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EUROPE

The Transport and Communications Ministry in Ukraine has produced a new port development strategy, allowing ports to be operated on a landlord basis.

14th May 2008

New port plan for Ukraine

14th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

APM Terminals ended 2007 with a net profit of $411m compared with $99m for the previous year. Throughput amounted to 31.4m containers, an increase of 13%.

14th May 2008

Bumper year for APM

14th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Stevedoring companies have taken equity control of 19 of the 36 Port Labour companies in Spain, which will become Economic Interest Port Groups (APIEs).

11th May 2008

Spanish stevedores seize labour company control

11th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Dramatic photos taken as the Port of Liverpool disposed of two redundant quayside cranes mark striking images of port progression in the 21st Century.

7th May 2008

Liverpool crane crashing marks a sign of the times

7th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Classification society Germanischer Lloyds award of its first Container Terminal Quality Indicator (CTQI) standard is an important step towards meeting the challenge of comparing global box terminals.

7th May 2008

Container terminal meets the mark

7th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

DPWorlds monster London Gateway port project has received the final seal ofapproval from the UK Government, making its dream of creating the countrysmost advanced container port a reality.

7th May 2008

London Gateway clears final hurdle

7th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Seven of Frances nine public ports - Bordeaux, Dunkirk, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire and Rouen - are to be privatised, with investment made available by the state to boost throughput…

6th May 2008

France to privatise ports

6th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Completion of phase two of the Port of Oslos container terminal at Sjursø ya has been put on hold and is unlikely to open before 2014.

6th May 2008

Sjursøya Phase Two delayed till 2014

6th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Marí tima Valenciana and MSC have ended the management contract that the former has at the latters home terminal in the port of Valencia.

5th May 2008

Marval and MSC end cooperation

5th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

APM Terminals Zeebrugge has been awarded a Crane Productivity Award by APL for its handling of the New World Alliance weekly South China Express (SCX) service.

3rd May 2008

Productivity Award for APM Cranes

3rd May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Hutchison Ports (UK)s deepwater container expansion at Felixstowe appears to be a step nearer after local planners agreed to a variation in the conditions attached to the projects original planning consent.

2nd May 2008

Planners relax conditions for Felixstowe

2nd May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Piraeus Port Authority has lost its legal challenge to have ruled illegal a strike by dockworkers protesting their opposition to the privatisation of container terminals in Greek ports.

24th April 2008

Greek port privatisation resisted by labour

24th April 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

There is no doubt that port security is a growing concern. However, findings by the recent SSR Personnel corporate salary survey, although not specific to the marine industry, show that at the…

22nd April 2008

Responsibility links with opportunity for CSOs

22nd April 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Medcenter Container Terminal at the Italian port of Gioia Tauro reported a 9.2% hike in throughput last year to 3.44m teu, making it the Mediterraneans most important container transhipment hub. 

19th April 2008

Medcenter Mediterranean number one

19th April 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, has officially opened a world-class £ 1.75m port and international trade training facility on the UKs north west coast.

17th April 2008

Real-life £1.75m port training centre launched

17th April 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

The European ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp and Bremerhaven must urgently develop their infrastructure to accommodate rapidly rising traffic, or risk a loss of business, a study by HypoVereinsbank has urged.

16th April 2008

Capacity crisis brewing in north Europe

16th April 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

In 2007, the Eurogate group handled a combined 13.87m teu, which was 10.6% higher than the previous year. Bremerhaven and Hamburg saw traffic rise by 12% to 7.8m teu; Contship Italia reported…

16th April 2008

Eurogate on a roll

16th April 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Planners have given the go-ahead for the second phase of development of Liverpool Intermodal Freeport Terminal (LIFT).

10th April 2008

Planners approve major expansion in warehousing at Liverpool

10th April 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of London handled over 50m tonnes for the seventh consecutive year in 2007, increasing volumes overall by 800,000 tonnes compared with 2006, Port of London Authority (PLA) chairman Simon Sherrard…

10th April 2008

PLA reception

10th April 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

The government of Albania has received a ¢ 500m ($765.6m) proposal to build a new container port at Vlora. This was put forward by an Anglo-Swiss company, Zumax, which also proposes to…

10th April 2008

Albania port proposal

10th April 2008