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NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

More than 200 delegates from 30 countries came together in Hamburg to discuss and debate key green issues affecting ports today

21st September 2011

Ports are tackling the Green Challenge

21st September 2011

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

TT Clubs Charles Fenton tells James Brewer how the insurer has steered its way through the financial shoals

21st September 2011

Claims under control

21st September 2011

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

In this season of Labor Day, job creation and the inchoate 2012 Presidential campaign trail - now an eighteen month affair - ports continue to be a bit player in the larger…

21st September 2011

Making the most of a supporting role

21st September 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Price-driven fender purchases could “increase costs and reduce the efficiency of ports over the longer-term”, according to research from Trelleborg Marine Systems.

21st September 2011

Fender choices driven by price

21st September 2011

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

WITNESSING CARGOTEC’S COMMITMENT to support future generations of container terminal operators, the company recently launched the ‘Port 2060’ project, which aims to imagine how the container industry might evolve over the next…

21st September 2011

Cargotec envisages game-changing Port 2060

21st September 2011

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The Port of Long Beachs clean-air efforts are achieving dramatic across-theboardreductions in air pollution, including a 72 percent decline in diesel particulates, according to the latest comprehensive study.

21st September 2011

Long Beach makes 70% diesel pollution cut

21st September 2011

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

WITHIN A PORT context, ‘efficiency’ is usually a word associated with operational rather than environmental management, but it has been the mantra used todeliver real carbon savings at the Port of Dover.

20th September 2011

Dovers focus on efficiency

20th September 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Cranes with very long outreaches are now being put in position at major ports around the world. But is existing port infrastructure sufficient to be able to accommodate them?

20th September 2011

Planning ahead pays off

20th September 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Six consortia have bid for the contract to build the new container terminal at the port of Cadiz, with a contract to be awarded in September. However, the operating concession will only…

20th September 2011

Cadiz concession delay

20th September 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Konecranes has confirmed an order for three ship-to-shore cranes and seven rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Lithuania’s JSSC Klaipedos Smelte. The cranes will be delivered to the port of Klaipeda starting in the…

20th September 2011

Konecranes nets Lithuania contract

20th September 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

SeaIntel Maritime Analysis has developed an environmental benchmark index allowing direct comparisonbetween the 20 largest container carriers.

20th September 2011

New Report Ranks Top-20 Carriers

20th September 2011

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

Flinders Ports wants to build a $AUS600mill port with a three kilometre-long jetty at Port Bonython, near Whyalla, South Australia.

20th September 2011

$600m Development for Port Bonython

20th September 2011

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

ALPHERIUM, THE LARGEST barge-connected inland terminal in the Netherlands, has proved such a success since it opened for business in October 2010 that thefacility is already operating at capacity.

19th September 2011

Rotterdam barge terminal strategy pays environmental dividends

19th September 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

The big ships are coming, but where are the orders for equipment to serve them asks Alex Hughes

19th September 2011

Larger than life

19th September 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Spanish cabinet has approved revisions to the National Port Law which will make it mandatory for ports to achieve a 2.5% annual surplus.

19th September 2011

Spaniards demand profitable ports

19th September 2011

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

Mitsui OSK Lines has purchased the DBJ Environmental Ratings from the Development Bank of Japan.

19th September 2011

MOL Earns Environmental Ratings from DBJ

19th September 2011

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Vision Industries has delivered the worlds first zero-emission hydrogen fuelcell-electric Class 8 truck to Total Transportation Services Inc (TTSI).

19th September 2011

Zero-Emission Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck

19th September 2011

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Armasur, the professional body representing maritime transport operators in Chile, is opposing the concession to build the proposed Punta Panitao port in the south of the country.

18th September 2011

Chilean operators oppose Panitao tender

18th September 2011

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Uruguays National Ports Authority (ANP) wants to move empty containers outside the port of Montevideo to avoid operational collapse at the container terminal.

17th September 2011

Montevideo must offload empties

17th September 2011

ASIA

ASIA

Korea’s Total Soft Bank is to play a “key role” in BPA-NET, Busan’s port community system designed to “increase the efficiency of port operation”, to improve service quality, and create value-add. The…

17th September 2011

TSB wins Busan community contract

17th September 2011

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The security situation at the Libyan port of Tripoli and Benghazi has stabilised to such an extent that cargo vessels from both Italy and Malta have both made calls.

16th September 2011

Libyan ports resume international operations

16th September 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Kiel has opened its doors to the public with a new viewing terrace at its Schwedenkai Terminal.

16th September 2011

Kiel’s opens up its vista

16th September 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Government has endorsed the National Spatial Plan (NSP) for the Port of Koper.

16th September 2011

Koper Plan Adopted

16th September 2011