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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Belgiums Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA) has published a new report on the use and impact of optical character recognition (OCR) technology in container ports and terminals to try to get an…

16th January 2013

PEMA report on OCR technologies in ports

16th January 2013

ASIA

ASIA

Singapore based operator, PSA International, says that its throughput of 60.06m teu was up by 5.2% last year over 2011 – largely thanks to the fact that its flagship PSA Singapore Terminals…

16th January 2013

Singapore spearheads throughput for PSA

16th January 2013

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Mercator Medias 2013 Motorship Propulsion & Emissions Conference is beginning to take shape with the announcement of Japan’s director for International Regulations, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MILT), as keynote…

15th January 2013

P&E Conference taking shape

15th January 2013

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a trucking industry challenge to the Clean Truck Programme at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA), a move that could put the port’s environmental…

15th January 2013

LA’s clean truck programme challenged

15th January 2013

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a trucking industry challenge to the Clean Truck Programme at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA), a move that could put the port’s environmental…

14th January 2013

LA’s clean truck programme challenged

14th January 2013

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Australia’s Port Hedland Port Authority (PHPA) had an outstanding year in 2012 with a number of noteworthy milestones helping to retain its status as the world’s largest bulk export port - but…

14th January 2013

PHPA – big plans in the pipeline

14th January 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Global lifting equipment provider, Konecranes, has developed what it calls the world’s first hybrid reach stacker for container handling.

14th January 2013

Konecranes introduces first hybrid reach stacker

14th January 2013

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Dunkirk’s financial investment programme is set to return to a more standard level in 2013, following a revised budget for 2012 of €139.9m to allow for significant developments on…

13th January 2013

Dunkirk looks at 2013 investments

13th January 2013

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

The Port of Antwerp and ESPO are just two of the key organisations supporting the conference.

11th January 2013

Leading associations support GreenPort Congress 2013

11th January 2013

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

The Port of Antwerp and ESPO are just two of the key organisations supporting the conference.

11th January 2013

Leading associations support GreenPort Congress 2013

11th January 2013

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

MacGregor, part of global cargo handling solution company, Cargotec, has won an order from Chinese Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co Ltd for 16 variable frequency drive (VFD) electric cranes.

10th January 2013

Cargotec cranes for new PIL vessels

10th January 2013

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

DP World is to restructure the way it makes investment in its Indian container terminals.

10th January 2013

DP World to restructure Indian investment

10th January 2013

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

The world did not end on December 21st as the believers in the Mayan calendar believed that it would. So, now the focus should be on economic development and the expectation that…

10th January 2013

End of the world is nigh

10th January 2013

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

According to media reports, the Australian Government is still in dispute over a building tycoon’s plan to build a private bulk commodity port in Kwinana, Western Australia.

9th January 2013

Negotiations continue for Kwinana port plan

9th January 2013

ASIA

ASIA

Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT), a member of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Trust, has just handled its 100m teu after 18 years of transition from small fishing village into one of the…

9th January 2013

YICT hits a new milestone

9th January 2013

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Global paint and coatings business, AkzoNobel, and Taiwanese business, U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation, have become the latest companies to join the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI).

9th January 2013

AkzoNobel and U-Ming Marine join SSI

9th January 2013

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

US company WR Systems has announced further contracts for its Emsys emissions monitoring system, comprising orders from several shipyards in China and Korea as well as retrofits from two scrubber manufacturers.

9th January 2013

Further orders for emissions monitors

9th January 2013

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

Bangladesh’s Rupayan Port and Logistics Services and the UK-based Port Evolution Management are going to develop the country’s first private inland container terminal.

8th January 2013

First Inland Port for Bangladesh

8th January 2013

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Long Beach’s Board of Harbour Commissioners was due to formally approve yesterday a $1.2bn budget for the Middle Harbour terminal expansion project, but it was pulled from the meeting’s…

8th January 2013

POLB continues with infrastructure projects

8th January 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Global lifting equipment provider, Konecranes, has announced that it is terminating its straddle carrier manufacturing unit in Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, as a result of new equipment demand moving towards emerging markets.

7th January 2013

Konecranes to reallocate resources

7th January 2013

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

As part of the global cargo handling solutions company, Cargotec, Kalmar has won a contract to supply three of its E-One² rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) to Container Corporations of India Ltd (Concor).

4th January 2013

Kalmar to supply India with all electric RTGs

4th January 2013

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Hanjin Shipping have singed an agreement to carry out joint research on ship energy efficiency management, in a bid to ensure efficient operations and reduce operating costs.

3rd January 2013

Samsung and Hanjin to research ship efficiency

3rd January 2013

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Drydocks World and Maritime World has reduced its tariff rates for all aspects of business at its subsidiaries Dubai Maritime City (DMC) and Jadaf.

3rd January 2013

Maritime World reduces Dubai tariff rates

3rd January 2013