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NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Cargo volume dropped 3.5% in November at the Port of Long Beach as restrictive tariffs continued to affect the national supply chain.

11th December 2019

Trade war hits Californian port

11th December 2019

THE ANALYST

THE ANALYST

COMMENT: In drafting port policies and assessing the benefits of investments in port development, we often stress the link between better ports and export competitiveness, writes Peter de Langen.

10th December 2019

Ports and export competitiveness

10th December 2019

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

COMMENT: For many years, stakeholders in the U.S. ports business have been seeking to unlock some of the stranded money in the Harbor Maintenance trust Fund - some $9 billion sitting in…

10th December 2019

Get loud…to be heard

10th December 2019

THE STRATEGIST

THE STRATEGIST

Another round of musical chairs appears to be underway in the Mediterranean transhipment business, writes Mike Mundy.

10th December 2019

MED’ TRANSHIPMENT MERRY GO ROUND…

10th December 2019

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

Over 50 expert speakers from the world’s leading companies in the ports, terminals, renewable energy, shipping, fuels, technology and policy sectors presented at this year’s conference.

10th December 2019

You can still download the papers and presentations from GreenPort Cruise & Congress 2019

10th December 2019

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

COMMENT: Is there any real benefit in having a political appointee sitting at the top of a port authority? It is a system that has been around for years but in today’s…

10th December 2019

Political appointees – past their sell by date

10th December 2019

EUROPE

EUROPE

A big UK port operator has confirmed it is in the “process of a major restructure” involving compulsory and voluntary redundancies.

9th December 2019

UK port operator in “major restructure”

9th December 2019

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

DP World Sokhna recently entered into a trilateral partnership to serve as the hub for all construction material imports needed to build the central business and financial district of Egypt’s new administrative…

9th December 2019

DP World Sokhna enters trilateral partnership

9th December 2019

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A port corporation in Australia has denied it has breached competition law after the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) started legal action against it in its first case taken under the…

9th December 2019

Port corporation denies market power misuse

9th December 2019

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

CMA CGM has chosen a French port as a refuelling hub for its future LNG-powered 15,000-TEU vessels.

9th December 2019

French port to be LNG refuelling hub

9th December 2019

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

A container terminal facility has become the first in South China to offer shore power at all berths.

6th December 2019

Shore power leader emerges in South China

6th December 2019

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

A container terminal facility has become the first in South China to offer shore power at all berths.

6th December 2019

Shore power leader emerges in South China

6th December 2019

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

Australian fairy terns will have a safe sanctuary at a port in western Australia this summer breeding season.

6th December 2019

Safe sanctuary for birds opens

6th December 2019

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

A project is helping help ports in southwestern Europe to minimise the effects of climate change on their infrastructures and operations.

5th December 2019

Project helps ports deal with climate change

5th December 2019

AFRICA

AFRICA

A global terminal operator has initiated the circa US100m second phase expansion of its terminal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

5th December 2019

US100m container expansion project begins

5th December 2019

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is committing up to CAD$300m in financing for a new container terminal in the country.

5th December 2019

CAD$300m for port project

5th December 2019

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

Global expansion and influence by Chinese port companies is not as significant as the hype that surrounds it, a maritime consultancy has said.

4th December 2019

Chinese influence overhyped, says Drewry

4th December 2019

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

New Zealand plans to sign up to new international maritime regulations to reduce ship emissions and lift air quality around ports and harbours, associate transport minister Julie Anne Genter has announced.

4th December 2019

NZ commits to reducing ship emissions

4th December 2019

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

A subsidiary of DP World has acquired a majority stake in a Singapore-based feeder and shortsea operator.

4th December 2019

DP World subsidiary makes acquisition

4th December 2019

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

Ports need flexibility in any sustainability-focused regulation that follows the European Parliament’s (EP) declaration of a climate emergency in Europe and globally.

3rd December 2019

Flexibility needed for climate emergency

3rd December 2019