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ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

Genoa Port in Italy is set to benefit from a €8 million ship to shore power project to help it meet EU environmental sustainability standards.

3rd April 2018

Ship to shore power contract for Port of Genoa

3rd April 2018

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Building partnerships with stakeholders will be a key topic at the GreenPort Congress Conference America.

3rd April 2018

Partnerships a focus of GreenPort Congress America

3rd April 2018

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The Port of Long Beach has received a US$9.7 million grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate zero-emissions cargo handling equipment.

3rd April 2018

Port of Long Beach plans zero emissions long term

3rd April 2018

GPCA

GPCA

Peter has more than 25 years of experience in the environmental sector working in municipal, state, and federal government agencies, NGO’s and now the private and academic sectors. He has a background…

3rd April 2018

Peter May

3rd April 2018

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Gulftainer Group has reached a preliminary agreement with the State of Delaware to lease the Port of Wilmington Delaware from the Diamond State Port Corporation (DSPC).

3rd April 2018

Preliminary Gulftainer Wilmington lease

3rd April 2018

GPCA

GPCA

Destiny Watford fought alongside her community to stop the nation's largest trash-burning incinerator from being built in her neighborhood. Now she continues to fight for her community's future by creating a community…

3rd April 2018

Destiny Watford

3rd April 2018

GPCA

GPCA

Richard D. “Rick” Cameron is the Managing Director of Planning and Environmental Affairs for the Port of Long Beach, California, named to the post in January 2014 by the Long Beach Board…

3rd April 2018

Richard D. Cameron

3rd April 2018

AFRICA

AFRICA

Qatar and Sudan have made a $4bn deal to develop Sudan’s second-biggest port, Suakin, located in the northeast of the country.

29th March 2018

Qatar and Sudan to develop Suakin port

29th March 2018

AFRICA

AFRICA

DP World confirmed it hasn’t received a purchase offer for its 33% stake in Doraleh Container Terminal following state-controlled Djibouti Ports and Free Zone Authority’s (DPFZA) claim that it is prepared to…

29th March 2018

DP World: No Doraleh offer made

29th March 2018

GPCA

GPCA

Kurt Nagle has over 30 years of experience in Washington, DC, related to seaports and international trade. Since 1995, Mr. Nagle has served as President and Chief Executive Officer for the American…

29th March 2018

Kurt Nagle

29th March 2018

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

An integrated systems manufacturers is reporting high levels of interest in its oil spill monitoring buoys following several recent port and harbour installations in the Middle East.

29th March 2018

Oil spill monitoring buoys gain notoriety

29th March 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

Like it or not, Brexit continues to dominate the agenda for the UK ports sector, reports Felicity Landon

29th March 2018

Getting over the ‘B’ word in the UK

29th March 2018

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

While they may not steal the limelight for most visible port assets, fenders form the backbone of quay protection, finds Alex Hughes

29th March 2018

Safeguarding the ship to shore interface

29th March 2018

THE STRATEGIST

THE STRATEGIST

COMMENT: Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya, and James Macharia, transport cabinet secretary, have been piling the pressure on Catherine Mturi-Wairi, managing director of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), to achieve greater freight…

29th March 2018

Fair and proper process the only way

29th March 2018

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Apprenticeships or graduates? Felicity Landon considers the way forward in the ports industry

29th March 2018

Training – to what degree?

29th March 2018

CARGO SPOTLIGHT

CARGO SPOTLIGHT

COMMENT: A number of recent fatalities resulting from mobile equipment accidents have again highlighted the need to improve traffic management in terminals, writes Laurence Jones.

29th March 2018

Easy wins for traffic management

29th March 2018

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Stevie Knight discovers that ports are, sometimes unwittingly, in the front line when it comes to cyber attacks

29th March 2018

Invisible enemy at the port gate

29th March 2018

ASIA

ASIA

Some - but not all - of the region’s potential will live up to its promise, writes Stevie Knight

29th March 2018

Southeast Asia awash with possibilities

29th March 2018

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Ports need to marry onshore passage planning with the plans completed by calling ships to prevent incidents.

29th March 2018

Dangers of mismatched passage plans

29th March 2018

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Barry Parker explains the financial strategies for ports caught in strategic crosshairs of lower trade flows and increased bargaining power on the carrier side

29th March 2018

Coping with shifting operational sands

29th March 2018

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Protectionist levies could have far reaching effects for America’s ports, finds Martin Rushmere

29th March 2018

Trump’s tariffs hang heavy on US ports

29th March 2018

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

COMMENT: The conference season is in full bloom in the States with ‘disruption’ seemingly the topic of the day, writes Barry Parker

29th March 2018

Changing data sharing paradigms

29th March 2018

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

COMMENT: In 1970, Sonya Gandhi, former president of the Indian National Congress, presented two Indian elephants - Sony and Lanka - to former Yugoslavia President Josip Broz Tito at his Summer Residence…

29th March 2018

Zagreb Pier: White elephant?

29th March 2018