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The CCTV system includes numerous dome cameras, providing high-quality digital images via a wireless WiMAX LAN, which spans an area around the port of over 10 sq km. Dragados has awarded KCI…

Savona port authority in Italy has received three bids to operate a multipurpose terminal at Vado Ligure, which will handle both liquid bulk and containers.

An area of 250,000 sq m will be reclaimed from the sea, giving the terminal alongside draught of 15 metres-20 metres. In all, 200,000 sq m will be dedicated to container handling…

A feasibility study undertaken on behalf of Ravenna Port Authority has shown that it would be both financially and technically possible to justify deepening the draught of the port to 14.5 metres.

The Port of Rotterdam handled 186m tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2006, 1.1% more than in the first half of 2005.

Gioia Tauro has taken delivery of what it claims are the largest cranes in the Mediterranean.

Robin MacLeod, technical director at DCT Gdansk in Poland, has told Port Strategy that terminal automation in Poland will only become an option when Polish wages increase substantially, or when it proves…

Further expansion is required in order to meet future demand and the aim, in respect of the Kotka project, is to add container terminal equipment equivalent to a capacity of up to…

DP World is said to be considering the possibility of floating P& O Ports on both the London Stock Exchange and Dubai International Financial Centre less than 12 months after acquiring it.…

The Overseas Shippers Association has been taking part in trials to track containers using a device called TripLock, supplied by UK-based telematics company Aeromark.

Senator Lines has accused Italys ports of failing to invest adequately in terminal and hinterland infrastructure. Chief executive Hans-Hermann Mohr said that, with notable exceptions such as Contship, PSA and Cosco, investment…

The Port of Valencia is expected to issue a tender in the second quarter of 2008 for a fifth container terminal.

International Port Holdings (IPH) has won a public procurement process to become the preferred partner for the development and operation of the existing Great Yarmouth river port and its new outer harbour…

Interested parties will have to partially finance construction of the facility, although public investment of ?396.3m is also earmarked.Port facilities on the Thames handled 53.8m tonnes of cargo in 2005, an increase…

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has received six proposals for operation of a 138 ha container terminal on Maasvlakte 2.