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NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

NEWS GREENPORT CONGRESS

Companies wishing to submit an abstract for the programme should do so by 12th April 2011 latest.

28th March 2011

Call for papers released!

28th March 2011

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

The European Commission has launched a public consultation to explore options for future EU action on Maritime Spatial Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management. The Commission is seeking the views of all…

28th March 2011

Reducing pressure on Europes coastal and marine areas

28th March 2011

GPCA

GPCA

Companies wishing to submit an abstract for the programme should do so by 12th April 2011 latest.

28th March 2011

Call for papers released!

28th March 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Speaking at the recent Green Port Logistics Conference, Maersk Line’s General Manager of Terminal Strategy, Soren Thomsen, said a terminal’s environmental performance was viewed as a tie-breaker when selecting where to send…

28th March 2011

Maersk calls for Benchmarking

28th March 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Advances in technology, cost-effectiveness, functionality - port operating systems need all three, finds John Bensalhia

28th March 2011

All systems go

28th March 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

The port of Las Palmas has become the first in Spain to convert its port labour company, Sestiba, into a port stevedoring management company with limited liability (Sagep).

28th March 2011

Las Palmas first in Spain with stevedoring reforms

28th March 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

The current economic crisis has meant that €300m ($425.4m) of investment in the Spanish Mediterranean port of Sagunto has yet to go ahead. This was committed to the southern expansion of the…

28th March 2011

Sagunto investment crisis

28th March 2011

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Iraqs Transport Minister has announced that a tender will be issued by the end of this year for a multi-billion-dollar port south of the city of Basra.

28th March 2011

New Basra super port mooted

28th March 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Spanish ports estimate making an average loss of 12% in their revenue in the current year as a result of applying a revised tariff model set out in new framework legislation.

27th March 2011

Flexible tariff reforms will cost Spanish ports money

27th March 2011

ASIA

ASIA

Erik Laidvee, the chairman of Muuga box terminal operator Transiidikeskus AS, has claimed that it is now unlikely that the Chinese port of Ningbo will cooperate with the port of Tallinn on…

27th March 2011

Chinese Muuga wobbles

27th March 2011

ASIA

ASIA

SBI Phnom Penh Securities Co, Ltd. has been appointed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Cambodia to lead manage an initial public offering of Cambodias state-owned Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS),…

26th March 2011

Sihanoukville to list

26th March 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Scottish government has given approval to ScottishPower Renewables for the development of a 10MGwatt tidal energy installation worth around £STG40m.

25th March 2011

Tidal energy for Islay

25th March 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Containers apart, one sector of South African operations that does reasonably well is bulk, though even this has its ups and downs.

25th March 2011

A staple diet of bulk

25th March 2011

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Fees charged for the vehicle booking system operated by Patrick Stevedore at Port Botany doubled at the end of March.

25th March 2011

Patrick doubles booking fees

25th March 2011

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

A tender has been issued for a new dry bulk terminal at the Brazilian port of Itaguaí, which is being managed by the Rio de Janeiro port company.

25th March 2011

Itaguaí releases dry bulk tender

25th March 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Portuguese port of Sines could benefit from the current instability at ports across the Middle East, claims the president of CIP. If access to the Suez Canal becomes increasingly difficult, it…

25th March 2011

Sines win from North African disruption

25th March 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Georgia Ports Authority is to install an energy management system to monitor and control heating, ventilation, air conditioning and lighting at seven buildings at the Port of Savannah.

24th March 2011

GPA’s remote control on energy management

24th March 2011

GPCA

GPCA

GreenPort Congress is pleased to have the support of these key industry associations for the 2011 event.

24th March 2011

ESPO, EFIP & ECOPORTS to lend their support

24th March 2011

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

During the recent GreenPort conference on the 23th and 24th of February , the Port of Antwerp presented its carbon footprint.

24th March 2011

Carbon footprinting in the Port of Antwerp

24th March 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Tanzania Ports Authority plans to implement a $560m plan to build two new container terminals at the port of Dar es Salaam. These will add an additional 500,000 teu capacity to existing…

24th March 2011

Two new Dar es Salaam terminals

24th March 2011