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The GreenPort Logistics conference in Stockholm earlier this year focused on the challenges of carbon reduction in the transport chain

Gleadell Agriculture Ltd has just taken delivery of a rubber-tyred mobile shiploader from B&W Mechanical Handling for its new grain loading facility currently being constructed at the Port of Great Yarmouth, on…

The Port of Felixstowe, UK, is celebrating after gaining one award, and being runner-up in a second category at Suffolk County Council’s ‘Creating the greenest county awards 2010’.

With a number of customers already signed up before any final landscaping has been added, Great Yarmouth’s new outer harbour at EastPort UK, offers a promising start having just opened in January.

Over the past 10 years there has been a significant reduction in pollutants released into the atmosphere around Antwerp harbour. According to the findings of a survey conducted by the large-scale industry…

Intermodal has an important role to play in reducing the environmental impact of freight transport. But a level playing field is needed, writes Peter Wolters deputy secretary-general of the European Intermodal Association

Intermodal services to ports and the introduction of rail shuttles are beneficial to both cargo shippers and transport service providers. Kate Royston reviews recent developments

Karolina Boholm, Advisor, Transport Policy of Industrial Policy Department, Swedish Forest Industries Federation, responds to the comments by Christer Ågren

The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was widely viewed as a political failure. However, Jan Prahm, of TuTech Innovation GmbH, argues a number of positives can be drawn from the event

The construction of the Port of Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte 2 terminal is now under way, in preparation for its opening in 2013. The construction and operation of the terminal is being undertaken within…

The French port reform of July 2008 gave ports a new role in the area of sustainable development. Dunkerque-Port’s strategic plan, approved on 3 April 2009, forms part of the port’s policy…

One of the seven short-listed ports for the ESPO Societal Integration Award, the Port of Algeciras is not just concerned with urban-planning or landscaping, but also with a wider social reality. GreenPort…

Ports in Poland are now applying environmental policy – even though there is often confusion between European and Polish legislation. Kasia Kurek, of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, reviews the environmental initiatives that are…

Norfolk Southern Corporation’s sustainability initiatives have earned the company recognition as one of 25 green supply chain partners named by Inbound Logistics magazine.

With its “Port and City Together” Project, the Port of Gijón, Spain, was the first winner of the ESPO Societal Integration award. GreenPort Journal interviews the President of the Port of Gijón,…

Simon Bennett, secretary, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), reviews the Copenhagen Conference and the implications for the global shipping industry

The UK’s Freight Transport Association (FTA) has welcomed the Department for Transport’s (DfT) long-awaited National Policy Statement for ports. The trade body believes that the draft statement should pave the way for…