News

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The Israeli government is to go ahead with the privatisation of the Ashdod and Haifa port companies.

3rd November 2009

Israel to privatise Ashdod and Haifa

3rd November 2009

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

Port Botany’s Container Terminal expansion has passed its compulsory first year environmental audit, exceeding all compliance requirements and winning an unqualified endorsement for a raft of environmental management initiatives.

2nd November 2009

Port Botany container terminal “ticks the green boxes”

2nd November 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

A secondhand market for fork-lift trucks certainly exists - even if its sold back to the dealer under buy back terms included in the original tender.

2nd November 2009

Secondhand units not the steal they appear to be

2nd November 2009

AFRICA

AFRICA

Tanzania International Container Terminal Services has lost its right to exclusively handle containers in the port of Dar es Salaam for 25 years.

2nd November 2009

TICTS loses exclusivity

2nd November 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

An asset-sale, reduction to skeleton three-person staff and returning of governance to the Grey District Council are among measures being pursued for the debt-ridden Port of Greymouth.

2nd November 2009

Drastic measures for Greymouth

2nd November 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Mitsui OSK Lines subsidiary TraPac has renewed its long-term lease contract for a container terminal at the Port of Los Angeles.

2nd November 2009

MOL renews LA lease

2nd November 2009

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

A healthy, growing port and a cleaner, healthier environment are compatible goals, as the Port of Charleston demonstrated at a “World Maritime Day” event; an annual event sponsored by the International Maritime…

1st November 2009

Charleston promotes green initiatives for World Maritime Day

1st November 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Representatives of workers, business and local Government have established a Timaru Port Network to advocate for the port and users interests, following Fonterra switching the majority of its local Clandeboye dairy exports…

1st November 2009

Primeport advocacy formed

1st November 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The latest US containerised import statistics reveal a 19.3% drop in the second quarter of 2009 compared with the same period last year, according to PIERS Trade Horizons.

31st October 2009

US figures still in decline

31st October 2009

ASIA

ASIA

The Japanese terminal group Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has cancelled plans to build a dedicated container terminal at the US port of Tacoma, which would have required investment of $300m.

31st October 2009

NYK pulls out of Tacoma terminal agreement

31st October 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

On the green side, fork-lift truck technology is moving on apace.

30th October 2009

FLTs Andy Andrews

30th October 2009

AFRICA

AFRICA

The new deepwater Port of Ngqura, South Africa, has welcomed its first commercial containership - the MSC Catania.

30th October 2009

Ngqura unloads its first ship

30th October 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

UK port executives have urged the government to start supporting the port industry, or risk losing out on business to mainland Europe.

30th October 2009

UK government urged to act now to protect port assets

30th October 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The port of Santos needs investment of $5bn to prevent capacity restraints stifling economic growth, a recent study has concluded.

30th October 2009

Santos needs $5bn investment

30th October 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Fork lift trucks are being confined to an ever smaller pool of duties, operators confide in Alex Hughes

29th October 2009

FLTs

29th October 2009

ASIA

ASIA

China claims that the new Shanghai Yangshan port that entered operations this autumn is the worlds largest in terms of container handling. Construction began in 2002 and culminated in the building of…

29th October 2009

Yangshan now biggest port in the world

29th October 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

The opening of the Bahrain Gateway is not to the detriment of Mina Salman,as Patrik Wheater finds out

28th October 2009

KBSP: all part of the Master Plan

28th October 2009

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

The Black Sea, the so-called inland sea borderedby Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus, is one of the areas of the world mostnegatively impacted by the recent economic downturn. But longer term this…

28th October 2009

PS PAGE COPY

28th October 2009

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani handed out the first Gijón. The Award, a wooden work of art designed by the Belgian artist Francois Schuiten, was given during a festive ceremony held at…

28th October 2009

Port of Gijon wins first ESPO award

28th October 2009

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

28 October...The seventh annual facilities engineering awards - a salute to exemplary port programs and best practices – took place during the 98th AAPA Convention in Galveston.

28th October 2009

AAPA Annual Awards Program

28th October 2009

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Syrias Tartous International Container Terminal (TICT) recorded a 44% increase in container throughput during the first six months of the year over the same period in 2008 and is gearing up for…

27th October 2009

Throughput boost for Syrias TICT

27th October 2009

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Are port infrastructure development projects aimed at placing Saudi Arabia as the transhipment hub of the Middle East? Patrik Wheater reports

26th October 2009

By-passing the Gulf

26th October 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Dockworkers Company of the State of Sã o Paulo (Codesp) has issued a tender for the bulk solids terminal formally managed by Cargill, whose own contract expired in 2005, but was…

26th October 2009

Cargill terminal tender issued

26th October 2009