Oceania

Fremantle Ports wants to have 20% of its containers on rail by next year. The port has recorded a 1200% increase in the use of rail since 2002 - about 84,000 teu/year.

Liebherr has finalised a contract with the Port of Tauranga, New Zealand for the supply of a super post panamax container crane, which will have a lift height of 36.2m and an…

Newcastles Port Waratah Coal Services is to invest over A$1bn (US$937m) in an expansion to be completed after 2010, increasing production at the terminal by 40%. It will include new coal-handling equipment,…

Optimising container terminal capacity through new plant and systems development, and adding incremental reclamation through dredgings, are key elements of the Port Development Plan published by Ports of Auckland. Currently handling 773,200…

John Polatz, investor relations director with New Zealand-headquartered Cavotec MSL, believes the newly-signed contract with Denmarks Nordic Ferry Services will prove vital to sales of its vacuum mooring units in Europe.

Victorias newest terminal operation, Port of Gippsland, is expected to be open for business this month. Gippsland Maritime Logistics will run the terminal as a common-user offshore support facility.

Ports of Auckland has said it could potentially sell Queens Wharf with sufficient notice and an appropriate sale price and reinvest in alternative facilities for shipping lines currently use the wharf.

This includes buying cranes and other equipment and expanding the terminal's quay by 149 metres, which will satisfy the company's needs through to 2012.

Cavotec MSL Holdings has achieved a comparable 8.7% rise in after-tax profit to NZ$14 million dollars and 16.9% increase in revenue to NZ$247.3 million for the calendar year to December 31.

The Port of Portland is to take control of its tug, pilot and lines boat operations. The acquisition is seen as ensuring local interests are safeguarded against acquisition by a larger operator…

Ports of Auckland and Sea-Tow parent SeaBiz have launched the SeaFuels joint venture to ensure the ongoing security of fuel supply to Auckland-calling cruise ships and Pacific Islands trading vessels.

Central Queensland Ports Authority (CQPA), which controls the ports of Gladstone and Alma, has changed its name to Gladstone Ports Corporation. The change is part of a plan to become a public…

Ports of Auckland has lost its CMA CGM New Europe Mascarene Oceania (NEMO) round-the-world service call to the Port of Tauranga.

Babcock and Brown Infrastructures Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal phase one upgrade is complete. The terminals capacity has increased from 59m tonnes to 68m tonnes per annum at a cost of $556m.

A northbound Napier port call has been added to the weekly US Lines-ANL service to the United States West Coast. Port of Napier commercial manager Chris Bain said the call opens the…

New Zealands Lyttelton Port Co has recorded a near 10% growth in revenue over the first six months of its 2007/08 financial year.