Europe

Port equipment specialist Kalmar has appointed Pekka Vauramo to take its president’ s chair on October 1 2007, after present incumbent Christer Granskog retires. 

PSA has been named as an unexpected partner in Great Yarmouth’ s development plans. 

MSC has announced a wish to operate its own terminal in the port of Las Palmas, where it is currently a shareholder in OPCSA. The shipping line accounted for 50% of the…

DP World has promoted Patrick Walters to the position of senior vice president and managing director for its fast-growing Europe and North Africa region. Mr Walters has been with DP World and,…

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.

Steel specialist ThyssenKrupp Steel has announced that it will favour Rotterdam when it expands its manufacturing capacities around the world. 

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 Infrastructure & Transport Department of the Valencia regional government has issued a tender in respect of the initial phase of construction of the northern road access to the Port of Valencia.…

IHC Holland Merwede is anticipating a 35% increase in turnover this year on the back on improved results from its dredging, offshore and marine businesses. In a booming year, the companys sales…

The European Federation of Inland Ports and the European Sea Ports Organisation are to establish a Platform of European Sea and Inland Ports to strengthen co-operation between both organisations.

Few now appear to doubt the future strategic importance of what will be Germany’ s only deep-water container terminal: the idea, once scoffed at, appears to have literally grown on Germans.