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PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

A carbon capture company has received the UK Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2017.

4th May 2017

Queens Award for carbon capture company

4th May 2017

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The House and Senate leadership has released the FY 2017 Omnibus Funding Agreement, which includes increased or level funding for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery…

4th May 2017

US omnibus funding will benefit ports

4th May 2017

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Saqr Port Authority has signed a contract for two Liebherr mobile harbour cranes LHM 800, in bulk handling configuration.

4th May 2017

Saqr orders cranes for bulk operation

4th May 2017

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

A company which develops and manufactures pump and oil spill response solutions is aiming to use its expertise to help strengthen technologies and partnerships with local governments and businesses to help turn…

3rd May 2017

Managing marine debris

3rd May 2017

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The British Ports Association (BPA) has expressed its concern over the restrictions that designated Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and stricter regulations may place on the growth and business of ports.

2nd May 2017

MPAs restrict growth, warns BPA

2nd May 2017

EUROPE

EUROPE

State president Torsten Albig has approved €9.9m in funding for the expansion of Kiel’s Ostuferhafen.

2nd May 2017

Kiel Ostuferhafen expansion enters fifth phase

2nd May 2017

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Tyre handling specialist Just Easy Tools has made a two-tonne version of its unique Easy Gripper, called Easy Gripper 2400-2T.

2nd May 2017

Popular tyre handler goes OTR

2nd May 2017

AFRICA

AFRICA

Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS) has announced its support for a Tanzania government agricultural mechanisation and development project with a TSh327m (US$146,400) storage waiver for a shipment of unassembled tractors.

2nd May 2017

TICTS supports agricultural development project

2nd May 2017

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

The International Transport Forum (ITF) has made a number of suggestions for policy in Buenos Aires in its Draft Discussion Paper 2017.

2nd May 2017

ITF offers policy suggestions for Buenos Aires

2nd May 2017

ASIA

ASIA

Fast growing inbound trade is just one of the many factors causing port congestion at China’s major ports. Other factors include bad weather, the restructuring of alliance networks, ever-bigger ships and shippers’…

2nd May 2017

Drewry: get used to congestion in China

2nd May 2017

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

The Danish, Norwegian and Singapore maritime authorities have agreed to champion the use of e-certificates (e-certs) for the shipping community as part of a drive to digitalise the shipping industry, reduce administrative…

27th April 2017

Ships go green with e-certs

27th April 2017

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

Singapore LNG Corporation Pte Ltd (SLNG) and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) have jointly launched Singapore’s first LNG truck loading facility.

26th April 2017

Singapore opens first LNG truck facility

26th April 2017

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

India’s Essar Group has apparently won a bid to set up a 1 million tonne LNG terminal at Haldia port in West Bengal.

26th April 2017

Essar wins bid for Haldia LNG terminal

26th April 2017

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kalmar has signed a contract to deliver new ship-to-shore (STS) cranes to Rotterdam Short Sea Terminal (RST) by the end of 2018. The deal includes two wide-span monobox STS cranes, plus the…

26th April 2017

Kalmar extends relationships with new orders

26th April 2017

EUROPE

EUROPE

Sixty-six ships calling at terminals on the Thames qualified for the UK’s first port charge discount for cleaner ships in the first three months of 2017, including car carriers, container ships and…

26th April 2017

Positive take up of ‘green’ discount

26th April 2017

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Far fewer ships than expected have made the passage from the expanded Panama Canal to US ports due to “insufficient operational resources” within the Panama Canal, the International Organisation of Masters, Mates…

26th April 2017

Canal expansion fails to meet expectations

26th April 2017

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The UK’s Port of London Authority (PLA) says that there’s been a positive early uptake of its green discount on port charges.

25th April 2017

London’s getting greener

25th April 2017

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

Safety and environmental risk expert, RightShip, is the latest company to join The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI), the collective group working together to help create a more environmentally sustainable maritime industry by…

21st April 2017

A collective voice in sustainability

21st April 2017

GPCA

GPCA

Safety and environmental risk expert, RightShip, is the latest company to join The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI), the collective group working together to help create a more environmentally sustainable maritime industry by…

21st April 2017

A collective voice in sustainability

21st April 2017

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

Koen Overtoom, CEO since December 2016, will share the ‘Sustainability ambitions and challenges of the port of Amsterdam’. The port of Amsterdam is one of the largest energy ports in Europe and…

21st April 2017

Port of Amsterdam CEO confirmed to give keynote address at 2017 GreenPort Congress

21st April 2017