Europe

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EUROPE

Drewry’s latest Container Forecaster paints a far more positive picture for the industry in 2010, but there are still some areas of concern that could spoil the party quite quickly.

22nd July 2010

Its not business as usual quite yet

22nd July 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Terminal 2 at Malta Freeport is to be expanded. The North Quay will be extended from 480 metres to 668 metres and the West Quay from 118 metres to 312 metres. The…

16th July 2010

Malta Freeport expansion

16th July 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

A tender has been issued for the transfer of Riga Port from the city centre to the nearby Russian island of Krievu sala.

14th July 2010

Riga port on the move

14th July 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

The UK’s Department of Transport has published provisional statistics on freight traffic at its major ports which shows, at best, ports suffering from a slight fall with exports helping figures somewhat.

12th July 2010

UK port traffic picture hazy

12th July 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Piraeus Port Authority reported a loss of €33.6m ($41.4m) last year compared with a profit of €5.6m ($6.9m) in 2008. The deep recession being experienced by Greece is also dramatically cutting the…

11th July 2010

Recession hits Piraeus

11th July 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Teesport has announced an expansion of its container facility from its current capacity of 235,000 teu to 450,000 teu. However, this first phase could be scaled up to almost double the present…

11th July 2010

UK box port set to expand

11th July 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Peel Ports chief executive Stephen Baxter has left the company ‘with immediate effect’, an internal company announcement has confirmed.

1st July 2010

Peel Ports boss ‘has left with immediate effect’

1st July 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

An agreement has been signed that brings a wide ranging and international group of port clusters together with Valencia port to examine best practice issues.

23rd June 2010

International ports confirm commitment to cluster study

23rd June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

This weeks UK Budget announced funding to waive £175m of backdated business rates demands that had been levied on ports businesses.

23rd June 2010

UK budget brings backdated rates reprieve

23rd June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

With 101 proposals received by the call deadline, the third Marco Polo II call for project proposals has attracted a record number of submissions in 2010, beating all previous calls since its…

23rd June 2010

Marco Polo call passes landmark

23rd June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

The claim by Ukrtranscontainer (UTC) against the Ukrainian Government for investment rights violation is moving into the European Court of Human Rights.

23rd June 2010

Ukrtranscontainer will have its day in court

23rd June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

A recent spate of takeover bids for the UKs Forth Ports has come to an end, with would-be suitor Northstream withdrawing a last-ditch attempt to secure the interest of Forth’s board with…

16th June 2010

No more bids for Forth Ports – for now

16th June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) has acquired a 25% stake in Belgium’s multi-user Zeebrugge box terminal from APM Terminals (APMT), for €27.16m ($33.7m).

16th June 2010

Zeebrugge terminal share goes to SIPG

16th June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

An exclusive market report by Trelleborg Marine Systems and Port Strategy magazine reveals that 75% of downtime in many ports is unscheduled and likely to be costing the industry large amounts of…

10th June 2010

Operators struggle to tackle excessive downtime

10th June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Russian ports may see container traffic rise by 3% to 7% in 2010, despite a disproportionately high boost in throughput in the first quarter. For the first three months, tonnage handled rose…

5th June 2010

Russian box traffic in the ascendency

5th June 2010

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EUROPE

In the future there will be pressure to make whole transport systems change, adapt and improve, but “policy innovation is less discussed, and perhaps is the greatest challenge for us”, said Jack…

3rd June 2010

The evolution of global transport

3rd June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Vilagarcía Port Authority is winding up the concession awarded to Tercovi to operate the ports container terminal. The process was begun in October following the non-fulfilment of both concession conditions and infractions…

2nd June 2010

Contenemar terminal to close in Vilagarcía

2nd June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Southern Europe gateway ports have generally fared better than a lot of the transhipment ports in the downturn, observes Roman Poersch of Wilhelm Borchert GmbH.

2nd June 2010

Looking south-east

2nd June 2010

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EUROPE

In one sense, operations in southern Europe can be seen as a game of two halves, as those ports with captive customers and feeder and ro-ro links to Africa are doing better…

1st June 2010

A game of two halves

1st June 2010

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EUROPE

Ukraines anti-monopoly committee has fined the state-owned Yuzhny (Southern) commercial seaport $125,000 for abuse of monopoly position in the provision of safe navigation services.

1st June 2010

Yuzhny fined for anti-competitive practices

1st June 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Felixstowe has announced an 8% cut in its carbon emissions in 2009. The amount of carbon dioxide was reduced from 19.8kg to 19kg in 2009 alone, and the port…

30th May 2010

Lower emissions from Felixstowe

30th May 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Italian government has approved draft legislation that will reform the structure of Italian ports.

29th May 2010

Italian port reform to go ahead

29th May 2010

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EUROPE

Portugals Public Ministry has stated that legislation put forward in 2008 allowing the Liscont concession at Alcântara Dock to be extended until 2042 was unconstitutional.

28th May 2010

Liscont legality questions continue

28th May 2010