News

AFRICA GREENPORT

AFRICA GREENPORT

During the 3rd Annual Africa Ports, Logistics & Supply Chain Conference in Ghana, Reik Mueller, APM Terminals’ Director of Business Development and Infrastructure Investments for the Africa-Middle East Region described a new…

21st March 2012

Moving goods efficiently to inland cities

21st March 2012

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

The provisional programme for the 7th GreenPort Congress will be released shortly.

21st March 2012

2012 Call for Papers now closed

21st March 2012

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Applied oceanography specialists Tidetech will be demonstrating significant fuel saving results on a recent route optimisation trial at the Green Ship Technology (GST) conference in Copenhagen this week.

20th March 2012

Oceanographic optimisation fuels efficiency

20th March 2012

AFRICA GREENPORT

AFRICA GREENPORT

Transnet’s plans to expand the container berths in Durban Harbour have met with ecological concern because the area is seen to be one of the country’s most important fish nurseries.

20th March 2012

Fishy concerns over Durban expansion

20th March 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Launched in 1998, the Port of Salalah has established itself as one of the key transhipment hubs in the West Central Asian region and ranks among the top-30 container ports in the…

20th March 2012

Flying the hub flag

20th March 2012

EUROPE

EUROPE

There seems to be an air of animosity surrounding development work at the UK port city of Liverpool due to contested public funding, but confusion has meant Peel’s projects have been tarred…

19th March 2012

Public subsidy generates animosity in Liverpool

19th March 2012

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Peel Ports in the UK has commenced procurement for the new deep water container terminal being built at the Port of Liverpool.

19th March 2012

Procurement begins at Liverpool

19th March 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

The demands of mega-container ships are heralding a “New Era” of challenge for box hub ports.

19th March 2012

The heart of the matter

19th March 2012

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Technological advancements could improve testy port operator-customs relations, as John Bensalhia discovers

16th March 2012

Co-ordinating customs checks

16th March 2012

EUROPE

EUROPE

Five UK dock workers have been killed in as many months when the average is normally no more than two deaths per year – so the big question is why have health…

16th March 2012

Dock worker death surge in UK

16th March 2012

EUROPE

EUROPE

Three major European ports, Hamburg, Antwerp and Rotterdam, have said they are satisfied with the European Parliament’s ‘sulphur emissions’ resolution, which goes beyond the IMO regulations.

15th March 2012

Largest EU ports support moves on sulphur

15th March 2012

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Port Strategy has learned that contractor concerns over ‘unscrupulous’ liquidation practices going on at ports equipment suppliers may be no more than a storm in a teacup.

15th March 2012

Unscrupulous liquidation processes questioned

15th March 2012

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The Ports of Auckland (POAL) is suffering a backlash of picketing having announced that it will be introducing ‘competitive stevedoring’ at its Fergusson and Bledisloe container terminal operations.

15th March 2012

Auckland pickets over contract work

15th March 2012

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Three major European ports, Hamburg, Antwerp and Rotterdam, have said they are satisfied with the European Parliament’s ‘sulphur emissions’ resolution, which goes beyond the IMO regulations.

15th March 2012

Largest EU ports support moves on sulphur

15th March 2012

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Italian city of Pisa is the latest European city to join an initiative that aims to enhance the role of inland waterway transport and set up better dialogue between port and…

15th March 2012

Pisa helps enhance inland waterway role

15th March 2012

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The Port of Albany expansion has taken an early step forward as the feasibility study has closed before schedule - and on budget.

14th March 2012

Port Albany project moves forward

14th March 2012

ASIA

ASIA

Indonesia must quickly expand and modernise its ports to keep up with a recent trade boom, the country’s trade minister has said.

14th March 2012

Urgent Indonesian port growth needed

14th March 2012

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The Israeli port of Ashdod has confirmed that for every eight hour shift worked, two crane operators are employed to work each crane.

14th March 2012

Controversy surrounds Israeli crane operators

14th March 2012

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The recent tension between Iraq and Kuwait over the latters project to construct Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port close to the border with Iraq seems to have abated.

14th March 2012

Iraqi tensions abate over new Kuwait port

14th March 2012

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Saudi Ports Authority has placed contracts worth $133m to develop and maintain its ports.

14th March 2012

Saudis place port development contracts

14th March 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Are the costs associated with an in-house terminal operating system justified? Felicity Landon reports

14th March 2012

Jack of all trades

14th March 2012

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

Congestion is back in the East African ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and to informed observers this comes as no surprise.

14th March 2012

Lethal cocktail

14th March 2012

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

In this article, Dr. Padideh Guetzkow Moini from Siemens looks at how in 2009, Siemens’ customers worldwide were able to reduce their CO2 emissions by a total of 210m tonnes using solutions…

13th March 2012

Siemens – intermodality for sustainable solutions

13th March 2012