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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…

Only two companies - Eurotrasac and Terminal Polivalente Portuaria de Sagunto - bid for the concessions to manage the two multipurpose terminals at the port of Sagunto, which reports to Valencia Port…

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…