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NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

A Galveston terminal in Texas has come up with a novel idea to improve its operations both economically and environmentally - it is ‘repurposing’ conveyor belts to use as spill containment liners.

24th October 2012

Repurposing at Galveston terminal

24th October 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

APM Terminals Frank Tazelaar sees a future speckled with automated terminals, particularly in north-western Europe and the US.

24th October 2012

Look to a more automated future

24th October 2012

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

Ship Waste Agency, a French start-up created in 2010, has just launched a new groundbreaking solution to facilitate and ameliorate the ship waste management along with the participation of all the different…

23rd October 2012

A worldwide e-services platform to standardise and ease ship waste management

23rd October 2012

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

A Galveston terminal in Texas has come up with a novel idea to improve its operations both economically and environmentally - it is ‘repurposing’ conveyor belts to use as spill containment liners.

23rd October 2012

Repurposing at Galveston terminal

23rd October 2012

EUROPE

EUROPE

Valencia Port Authority has given Noatum Ports permission to temporarily suspend work that it is undertaking on Muelle de Costa.

23rd October 2012

Noatum reviews Valencia expansion project

23rd October 2012

ASIA

ASIA

Westports Malaysia is to raise $500m through an IPO in the second quarter of next year.

23rd October 2012

IPO to fund Port Klang expansion

23rd October 2012

ASIA

ASIA

Indonesian state holding Pelindo II is reported as preparing to sell off its subsidiary, Multi-Terminal Indonesia, which manages its logistics activities, as well as container and multi-purpose terminals.

23rd October 2012

Pelindo II to sell off box terminal holdings

23rd October 2012

AFRICA

AFRICA

The secretary general of the East African Community has revealed that negotiations are at an advanced stage to privatise the ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam.

23rd October 2012

East African ports for sale

23rd October 2012

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has issued a simplified overview of the revised version of MARPOL Annex V (Garbage), which comes into effect on 1 January 2013 and will introduce stricter controls…

23rd October 2012

Revised MARPOL Annex V – IMO overview

23rd October 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Earlier this year, PSA announced that it had asked ZPMC and Singapore Technologies Kinetics Limited to each develop an AGV prototype with energy-efficient hybrid technology. As part of the project, Cargotec was…

23rd October 2012

Cargotec enters the AGV fray

23rd October 2012

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Hamburg Business Association has accepted the Federal Administrative Court’s (FAC) decision to deepen the River Elbe, but says fast legal decisions need to be made to reduce the impact…

20th October 2012

Port of Hamburg calls for change in laws

20th October 2012

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

DP World recently invested in the latest straddle carriers for its container terminal at the Port of Melbourne.

19th October 2012

DPW Melbourne invests in greener equipment

19th October 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

As governments across the world insist on engines being ever cleaner, is it realistic to assume that one day we can expect to see a 100% green reachstacker? The manufacturers we approached…

19th October 2012

Towards a zero emissions reachstacker

19th October 2012

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A case study by TT Club points out that normal insurance might not cover crane and vessel collision damage if the crane is in the process of being delivered or installed.

18th October 2012

TT Club warning over uninsured assets

18th October 2012

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The European Commission published new guidelines on inland navigation and nature protection to assist the sector in applying EU environmental legislation.

18th October 2012

New Commission guidelines for inland navigation and Natura 2000

18th October 2012

THE STRATEGIST

THE STRATEGIST

The acceptance of private sector participation in ports in Africa is gaining traction, and not before time. At least thats what a meeting of port minds in Nigeria would have us believe.

18th October 2012

Private sector finally welcome in Africa

18th October 2012

EUROPE

EUROPE

French port operations solutions company, SOGET, recently announced its plans to strengthen its international growth strategy to become the point of reference for Single Window by 2015.

18th October 2012

SOGET taps fast growing PCS market

18th October 2012

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted $1.34m to the Port of Long Beach (POLB) for its diesel reduction project at its container terminals.

18th October 2012

POLB funding to reduce diesel pollution

18th October 2012

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Comparing apples with apples is mission near-impossible when it comes to reachstacker emissions, as Alex Hughes finds out

18th October 2012

Moving targets

18th October 2012

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

The September event season included back-to-back appearances by executives from the City of New York’s Economic Development Corporation, one aboard “Pier 66”- an old cross-harbour railcar barge converted into a floating restaurant…

18th October 2012

Learning east coast lessons

18th October 2012