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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

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Ports cant do it by themselves, says Professor David Menachof, port logisticsspecialist at Hull University Business School.

4th March 2010

The community approach

4th March 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Scotline has been forced to put its Humber terminal into liquidation after receiving a court summons over a £600,000 backdated rates bill.

3rd March 2010

Scotline calls in liquidators as it faces £600,000 rates bill at Goole

3rd March 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

A controversial plan to build a new port, competing with Dublin Port, has been criticised by Enda Connellan, chief executive of Dublin Port Co, for being the sole “legacy of unsustainable public…

3rd March 2010

Irelands Bremore port plan slammed as unnecessary

3rd March 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

While Finnish passenger and goods traffic was set to resume today after unions struck a deal with employers, an agreement has yet to be reached with the nations port workers.

3rd March 2010

Finnish ports face strike threat

3rd March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

During 2007 the Port of Dunkerque decided to aim for accreditation of its facilities for ships and inland waterway vessels.

3rd March 2010

Dunkerque certified

3rd March 2010

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

A new study published by an environmental pressure group claims emissions from existing port terminals could cost Charleston County (SC) as much as $54 million dollars a year in health care expenses.

3rd March 2010

Emissions could cost Charleston $81m a year

3rd March 2010

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Where else are you taxed on the actions of other people? asks Charles Hammond, who continues to speak out forcefully against the UKs Carbon Reduction Rules because of the way they will…

3rd March 2010

No credit where its due

3rd March 2010

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at the events taking place in the liner industry today; once that solitary green shoot had been spied the woes of the past year suddenly seemed…

3rd March 2010

Plant food

3rd March 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Panamas National Customs Authority is investigating the port of Balboa following complaints from Bolivia that owners of containers being scanned were charged $540 each.

3rd March 2010

Investigations at Balboa

3rd March 2010

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Federal Marine Terminals (FMT), which operates 10 terminals across the Great Lakes and the Eastern Seaboard, has unveiled its environmental policy on its website (www.fmtcargo.com). FMT is one of the first marine…

2nd March 2010

FMT makes environmental policy public

2nd March 2010

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

What is your ports carbon footprint? Well, it depends where you draw the line. Felicity Landon reports

2nd March 2010

Drawing the line

2nd March 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

A tender covering a new container terminal at Porto Alegre is to be issued by mid-year.

2nd March 2010

Porto Alegre box terminal

2nd March 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) has revealed that the region’s ports made substantial gains in the last quarter of 2009 compared with previous year’s figures.

2nd March 2010

Driving growth in Georgia

2nd March 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Brazils federal government waterway transport agency, Antaq, will issue a tender this year for a new public port to be built in Ilhéus, on the southern coast of Bahia state.

2nd March 2010

New public port for Brazil

2nd March 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Three major Rangoon ports handling 90% of Burma’s imports and exports are to be privatised, the military ruling junta has announced.

1st March 2010

Privatisation plan for Burma’s ports

1st March 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Following pressure from the Federal Anti-monopoly Service of Russia, the Russian Ministry of Transport has been forced to remove anti-monopoly practices in the port services market.

1st March 2010

Russia caves in to anti-monopoly order

1st March 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The US port of Long Beach has inaugurated a $3bn capital construction programme to help it remain competitive.

1st March 2010

Long Beach eyes $3bn expansion

1st March 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Port unions in Costa Rica remain confident that an agreement can be reached with the government regarding the future of the Limón-Moín port concession.

28th February 2010

Unions discuss future of Costa Rican ports

28th February 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Italys Infrastructure & Transport Minister has announced that, for 2010 and 2011, port taxes and anchorage charges will be reduced to zero at the ports of Cagliari, Gioia Tauro and Taranto.

26th February 2010

Transhipment more attractive in Italy

26th February 2010