Europe

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. 

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.