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The latest report from Drewry Shipping Consultants points out what some may feel is the obvious - that 2009 will be the toughest test yet for the container industry and there is…

16th January 2009

Drewry paints bleak picture

16th January 2009

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London Thamesport has introduced an e-mail alert system to update hauliers and port users on operational conditions.

15th January 2009

Email alerts from Thamesport

15th January 2009

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The European Union has approved $765m of public funding for the $1.2bn new deepwater port of Wilhelmshaven in Germany. The money will come from the federal states of Bremen and Lower Saxony.…

15th January 2009

Public funding for JadeWeser approved

15th January 2009

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As part of port expansion plans, Portroe Stevedores Ltd has taken delivery of six Liebherr rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes for the Port of Dublin, Ireland.

12th January 2009

Dublin and Algeria plan on Liebherr

12th January 2009

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A new ship-to-shore gantry crane has arrived at the Port of Liverpool for the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal where berthing for deep sea ships is to be increased by a third.

6th January 2009

Crane corners deep sea shipping

6th January 2009

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The Port of Riga saw volumes increase by 13.8% to 21.9m tonnes in the first nine months of this year. The increase reflected growing volumes in dry bulks, mostly coal but also…

5th January 2009

Riga projects

5th January 2009

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The Lithuanian port of Klaipeda handled a record 27.36m tonnes lastyear (2007), an increase of almost 16% on 2006. At the time of writing,the forecast was another 10-15% increase for 2008, to…

2nd January 2009

Klaipeda cargo record

2nd January 2009

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A Baltic Port Barometer study carried out in June-August this yearpainted a rosy picture of growth and investment. Felicity Landonexamines the findings

29th December 2008

Painting a rosy picture

29th December 2008

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Kalmar has acquired an 80% share of two Italian service companies, CVS Technoports and CVS Service from the CVS Ferrari Group, who will retain 20%. The companies will work under the name…

28th December 2008

The Italian job

28th December 2008

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Marport East (previously Kumport), has ordered another eight E-One+ rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Kalmar to support its five-year expansion plan, which also includes land reclamation and bridge connections.

28th December 2008

Turkish ports expansion plans

28th December 2008

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Spains Development Ministry is to invest ¢ 1.537bn ($1.94bn) in the national ports network, covering construction of 2,900 metres of linear berth and 91 hectares of new operating area.

27th December 2008

Spain ramps up port investment

27th December 2008

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The collapse of 600 metres of newly built quayside at the Port of Barcelonas Prat development area on the January 1, 2007 has reportedly doubled the cost of the work of constructing…

25th December 2008

El Prat cost doubles

25th December 2008

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Developing a 40 year relationship, Kalmar has been awarded a three-year service contract to supply empty container handling capacity to the Port of Gothenburg in Sweden.

18th December 2008

Port hands over headaches

18th December 2008

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With pressure on ports to both reduce emissions and fuel consumption, greener units like Kalmars hybrid straddle carrier are gaining attention.

18th December 2008

Toe into green water for Tilbury

18th December 2008

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Plummeting freight rates from the Far East into Northern Europe have put the spotlight on the costs of inland haulage and encouraged shippers to consider new routes, according to Martyn Pellew, PD…

17th December 2008

PD news story

17th December 2008

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By 2011, the private sector will have invested ¢ 330m ($416.8m) in the Port of Bilbao. Of that, ¢ 222m ($280.4m) will be for four bio-diesel plants and one manufacturing ethanol.

16th December 2008

Private sector ups investment in Bilbao

16th December 2008

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Mota-Engil has been readmitted to the Silopor port privatisation process following a judicial intervention, which decided that the decision to exclude it from bidding was excessive. The 25-year concession includes the silos…

15th December 2008

Mota-Engil back in Silopor race

15th December 2008

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EUROPE

Construction work has begun on Kiels new Schwedenkai Terminal, after renovation of the old terminal building was deemed uneconomical.

14th December 2008

Landmark for Kiel

14th December 2008

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Which ports come out on top in the competition to attract and build shortsea business? Generally speaking, the winning ports are those which recognise the business potential of shortsea and then take…

12th December 2008

The winners

12th December 2008

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Two south-east European ports are expanding their container operations based on 2008s rapid increases.

12th December 2008

Capacity increases for eastern ports

12th December 2008