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EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Norfolk Southern Corporation’s sustainability initiatives have earned the company recognition as one of 25 green supply chain partners named by Inbound Logistics magazine.

12th March 2010

Norfolk Southern a top ‘green’ company

12th March 2010

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Polarcus, a leading marine geophysical company, has announced that it is using Castrol Marine’s range of environmentally responsible lubricants. The company has teamed up with Castrol Marine, one of the leading global…

12th March 2010

Polarcus partners with Castrol to enhance green credentials

12th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Work on deepening the Western Scheldt will start in a few weeks, now that the Council of State in the Netherlands has given the go-ahead. According to Flemish minister of public works…

12th March 2010

Dutch go-ahead for Scheldt deepening

12th March 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The latest United States budget has moved away from the aim of scanning 100% of US-bound container cargo at over 700 foreign ports.

11th March 2010

US abandons 100% scanning target

11th March 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

The battle for Forth Ports, owner of some of the UK’s largest facilities, is heating up with the company’s share price positively reflecting the strong interest.

11th March 2010

Forth bids spark expectations

11th March 2010

ASIA

ASIA

A port survey has shown that the total investment earmarked for expansion and renovation projects along the 2,838km navigable length of the Yangtze river now comes to around $4bn.

11th March 2010

Yangtze aims higher – and deeper

11th March 2010

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

Global cabling systems group, Nexans, control systems specialist, Advanced Microwave Engineering (AME) and sensor solutions producer SICK, are to become members of the Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA), in a move that…

11th March 2010

Three new PEMA members

11th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

With its “Port and City Together” Project, the Port of Gijón, Spain, was the first winner of the ESPO Societal Integration award. GreenPort Journal interviews the President of the Port of Gijón,…

11th March 2010

Gijón: “Port and City Together”

11th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Simon Bennett, secretary, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), reviews the Copenhagen Conference and the implications for the global shipping industry

11th March 2010

Reducing shipping’s CO2 emissions: what next after Copenhagen?

11th March 2010

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

The previously intimate Shanghai and Hong Kong now seem like strangers, as Stevie Knight discovers

11th March 2010

Worlds apart

11th March 2010

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

Port of Los Angeles is vying with neighbouring Long Beach in implementing a series of initiatives aimed at improving the port’s environmental performance. The port is entering into negotiations with Los Angeles…

10th March 2010

LA to assess fuel-cell trucks

10th March 2010

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

There are still some very strange things that go on in the ports sector – things that unless you have a vested interest don’t seem to add up at all.

10th March 2010

Dumb and dumber

10th March 2010

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

DNV Climate Change Services North America explores the growing pressure on ports to balance emission reductions initiatives with the need to maintain commercially competitive facilities and operating conditions

9th March 2010

A vision for Greenport operations

9th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The UK’s Freight Transport Association (FTA) has welcomed the Department for Transport’s (DfT) long-awaited National Policy Statement for ports. The trade body believes that the draft statement should pave the way for…

9th March 2010

Trade body welcome UK ports statement

9th March 2010

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

During the course of last summer, three technical committees composed of Green Marine participants held a series of meetings to discuss the addition of new issues to the Environmental Programme and the…

9th March 2010

Green Marine revises performance indicators

9th March 2010

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Long Beach’s transformation into an environmental leader among seaports began five years ago this month with approval of the Green Port Policy

9th March 2010

A port transformed: five years of the Green Port policy

9th March 2010

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Although the contract with the external services company at Naha isstill in its early days, NICTIs president Edgardo Q Abesamis says, to date, there have been no badexperiences; to the contrary, things…

9th March 2010

Preparation key to securing expert third party management

9th March 2010

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Smaller terminals are sticking to third party equipment maintenance service plans, as Alex Hughes finds out

8th March 2010

Outsourced maintenance

8th March 2010

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Global terminal operator DP World has announced the winners of its 2009 Safety and Environment Awards for Excellence. “This year we received a total of 69 submissions; the variety of risks being…

7th March 2010

DPW announces environment award winners

7th March 2010

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

A voluntary programme to get cruise and cargo vessel operators to reduce ship speeds when travelling to and from San Diego Bay is working. Cruise and cargo vessel operators are asked to…

6th March 2010

Vessel operators help improve San Diego air quality

6th March 2010

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Idea sharing and joint ownership of carbon cutting projects will tackle worldwide port emissions,explains Felicity Landon

5th March 2010

Turning out 20,000 lights

5th March 2010

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

A local collaborative effort including the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) to foster environmental protection and economic revitalisation in distressed neighbourhoods has earned a national Environmental Justice Achievement Award through the…

4th March 2010

Charleston community partnership recognised

4th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Castrol Marine, one of the leading global suppliers of marine lubricants, has launched two new barges in advance of the latest ‘double hull’ legislation from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

4th March 2010

Castrol Marine launches two double hull barges

4th March 2010