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NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Canada’s Port Metro Vancouver has moved to block strikes over pay and services by members of the United Truckers Association (UCA) after truck drivers from the union Unifor voted to join in…

3rd March 2014

Vancouver moves to block strike disruption

3rd March 2014

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Work on the new set of locks for the Panama Canal is to “regain a normal pace” after a conceptual agreement was reached by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and contractor Grupo…

3rd March 2014

Panama picks up the pace

3rd March 2014

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

One issue shaping the immediate port landscape in New Zealand is the acquisition by North Island container hub port Tauranga of a 50% stake in the South Island regional port Timaru.

3rd March 2014

Fostering cross-Strait relations

3rd March 2014

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

A total of CAD$47.6m of new funding has been put aside to increase the number of flights to monitor and detect pollution from ships in Canada’s waters.

28th February 2014

Canada works hard to detect pollution

28th February 2014

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Privatisation and acquisition top Australasian port agendas, as Dave and Iain MacIntyre explain

28th February 2014

Riding the concessioning wave

28th February 2014

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Cavotec has won three MoorMaster orders totalling more than €28m for use at lock, roro ferry and bulk handling applications in Australia, Canada and Denmark.

27th February 2014

Cavotec wins largest order yet

27th February 2014

ASIA

ASIA

Two of Manilas largest ports are struggling with backlog created by an expanded truck ban enforced by the government on Monday, and worsened by truckers protests.

27th February 2014

Manila port operations under strain

27th February 2014

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Members of the United Truckers Association (UCA) held a two day strike at the Port Metro Vancouver this week in an attempt to increase the compensation they receive from the trucking companies…

27th February 2014

Truck troubles in Vancouver

27th February 2014

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The Port of San Diego’s new shore-power system is now up and running at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal.

27th February 2014

San Diego powers up ‘green’ initiative

27th February 2014

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Sweden’s Port of Gothenburg’s campaign to save sulphur emissions is making progress. During 2013, 49 vessels took part resulting in a saving of 120 tonnes of sulphur emissions.

27th February 2014

Gothenburg campaigns to save emissions

27th February 2014

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

More than 70 companies from both Europe and China have shown an interest in investing in the free zone attached to the Cuban port of Mariel, west of Havana, which inaugurated its…

26th February 2014

Investors line up behind Mariel industrial zone

26th February 2014

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

The agreement struck with port workers in Chile that ended a 23-day strike could cost the state around $60m in retrospective bonus payments dating back to 2005.

26th February 2014

Counting the cost of the Chilean port strike

26th February 2014

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

The Brazilian ports minister, Antonio Henrique Pinheiro Silveira, believes that the first batch of 29 port concessions – forming block one, covering the port of Santos and ports in Pará – will…

26th February 2014

First new Brazilian port concessions ready in March

26th February 2014

EUROPE

EUROPE

In 2013, both traffic and revenue declined at Spanish ports, following a record year in 2012. Transhipment traffic, in particular, began to seep away, with shipping lines complaining of the high cost…

26th February 2014

Serious questions asked about Spanish transhipment traffic

26th February 2014

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Ports of Auckland has achieved a comparable 70% increase in net profit after tax to NZ$26.4m and 17% lift in revenue to NZ$107.2m for the six months to December 31, 2013.

26th February 2014

Auckland bounces back

26th February 2014

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Lyttelton Port of Christchurch is continually acting after the horse has bolted in its approach to safety, says Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) general secretary Wayne Butson.

26th February 2014

Union criticises port safety process

26th February 2014

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Fremantle Ports has invited expressions of interest to develop and operate a dedicated bulk liquids berth at Kwinana to handle cargoes such as petroleum products, chemicals and liquid fertilisers.

26th February 2014

Fremantle opens liquid berth door

26th February 2014

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is set to spend US$28m on more than 200 green vehicles bringing the number of alternative fuel, environmentally friendly trucks and cars…

26th February 2014

PANYNJ vehicle fleet gets greener

26th February 2014

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

Qatargas-chartered LNG vessels carried out the ‘first’ ship-to-ship (STS) transfer operations of LNG between two Q-Flex type ships.

26th February 2014

Qatargas LNG STS transfer

26th February 2014

THE ANALYST

THE ANALYST

Getting the right policy framework for port development is a complicated challenge.

26th February 2014

Getting port policies right

26th February 2014