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COMMENT: The Dock Workers Union, the union which represents the majority of workers at the port of Mombasa, Kenya, has stated that it now supports the idea of offering a concession to…

18th March 2015

A proposition with handcuffs

18th March 2015

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

State-owned port operator, Indonesia Port Corporation (IPC), is making progress with its NewPriok Container Terminal I in the country’s capital, Jakarta, as shown in a newly released video.

17th March 2015

IPC Jakarta expansion makes progress

17th March 2015

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Dredging giant Van Oord used 2014 to focus on reducing its environmental footprint and will be using 2015 to invest in improving the sustainability of its fleet.

17th March 2015

Green focus for Van Oord

17th March 2015

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

John Bensalhia puts the cases forward for ship-to-shore crane replacement versus upgrade

17th March 2015

Crane of thought

17th March 2015

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Handling cargoes for the construction industry can be a good earner.

16th March 2015

Aggregates payload

16th March 2015

THE STRATEGIST

THE STRATEGIST

COMMENT: do you think it is a wise strategy to curtail talks with a group of influential investors by announcing it to the media, asks Mike Mundy.

16th March 2015

The future is the past

16th March 2015

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

PSA International handled a record 65.4 million teu in 2014 and saw volume growth in most markets, but it wasn’t business as usual, says CEO, Tan Chong Meng.

13th March 2015

PSA beats “business unusual” in 2014

13th March 2015

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

AJ Keyes asks how ports should prepare for the new 8,500 ceu class of car carriers

13th March 2015

On the horizon

13th March 2015

PORT TALK

PORT TALK

Aecom’s Rodrigo Castilho, Krystle McBride, Mark Sisson explain why capacity is never black and white

13th March 2015

A matter of definition

13th March 2015

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

The Lithuanian seaport of Klaipeda is “setting a measure of independence” with a new floating LNG terminal – said to be the first in the Baltic region.

12th March 2015

Lithuania moves in on LNG

12th March 2015

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Liebherr Maritime Cranes is responding to customer needs for larger cargo handling solutions with a new flagship mobile harbour crane with a hybrid power boost.

12th March 2015

Liebherr flagship mobile harbour crane

12th March 2015

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Liebherr Maritime Cranes is responding to customer needs for larger cargo handling solutions in order to efficiently complete future tasks with a new flagship mobile harbour crane.

12th March 2015

New flagship MHC for Liebherr

12th March 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Discharging and logging loaded containers just became easier, quicker and more efficient with a new app which passes handling confirmations to the shipping line during calls.

12th March 2015

Crane Executor app

12th March 2015

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Underwater, floating, sand-filled or rock-strengthened; breakwaters come in all shapes and sizes finds Felicity Landon

12th March 2015

Faster, deeper, cheaper

12th March 2015

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

The Port of Zeebrugge’s Fluxys LNG terminal will support year-round deliveries from the Yamal peninsula to Asian-Pacific markets as part of a new transhipment contract.

11th March 2015

Zeebrugge signs LNG transhipment agreement

11th March 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is to deliver 20 more automatic stacking cranes to DP World London Gateway, which is set for a third berth.

11th March 2015

Kalmar automates London Gateway

11th March 2015

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

COMMENT: Sometimes policy disconnects need to be highlighted. At one extreme, the US West Coast docks have been near paralysed by an emerging infrastructure collapse, with the widely publicised labour difficulties bringing…

11th March 2015

Joining the US infrastructure dots

11th March 2015

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Authorities and the public are watching to see who will be the first to act on green issues, says Martin Rushmere

11th March 2015

Quickest to the draw

11th March 2015

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners has sold Montreal Gateway Terminals (MGT), the leading cargo container facility at Canada’s Port of Montreal, to a consortium that says it’s committed to promoting the port as…

10th March 2015

Morgan Stanley sells Montreal

10th March 2015

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

EU member states need to prioritise inland waterway projects as part of a sustainable transport policy because they have made too slow progress over the last 15 years.

10th March 2015

Prioritising inland waterways

10th March 2015

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

As shipowners work hard to keep in line with the IMO’s new stringent regulations, emissions at the Port of Gothenburg have dramatically fallen by 80% since the beginning of the year.

10th March 2015

Gothenburg sniffs out sulphur emissions

10th March 2015

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Wärtsilä is teaming up with Clean Marine Energy Europe Ltd (CME) to provide a funding solution to help shipowners comply with sulphur emissions legislation through the use of exhaust gas cleaning technology.

9th March 2015

New scrubber finance solution for shipowners

9th March 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Mercator Media Limited, publisher of Port Strategy and GreenPort magazine and organiser of the GreenPort Congress and Cruise conference, has won a business excellence award for international development.

9th March 2015

Business award for Mercator Media

9th March 2015