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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Itapoá Terminais Portuários, a port located in Santa Catarina in the south of Brazil, will implement the NavisTM SPARCS N4 system from Zebra Enterprise Solutions with plans to go live by 2011.…

3rd May 2010

Itapoá Terminal gets SPARCS system

3rd May 2010

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Iraqi Transport Minister, Amer Abdul-Jabbar, has announced that an Italian consortium is to construct a new port at Al-Faw.

2nd May 2010

New Al-Faw port project

2nd May 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Gottwald has unveiled a new energy-saving hybrid drive, employing state-of-the-art diesel generators in connection with dynamic brake resistors and short-term energy storage to achieve fuel savings in the double-digit percentage range.

1st May 2010

Gottwald cranes get onboard energy store

1st May 2010

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

HFWs Flora Stewart asks if the disjointed safety regimes in place in the UK go far enough to protect dockworkers

30th April 2010

Safe and sound

30th April 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

After a lull of six years, the Chilean government is to reactivate its ports privatisation programme in 2010.

30th April 2010

Chileans to return to ports privatisation

30th April 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Linde Heavy Truck Division Limited has signed two major contracts worth around €3m ($4.1m) with Chittagong Port Authority.

30th April 2010

Linde handling equipment for Chittagong

30th April 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

April 13, 2010 saw the passing of one of the terminal operating industry’s memorable characters, Francis Meredith Andrews, better known as Andy Andrews to his many friends and colleagues.

30th April 2010

Remembering ICTSI’s Andy Andrews

30th April 2010

AFRICA

AFRICA

A major port upgrade programme has been completed in Durban, South Africa, the biggest of its kind on the African continent.

30th April 2010

Durban upgrade completed

30th April 2010

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Port officials in Shanghai are taking no chances with dangerous cargoes when the eyes of the world are focussed on their city for Expo 2010, which has just begun, and runs until…

29th April 2010

Shanghai takes no chances

29th April 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

New Zealand’s Port of Otago will soon go to tender for a refurbishment of the oil wharf in Dunedins upper harbour, which includes an improved fendering system.

29th April 2010

Otago fender tender

29th April 2010

ASIA

ASIA

The 10% concession for ocean-going vessels mooring at the Port of Singapore for not more than 10 days has been extended for a further six months to September 30, as has the…

29th April 2010

Singapore extends dues concessions

29th April 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Muuga Container Terminal in the port of Tallinn is the both the first operation in the Baltic Sea and the very first feeder terminal to be assessed against the Germanischer Lloyd Container…

29th April 2010

Muuga gains CTQI certification

29th April 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A 4% increase in annual container throughput has seen Port Otago bring forward plans to invest NZ$2.9m (US$2.1m) on two new Kalmar straddle cranes and tender for a NZ$1m (US$712,000) refurbishment of…

29th April 2010

Otago brings forward investment

29th April 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The rising price of raw materials is having a knock-on effect on mobile handling equipment.

29th April 2010

Rising costs hit mobile equipment

29th April 2010

ASIA

ASIA

World shipping trade is forecast to grow 8.5% this year, according to the latest forecast from IHS Global Insights World Trade Service.

28th April 2010

Trade increases only part of the recovery picture

28th April 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

A trial currently taking place in California could set an uncomfortable precedent for US port trucking, deciding whether or not a local agency – in this case the Port of Los Angeles…

28th April 2010

US port trucking trial tests authority

28th April 2010

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

More dangerous cargoes in greater volumes place more demands on the people who must load and unload them, as Stuart Pearcey discovers

28th April 2010

A dangerous game

28th April 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

An auction which took place on the Montevideo stock exchange for the rights to build a second terminal at the Port of Montevideo attracted no bids and was consequently scrapped.

28th April 2010

Montevideo second box terminal concession bombs

28th April 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Aberdeen Harbour Board has started work on its Torry Quay development to provide stronger quays for heavy lifts and create more room in the River Dee for vessels to navigate.

28th April 2010

Aberdeen’s development starts

28th April 2010

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

Mr Heinrich Goller of Hamburgs HHLA believes there has to be a better way of comparing operations than the present system.

27th April 2010

Disparate measures

27th April 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Eight consortia have pre-qualified for the Guaymas container terminal project in Mexico.

27th April 2010

Eight pre-qualify for Guaymas

27th April 2010

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Israels Minister of Finance has signed the ports user rates reform, which will eventually allow Haifa Port Company and Ashdod Port Company to be privatised.

27th April 2010

Go ahead for Israeli ports privatisation

27th April 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Ports America Group has announced that Michael F Hassing is to be the company’s president and chief executive. Mr Hassing, 51, has served since 2008 as chief executive of Scandlines GmbH, one…

27th April 2010

CEO appointment at Ports America

27th April 2010