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EUROPE

EUROPE

Trieste Port Authority has confirmed its interest in a project put forward by the UniCredit Group to build a large platform spanning Trieste and Monfalcone ports capable of handling 3.2m teu/year. The…

27th August 2010

Trieste/Monfalcone seeking to create major box facility

27th August 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

For the second year running Port Botany’s Container Terminal Expansion has been given the tick of approval from an audit looking at environmental and planning impacts.

27th August 2010

Port Botany gains green approval

27th August 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Since the downturn, the world of forecasting has suddenly become much more complicated, and the industry needs to stop dumbling down port traffic predictions, according to Graham Cox of Maritime Traffic Forecasts.

26th August 2010

Port predictions need to evolve

26th August 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

In the last two years, ports in Chile, Colombia, Panama and Peru have invested $1.38bn in upgrading port infrastructure, while Brazils ports have spent $1bn since 1995.

26th August 2010

Latin America investing in ports

26th August 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Port and shipping companies from China and Southeast Asian countries have agreed to strengthen cooperation in a bid to handle increasing volumes at the fifth Pan-Beibu Gulf (PBG) Economic Cooperation Forum, a…

26th August 2010

Southeast Asia forum inks 26 projects

26th August 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Rather than buying new, PSA Mersin, one of the largest container ports in Turkey, commissioned Portunus to upgrade and retrofit three of its STS cranes with the latest technology currently available.

26th August 2010

Refurbished rather than new cranes

26th August 2010

ASIA

ASIA

CMA CGM has been linked to a new 10,000-hectare port development at Cilamaya, Karawang, in West Java. This new facility, which will have a 10m teu capacity, is scheduled to replace Tanjung…

26th August 2010

CMA CGM linked to West Java investment

26th August 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

A recent snapshot study suggests that congestion at global ports is on the increase, particularly in respect of bulk carriers.

26th August 2010

Global shipping fleet feeling affect of congestion

26th August 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

SMM 2010 is scheduled for 7 to 10 September, at the Hamburg Fair site in Germany. The 24th International Shipbuilding Fair is expected by the organisers to exceed the very considerable size…

25th August 2010

SMM focuses on the environment

25th August 2010

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Port operator DP World has clarified its position on its planned London listing to Port Strategy.

25th August 2010

DP World postpones London listing

25th August 2010

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

After over a year of a constant stream of depressing financial reporting from shipping lines terminal operators and port authorities we are finally seeing positive numbers being announced in the financial results.

25th August 2010

The peak season enigma

25th August 2010

AFRICA

AFRICA

APM Terminals claims to have uncovered fraud worth $153,000 involving six customs agents working at its Apapa terminal in Nigeria.

25th August 2010

Fraud uncovered in Apapa

25th August 2010

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Turkeys Privatisation Administration has put back the bidding deadline for a 36 year-concession at the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun from August 4 to September 16. Initially, the port was offered to the…

25th August 2010

Iskenderum to be privatised

25th August 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Authorities in Uruguay are taking a second look at the project to build a second container terminal in the port of Montevideo.

25th August 2010

Second Montevideo box terminal getting second look

25th August 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Ling Liong Sik, a former Malaysian Transport Minister, has been charged as part of $1bn scandal linked to Port Klang Free Zone. Ling’s involvement was in persuading the government to spend an…

24th August 2010

Financial scandal linked to Port Klang

24th August 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Plans to rationalise operations at the ports of Tanjung Pelepas and Johor, which are controlled by MMC Corporation, have fallen through.

24th August 2010

Johor/PTP merger off

24th August 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Indias Shipping Ministry has given Kochi Port Trust permission to release some of its land for a period of 60 years to help it during the current financial crisis. In all, 20…

24th August 2010

Kochi port to sell land to tide it over financial difficulties

24th August 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The Port of Liverpool in the UK has taken the step of handing over maintenance to an external engineering company.

24th August 2010

Liverpool to outsource maintenance

24th August 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has agreed to purchase approximately 130 acres of property at the Marine Ocean Terminal at Bayonne (MOTBY), a significant expansion of port facilities…

24th August 2010

PANYNJ city-port developments secured

24th August 2010

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The operation of seven berths at Pars Port Complex in Iran has been transferred to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, which will also have responsibility for future investment.

24th August 2010

IRSL to operate new Pars port complex

24th August 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

The head of the Investment and Development Committee of the Association of Commercial Sea Ports has said that Russia will invest $42m, compared with $50m last year, in improving port infrastructure.

24th August 2010

Russia to up port investment

24th August 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

New Zealand infrastructure investor Infratil has announced it is interested in adding its name to the bidding groups for the 99-year lease over Port of Brisbane being offered by the Queensland government.

24th August 2010

New face throws cap into Brisbane bidding ring

24th August 2010

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

One small word in a new US Bill – the word “or” – could put passive scanning companies in a strong position. Felicity Landon reports.

24th August 2010

One word makes all the difference

24th August 2010