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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Itajai is positioning itself as an alternative to more congested Brazilian ports, as Bob Moser finds out

2nd November 2011

Jump the queue

2nd November 2011

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

It seems to me, as an interested observer, that the western hemisphere is in a gambling mood. There is a lot of hedging and slight of hand going on in the supposed…

2nd November 2011

Financial roulette: the new game in town

2nd November 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

The government of Angola has given the go-ahead for the construction of a new commercial port at Barra do Dande, in Bengo province.

2nd November 2011

New port for Angola

2nd November 2011

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Oakland is being targeted as part of the Oakland General Strike in California today. A group called Occupy Oakland are leading a march on the port in order to…

2nd November 2011

Oakland threatened by strike closure

2nd November 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Recent research has indicated that north Europe ports may offer the most efficient route for container transport by way of the environment, economy and geography.

1st November 2011

Northern European port efficiency

1st November 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Cadiz Bay Port Authority has signed a €92.04m ($130m) contract with a consortium composed of Acciona (50%) and FCC (50%) to build its new container terminal.

31st October 2011

Cadiz construction contract signed

31st October 2011

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Latin American countries need to look beyond increasingly large ports and consider logistics, Ricardo Sánchez, chief of the infrastructure services unit at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,…

31st October 2011

Latin ports must tackle infrastructure

31st October 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

After a long battle, the importance of inland facilities to multi-modal freight is being recognised by inclusion in the Trans-European Transport Network (TENT-T), although there’s still concern about achieving true parity when…

28th October 2011

Inland ports finally gain recognition on European network

28th October 2011

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

A hydrogen powered ferry is nearing completion in the UK port city of Bristol and is due to be launched commercially in the harbour this autumn.

27th October 2011

UK city port to get hydrogen ferry

27th October 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Rosmorport has begun a “strategic co-operation” with Cargotec that should help the Russian body to upgrade its ports, while giving the Finnish equipment manufacturer a platform for sales.

27th October 2011

Russia moves toward the Finnish

27th October 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Port of Gothenburg has just announced a reduction in shore-side power tax for environmental and financial reasons.

27th October 2011

Gothenburg shore-side power tax reduction

27th October 2011

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Rosmorport has begun a “strategic co-operation” with Cargotec that should help the Russian body to upgrade its ports and give the Finnish equipment manufacturer a sales platform.

26th October 2011

Green partnership for Rosmorport

26th October 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Every operation is different and there is no way to ‘cut and paste’ from one port to another, says John Lund of Visy.

26th October 2011

No way to ‘cut and paste’

26th October 2011

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

You certainly can’t accuse Virginia Port Authority of half measures. In July, it replaced all of its board members bar one in a sweeping move to kick-start growth.

26th October 2011

Full throttle

26th October 2011

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

This morning, DP World announced a solid third quarter with gross handling volumes up to 14.4 million teu – 10% up on the same quarter last year.

25th October 2011

DP World announce 10% growth

25th October 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Partners, competitors, or a bit of both? The overlap of gate solution, terminal operating and third party systems is causing confusion. Felicity Landon reports

25th October 2011

Mixed messages

25th October 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

APM Terminals has selected spare parts and service specialist Portunus for the refurbishment of its N.4 quay cranes in Poti Port, Georgia.

25th October 2011

Portunus wins APM Poti contract

25th October 2011

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

Stevie Knight asks how important social awareness is in todays tighter tender processes

24th October 2011

A fit of conscience

24th October 2011

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Empermontt, the Puerto Montt port operator in Chile, has been given permission to go ahead with a $50m investment in a new dry bulk terminal at Panitao. However, it is expected to…

24th October 2011

New dry bulk terminal agreed at Puerto Montt

24th October 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Qatar Navigation Services is to employ Jade’s Master Terminal to make the switch from a paper-based system container processing system.

24th October 2011

Qatar plumps for Jade

24th October 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Gate specialist CAMCO Technologies is to supply its Gate Automation system to the greenfield MSC terminal in Fos-sur-Mer, France.

24th October 2011

Fos opens gate to CAMCO

24th October 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

One grab factor that has to be taken into account nowadays is that of the environment – when a crane handles dusty material, this is always going to pose problems such as…

23rd October 2011

Ticking the green boxes

23rd October 2011

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

All work on the projected Terminal Port of Lajes in Brazil has been halted by a court injunction taken out by the Federal Public Ministry.

23rd October 2011

Lajes project halted in Brazil

23rd October 2011