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ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

PAO NOVATEK and Fluxys have signed a land lease agreement with Germany’s Rostock Port to build an LNG transhipment terminal to help it promote LNG to a wider market.

18th October 2018

LNG transhipment terminal for Germany

18th October 2018

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has joined SEALNG, the multi-sector industry coalition aiming to accelerate the widespread adoption of LNG as a marine fuel.

18th October 2018

Singapore port joins SEALNG coalition

18th October 2018

GREENPORT CONGRESS GREENPORT

GREENPORT CONGRESS GREENPORT

Climate initiatives including the World Ports Climate Action Program and the World Ports Sustainability Programme took centre stage at the first day of the GreenPort Congress being held in Valencia.

18th October 2018

Port climate initiatives take the stage

18th October 2018

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

A UK civil and environmental engineering company is to develop a habitat creation scheme on the River Thames at Rainham Marshes, the largest project of its type in the London area.

17th October 2018

Thames habitat creation scheme

17th October 2018

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The US Port of Wilmington will be one winner under America’s newly approved water infrastructure bill which could authorise more than US$6 billion to improve the nation’s ports, dams, harbours and other…

17th October 2018

Ports to benefit from new US water bill

17th October 2018

EUROPE

EUROPE

The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has welcomed an EU proposal set to better protect the marine environment by boosting the amounts of waste delivered at ports.

16th October 2018

ESPO backs ‘polluter pays’ proposal

16th October 2018

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Lifting equipment firm Konecranes has netted a 54-crane deal for construction of the Khalifa Port Container Terminal (KPCT), plus an order for the Mediterranean’s largest-ever mobile harbour crane.

16th October 2018

Konecranes secures 54-crane order

16th October 2018

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A world where container logistics companies never touch a physical container, nor own or operate a single ship, terminal or container handling machine: that’s a future scenario considered by cargo handling solutions…

16th October 2018

Kalmar offers vision of supply chain future

16th October 2018

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