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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Cargotec has won a major port automation contract in the US.

19th October 2011

Cargotec do US port automation

19th October 2011

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

Any senior manager who feels satisfied with the risk management system in his or her port almost certainly needs to think again - big is on the agenda and ports need to…

19th October 2011

The behemoth in the basin

19th October 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Iraqs long-awaited reconstruction boom has yet to materialise, as Karen Thomas discovers

19th October 2011

A market in waiting

19th October 2011

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

It can be argued that too much belt tightening may not be a good thing: we can see a parallel with the fiscal measures used to fight excess debt at the sovereign…

19th October 2011

The medicine that damages the patient

19th October 2011

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Poor administration of the port of Paranaguá during a period of government ownership led to $11.28bn in losses for local producers, particularly those in the agriculture sector, a local economist has calculated.

19th October 2011

Paranaguá costs state producers $11bn in losses

19th October 2011

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Bolivariana do Portos and China Harbour Engineering Company have signed a $520m contract to build a container terminal at the Venezuelan port of Cabello.

19th October 2011

Chinese to build Puerto Cabello terminal

19th October 2011

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Asciano, the parent company of Patrick Stevedore, has told investors that the company has recovered some of the market share it lost 18 months ago.

19th October 2011

Patrick parent back on track

19th October 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The UK’s new global shipping port and logistics centre project, London Gateway, will open at the end of 2013, owners DP World have announced.

18th October 2011

Green London Gateway to open in 2013

18th October 2011

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Regional projects that target the transhipment market have slowed in the last two years.

18th October 2011

Timing new transhipment

18th October 2011

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A long-term and high-level strategic view of how the Auckland seaport could develop in five-year increments through to 2055 has been released by Ports of Auckland in conjunction with Waterfront Auckland.

18th October 2011

Auckland concept drawings unveiled

18th October 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Describing 2009 as “a year we would rather forget”, Lars Oestergaard Nielsen, managing director UAE, Qatar, Oman & Iran, Maersk Line has called on the ports industry to help it level out…

17th October 2011

Maersk calls ports to the table

17th October 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Rotterdam’s port handles more freight than almost any other facility outside of China – but this comes at a cost of increased emissions.

17th October 2011

GE Energy project to reduce emissions at Rotterdam Port

17th October 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Trelleborg Marine Systems has secured a new contract to supply Super Cone Fenders and Tee Head bollards to Salerno Port in Italy.

17th October 2011

Trelleborg secures new contract with Salerno Port

17th October 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Rotterdam’s port handles more freight than almost any other facility outside of China – but understandably, this comes at a cost of increased emissions.

17th October 2011

GE Energy reduce emissions at Rotterdam

17th October 2011

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Regional giant Saudi Arabia lacks modern port capacity for a country of its size, location and wealth.

17th October 2011

The sleeping giant that is Saudi Arabia

17th October 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

The Algerian government has issued a tender for a new port to be located between Algiers and Ténès, some 200 km to the east.

17th October 2011

Algerian sea port tender

17th October 2011

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

As Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) processes what is due to be the largest single corporate insurance claim in the Southern Hemisphere, other local ports are also feeling the ramifications of the…

17th October 2011

Lyttelton insurance costs mount

17th October 2011

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The focus of Middle East port development has shifted from transhipment capacity to addressing specific domestic bottlenecks. Karen Thomas reports

16th October 2011

Shifting sands

16th October 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Following a stellar 2010, global volumes of sea-air cargo have declined this year.

15th October 2011

Dip in demand just a blip

15th October 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

It’s not the information you have but what you do with it – this is the message from James Cutler of emapsite.

14th October 2011

Keeping the detail in view

14th October 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Nigerian ports are making a move toward efficiency by finally kicking multiple government agencies off their premises.

14th October 2011

Agencies ordered out of Nigerian ports

14th October 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Some 450 ports stevedores belonging to the Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Company downed tools in October, claiming that promises made to them over concerns raised in April had been reneged on.

14th October 2011

Dockers down tools at Al-Dekheila

14th October 2011

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A committed protest campaign is being promised by the Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) in light of Port Otago seeking up to a…

14th October 2011

Otago job cuts stun unions

14th October 2011