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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Nows the time to lay the groundwork for future port growth, as Stuart Pearcey finds out

6th August 2009

Making the land on which to build economic recovery

6th August 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The president of Katoen Natie Terminal TCP  is on the verge of handing over a Trigger Letter to the Uruguayan government if it passes a law allowing for another dedicated container terminal…

6th August 2009

Katoen Natie Terminal hits out at Uruguay administrator

6th August 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Regardless of steel price fluctuations, a price differential betweenEuropean units and cheaper, Asian-manufactured products undoubtedlyremains. 

5th August 2009

Looking beyond the price barrier

5th August 2009

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

The attitude of dock labour in Spain ischanging. There is a reality dawning that new competitive pressures -of the type being fielded from Moroccos Tangier Med containertranshipment terminals - require a competitive…

5th August 2009

Labour bends

5th August 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Hanjin New Port Company terminal (HJNC) in Busan, Korea has claimed the designation as the worlds first horizontal terminal equipped with an automated management system.

5th August 2009

Lower operating costs for Hanjin

5th August 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Residents of the Chilean town of Coquimbo have lodged complaints against a decision to privatise their local port.

5th August 2009

Single operator for Coquimbo

5th August 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Alliance Tire has extended its line of port tyres with the Port Star (309) 14.00-24 28 ply, designed primarily for container handling in ports.

5th August 2009

Alliances new tyre offering

5th August 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Guaymas Port Authority in Mexico has issued a new tender for the construction and operation of a dry bulk terminal.

4th August 2009

New dry bulk terminal for Guaymas

4th August 2009

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Integrationof security and IT systems will be a critical issue in the drive to develophinterland gateways and inland freight hubs, Haven Gateway project directorRichard Morton has warned.

3rd August 2009

Security and IT critical issues for dryports

3rd August 2009

AFRICA

AFRICA

Cape Town container terminals expansion project has seen several milestones in recent months, and the upward trajectory is set to continue for the next five years while the countrys second-largest port continues…

3rd August 2009

Capacity boost continues at Cape Town

3rd August 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Mexico  should launch the tender for the Peso50bn ($3.75bn) Punta Colonet port project, in Baja California state, to prepare the country  for future growth opportunities as and when the global economic crisis…

3rd August 2009

Punta Colonet still needed

3rd August 2009

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Last week the Council of State in the Netherlands suspended the routing decree and one of the implementation permits for deepening the navigation channel in the Western Scheldt. The routing decree covers…

3rd August 2009

Dutch Council of State suspends routing decree on Western Scheldt

3rd August 2009

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Ships at the Port of Seattle have reduced emissions of sulfur dioxide by at least 80 percent and diesel particulate matter by 60 percent through an innovative program called At-Berth Clean Fuels.…

3rd August 2009

Air Emissions from Ships Decline at Port of Seattle

3rd August 2009

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Is it worthinvesting in all-singing, all-dancing scanning technology following US diktats?Possibly not, as Carly Fields finds out

2nd August 2009

Snags of scanning

2nd August 2009

AFRICA

AFRICA

A new container terminal is scheduled to be operational at Mombasa by 2013. A Japanese loan of $207m will fund construction costs of the facility which will be able to handle 1.2m…

2nd August 2009

Japan to finance Mombasa box terminal

2nd August 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

As from July, Muelles El Bosque Operadores Portuarios will commence handling of dry bulk traffic at the Colombian port of Buenaventura. Its new terminal will be able to unload up to 10,000…

2nd August 2009

New operator at Buenaventura

2nd August 2009

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Tentativesigns of recovery are starting to emerge, as Carly Fields finds out

1st August 2009

Clearer skies

1st August 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port Otago chief executive Geoff Plunket said until Dunedin suffers the traffic congestion that makes inland ports economically-viable in Auckland, such an initiative is not warranted in his region. KiwiRail had raised…

1st August 2009

Otago inland port dismissed

1st August 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Teesport in the UK is beginning to make its mark as a shortsea shipping hub, with growing connections to northern Europe.

1st August 2009

shortsea hub status for Teesport

1st August 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has had a hard time recently, given the level of investment needed for its expansion and the scarcity of ships in the present climate.

1st August 2009

Panama and Philly get together

1st August 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Maersk Line New Zealand country manager Julian Bevis says the chance of vessels bigger than the current-largest of 4100 teu coming to New Zealand in the short term is relatively small. However,…

31st July 2009

Larger callers doubtful

31st July 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Plans to build a second seaport in Sochi, Russia, at a cost of $272m have been abandoned. Instead, 10 other sites have been identified for the storing and transhipment cargo.

31st July 2009

Second Sochi port abandoned

31st July 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Classification society RINA has launched new voluntary environmental standards to allow ships to connect to shore-based electricity while in port, reducing harbour air pollution.

31st July 2009

Plug-in port standards set

31st July 2009