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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Liebherr Container Cranes will deliver 10 electric rubber-tyred gantry cranes (ERTGs) to Montréal Gateway Terminals Partnership’s (MGT) Cast Terminal and Racine Terminal next year.

16th October 2018

Montréal selects Liebherr cranes

16th October 2018

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

A deal to hand the operation of Iran’s Chabahar Port to India has been sped up after being hampered by a pay dispute and impending US sanctions on Iran.

15th October 2018

Chabahar fast-track to beat US sanctions

15th October 2018

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

The EU Parliament has strengthened ‘polluter pays’ principle for ship waste management during the Port Reception Facilities vote.

15th October 2018

EU backs ‘polluter pays’ ship waste approach

15th October 2018

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Junior staff in port operations are a crushing weak spot for ports as they look to build up their cyber security resilience, a specialist has warned.

15th October 2018

Critical cyber security weakness revealed

15th October 2018

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The Port of Long Beach is to undertake a project to show renewable technology’s effectiveness in providing a clean reliable supply of electricity for operations.

15th October 2018

US port looks to microgrid efficiency

15th October 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

Learning foreign languages could be a means for UK ports to increase trade in light of Brexit, it has been suggested at the British Ports Association Conference 2018.

15th October 2018

Foreign languages could boost UK trade

15th October 2018

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Nova Scotias federal cabinet minister is supporting the Canadian Government’s decision not to fund a major expansion at the Port of Halifax, claiming traffic and proposed land use could be problematic.

11th October 2018

Government rules Halifax expansion unsuitable

11th October 2018

AFRICA GREENPORT

AFRICA GREENPORT

African states have been praised in working together towards meeting international environmental targets by the Maritime Authority of Jamaica’s director general at the fourth meeting of the Association of African Maritime Administrations…

11th October 2018

African states show environmental progress

11th October 2018

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

The Port of Long Beach will build and demonstrate a US$7.1m ‘microgrid’ to show the renewable technology’s effectiveness in providing a clean, reliable supply of electricity for critical operations.

10th October 2018

Long Beach to show microgrid efficiency

10th October 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

The UK’s export-import imbalance — when the nation’s ports have invested hundreds of millions of pounds into boosting capacity and the country is facing threats to global trade from protectionism — is…

10th October 2018

Trade imbalance a “wasted opportunity”

10th October 2018

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Ports of Jersey has a new port management system which aims to optimise the efficiency of daily operations and improve the accuracy of customer communications.

10th October 2018

Port management system improves operations

10th October 2018

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has led a multi-agency Joint Oil Spill Exercise (JOSE) to test and demonstrate Singapores readiness to respond to oil spills at sea.

9th October 2018

Oil spill exercise tests responsiveness

9th October 2018

AFRICA

AFRICA

Construction on the new container terminal at the Port of Walvis Bay in Namibia is more than 85% complete, leading the port closer towards its goal of speeding up global transit, meeting…

9th October 2018

Nambia container terminal nearly complete

9th October 2018

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is to form a working group to undertake an industry road mapping exercise to prepare the Singapore bunker industry for a more sustainable future.

5th October 2018

Road mapping targets bunkering sustainability

5th October 2018

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of San Diego has handled calls from 17 ships following a cyber security attack which disabled its IT systems last month.

5th October 2018

San Diego back up to speed

5th October 2018

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

The 2018 edition of the GreenPort Cruise & Congress conference Europe will not be welcoming any plastic.

5th October 2018

A plastic free GreenPort Congress 2018

5th October 2018

AFRICA

AFRICA

Terminals at Lagos Port Complex are becoming congested with overtime cargo containers because owners do not have the financial means to move them.

4th October 2018

Container congestion at Lagos terminals

4th October 2018

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

Shell has delivered its first ship-to-ship bunkering of LNG from its specialised LNG bunker vessel, Cardissa, paving the way for other future operations from the vessel.

4th October 2018

Shell and Sovcomflot LNG bunkering firsts

4th October 2018

ASIA

ASIA

China has blocked a US warship from making a port call this month in Hong Kong in the midst of increasing tension between the two nations over trade and the US’ sanctioning…

4th October 2018

China halts USN port call in Hong Kong

4th October 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

There was strong opposition to free ports during the Labour Party Conference near the end of September, with the concept being described as “job-destroying”.

4th October 2018

Labour conference sees free port opposition

4th October 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Newcastle chief executive Craig Carmody has said that the Australian facility is still committed to a container terminal at the port — despite the Government of New South Wales…

4th October 2018

Roadblock to Newcastle container development

4th October 2018

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Brazilian mining and transport company Vale is on the verge of abandoning its Vale Pecém installations at São Gonçalo do Amarante in the state of Ceará after just two years, given a…

4th October 2018

Vale set to pull out of Pecém

4th October 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

María Luisa Guibert, president of Algeposa, has said that recent figures released by Ports of the State clearly show that Spanish ports are beginning to recover from the downturn many have experienced…

4th October 2018

Spanish ports industry in recovery

4th October 2018