the shipping industry is trying employ “delaying tactics” around the introduction of further emissions regulation.

Improvements in water quality in the EU could be at risk from new forms of chemical pollution. The Commission is proposing to add 15 chemicals to the list of 33 pollutants that…

On 19 January the European Commission launched an on-line public consultation on possible measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ships. All interested stakeholders can send their contributions until 12 April 2012.

For the second year running, British offshore renewable energy specialist, Mojo Maritime, has won the Tidal Energy Engineering Company of the Year award at the annual International Tide Energy Summit.

Since capsizing, the Costa Concordia has been shifting dangerously. Italys environment minister has raised the prospect of an environmental disaster if the 2,300 tonnes of fuel on the half-submerged cruise ship leaks.

On 17th January, the Mayor of Harwich officially ‘plugged-in’ a new electric vehicle charging point at the UKs Harwich International Port - the first port to be included in the Source East…

Communauté de Communes des Pieux has announced tender for dredging works at the Port of Diélette.

Portugal’s government has set aside €103 million for port development in the Algarve in 2012, however this is at the expense of several other key projects in the region.

From 1 January 2012, Grand Port Maritime du Havre (GPMH) will be rewarding shipping companies which practice green shipping at the port.

The Port of Amsterdam is gearing up for a boom in biomass volumes as a result of an increasing focus on renewable energy and new Dutch Government proposals.

UK - Ferguson Shipbuilders in Scotland has been selected to build the world’s first two sea-going RoRo diesel electric hybrid ferries.