Europe

The Panamanian government is due to issue a tender in 2005 for a mega-port at the Pacific mouth of the Panama Canal costing US$600m.

DVB Bank has closed a € 71m investment project with new Irish port operator, Multi-Link Terminals Ltd (MLT). The transaction relates to MLTs container terminal operations in Helsinki and Kotka in Finland…

Cadiz is investing € 91m in infrastructure upgrades during the period 20032008.

LOCATION PROJECT STATUS THAMES Tilbury Container ABP/Forth Ports (FP)/P& O Ports TCS recently installed second berth, new gantry cranes and railhead totalling £ 50m.

Chemion Logistik has inaugurated a new container terminal at Bayer Chemiepark in the city of Leverkusen.

Half the available plots at Fos Distriport - the Port of Marseilles logistics zone being developed alongside the existing Fos container terminal - have now been taken following the sale of 9.5…

Union general secretary Trevor Hanson says a sudden flood of requests for imported labour in other industries indicates a concerted campaign to "open the New Zealand labour market up to sweatshop-style conditions".The…

COSCO Pacific Limited is buying a 25% shareholding in P& O Ports new container terminal, Antwerp Gateway.

Rotterdam's container movements jumped by more than 12% to 9.3m TEUs whilst Antwerp registered 6.5m TEUs up nearly 7% on the previous year.Le Havre port authority and stevedores Generale de Manutention Portuaire…

Belgium and the US have agreed to co-ordinate security at Belgian ports to detect illicit trafficking in nuclear and radioactive material. The US government will invest € 11.25m in the next three…

Germany's DVD Bank is also participating in the transaction in syndication.Portugal's Setubal and Sesimbra port authority and the Tersado and Sadaport companies have signed concession contracts covering zones one and two of…

Whether known as hurricane or typhoon, we are all too familiar with these most ferocious of storms and their consequences: damage, destruction and, for some unfortunate souls, death.Maritime and Underwater Security Consultants…

P& O Ports and CMA CGM have signed a 36-year concession with the Port Authority of Le Havre to equip and operate two berths as part of the first phase of the…