Europe

The next phase in the revision of the UK’ s British Standard 6349 for Maritime Structures will focus on the design of quay walls, jetties and dolphins. This follows on from the…

The complexities of securing, and working with, European Union funding were highlighted at a Port-Net workshop on port financing, hosted by the Port of Tallinn. Tallinn itself has gained EU funding for…

Kent’ s Thamesport has opened its new East Park Gate complex, or ‘ Gate 2’ , as part of a new development to simplify and improve service levels to hauliers. It claims…

Spanish shipping line Contenemar will move its Canary Islands and Moroccan services from Vigo to a new 44,000 sq metre container terminal at the nearby port of Vilagarcía at the end of…

Port equipment specialist Kalmar has appointed Pekka Vauramo to take its president’ s chair on October 1 2007, after present incumbent Christer Granskog retires. 

PSA has been named as an unexpected partner in Great Yarmouth’ s development plans. 

MSC has announced a wish to operate its own terminal in the port of Las Palmas, where it is currently a shareholder in OPCSA. The shipping line accounted for 50% of the…

The container terminal at the Novorossiysk’ s neighbouring port of Odessa, which is run by a subsidiary of Hamburg Port Consulting, handled 395,563 teu in 2006 compared with 279,812 teu the year…

The governments of Spain and France have issued the first tenders covering seven motorway services between ports on their Atlantic and northern coasts. These are expected to enter into service in 2008…

Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil has acquired port terminal operator Multiterminal for € 25m ($33.8m).

Grupo Boluda Corporacion Maritima confirmed an order for eight rubber-tyred gantry (RTGs) cranes, while Dragados ordered a further six RTGs from Konecranes.

Steel specialist ThyssenKrupp Steel has announced that it will favour Rotterdam when it expands its manufacturing capacities around the world. 

Partial opening of Barcelona’ s El Prat Quay has been put back to mid-2009. This follows the collapse on January 1, 2007 of one third of the 1,500 metre quay line.

Classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has spearheaded a drive to develop a benchmarking system for terminals. 

Personal injury and handling equipment incidents on the quayside are on the up in Europe and the US, as ports struggle to boost capacity to meet the challenge of China.