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EQUIPMENT

Logistics company Import Services has found a niche for storage combined with high volume retail pick and pack, close to Southampton container port.

16th January 2009

Logistics winner for Southampton

16th January 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

London Thamesport has introduced an e-mail alert system to update hauliers and port users on operational conditions.

15th January 2009

Email alerts from Thamesport

15th January 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The European Union has approved $765m of public funding for the $1.2bn new deepwater port of Wilhelmshaven in Germany. The money will come from the federal states of Bremen and Lower Saxony.…

15th January 2009

Public funding for JadeWeser approved

15th January 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Brazils Special Secretariat of Ports (SEP) has published a tender in respect of the deepening of the access channel at the Port of Rio Grande. Investment will be $84m, of which $63m…

14th January 2009

Rio Grande to deepen access channel

14th January 2009

ASIA

ASIA

China Merchants Holdings (International) is to cut back plans to develop terminals and also possibly adjust capital expenditure as the economic downturn begins to impact in China.

13th January 2009

CMH announces cut backs

13th January 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

As part of port expansion plans, Portroe Stevedores Ltd has taken delivery of six Liebherr rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes for the Port of Dublin, Ireland.

12th January 2009

Dublin and Algeria plan on Liebherr

12th January 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Chiles port of Mejillones plans to upgrade its facilities in order to be able to store and ship iron ore from mid-2009 onwards, media have reported.

12th January 2009

Chile

12th January 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Work is now underway on a high efficiency coal loader, rated at 2,000 tonnes per hour, for Slovenian company Luka Koper, to be installed in the Port of Koper.

11th January 2009

Loads more for Koper

11th January 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The Port of Dover has had its own dredger for some time. Nigel Stokes, assistant harbour master, explains that the David Church, which carries out both suction and grab dredging, is in…

9th January 2009

Doing it for themselves

9th January 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

According to San Antonio Port Company (EPSA), several global stevedoring groups have expressed an interest in the 30-year concession to build and operate the new Costanera terminal at the port. With an…

9th January 2009

International interest in San Antonio

9th January 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Maintaining channels and berth depths has become an operational migraine as dredgers flock to more lucrative reclamation projects instead, as Stevie Knight discovers

7th January 2009

Dredging – no bottom in sight

7th January 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

A new ship-to-shore gantry crane has arrived at the Port of Liverpool for the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal where berthing for deep sea ships is to be increased by a third.

6th January 2009

Crane corners deep sea shipping

6th January 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Riga saw volumes increase by 13.8% to 21.9m tonnes in the first nine months of this year. The increase reflected growing volumes in dry bulks, mostly coal but also…

5th January 2009

Riga projects

5th January 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Port Services Engineering Ltd (PSEL) has added another facet to its competencies by acquiring a training and HSE company.

4th January 2009

PSEL adds global training arm

4th January 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Lithuanian port of Klaipeda handled a record 27.36m tonnes lastyear (2007), an increase of almost 16% on 2006. At the time of writing,the forecast was another 10-15% increase for 2008, to…

2nd January 2009

Klaipeda cargo record

2nd January 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The very first two Liebherr rail-mounted stacking container cranes are on order for Russia.

1st January 2009

Cranes go east

1st January 2009

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

As 2008 draws a close, its time for a little reflection on what this year has brought us. But will we learn from the lessons, or will our memories revert to the…

31st December 2008

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31st December 2008

ASIA

ASIA

A giant share swap-shop has been taking place between Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), and the Evergreen group.

31st December 2008

Share swap-shop for HPH

31st December 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Bucking the trend, Busan Port is to globalise its operations in the face of the economic slowdown.

31st December 2008

Busan committed to global programme

31st December 2008

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Kalmar has been awarded a contract to supply 42 Ottawa 4x2 terminal tractors for the expansion of the Port of Salalah, located in the southern region of Oman.

31st December 2008

Salalah expansion signs up tractors

31st December 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Strong signs are emerging of a shake-up in Perus ports sector with the Prime Minister Yehude Simon stating that the government plans to prioritise ports, especially concessioning.

31st December 2008

Peru Ports Concessioning

31st December 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

US investors have shown great interest in financing the improvement of Pimentel port in the northern Peruvian city of Chiclayo, local mayor Roberto Jacinto Purizaca has said.

31st December 2008

Pimental woos Americans

31st December 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Mexican deep water Port of Tuxpan will definitely go ahead at a cost of $280m. Finance will come from a consortium of ports and industrial parks, as well as from the…

31st December 2008

Tuxpan to go ahead

31st December 2008