News

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Apart from alumina, cement is one of the most dusty dry bulk commodities. Spillage prevention during loading and unloading operations poses a major challenge.

23rd December 2010

Keeping cement terminals clean

23rd December 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Damen Dredging Equipment has handed over Amoris, a one-off stationary cutter suction dredger which has gone straight to work on the AMORAS silt dredging and treatment project in the Port of Antwerp.

23rd December 2010

New CSD for Antwerp dredging project

23rd December 2010

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

The challenge now is to develop processes that will deliver practicable, cost effective solutions toward sustainable development, argues Herman Journée and Chris Wooldridge.

23rd December 2010

A chain reaction

23rd December 2010

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

The stimulus of legislation in Europe can be seen in the effect of such provisions as the General Food Law that is aims at food safety in the whole transport chain from…

23rd December 2010

Transparent handling

23rd December 2010

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Chris Wooldridge of Cardiff University points out, “When the port sector started environmental research and development fifteen years ago, the initiative was focussed on cargo handling at the quay side, but now…

23rd December 2010

Developing roles

23rd December 2010

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

The liner industry has entered the slow season. Normally the peak season comes around late August through early October, but this year it came early in the July-August period.

22nd December 2010

No Christmas stocking for box ports

22nd December 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

HFWs Donny Low discusses developments in the Australian port scene

22nd December 2010

Containing the ore outbreak

22nd December 2010

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

As the shipping industry responds to new IMO fuel regulations, it should be looking to work more closely with the port sector to introduce alternative, environmentally-friendly, fuels. James S. Cannon, President, Energy…

20th December 2010

US container ports and air pollution: the IMO challenge

20th December 2010

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Martin Rushmere finds out why Californias Oakland has put itself in overdrive

20th December 2010

First call drive

20th December 2010

AFRICA

AFRICA

South African port operator Transnet Port Terminals has installed the Refcon system at its Cape Town terminal to remotely carry out temperature checks on refrigerated shipping containers.

18th December 2010

Reefer monitoring streamlines checks

18th December 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Pacific Coast ports are mostly taking a wait-and-see attitude to the impact of the expanded Panama Canal in 2014.

17th December 2010

Ports hold back on Canal congratulations

17th December 2010

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

Ports are placed at the waterfront, so the potential environmental impact of activities are manifold, writes José Fernandez Garcia. Here he gives an overview of a new set of guidelines that aim…

16th December 2010

At the waterfront

16th December 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

The French Institute of Independent Financial Studies and Piedrabuena have offered to take over a stalled project to build the Port of Río Grande in Argentina. The debt owed by the original…

16th December 2010

French seek to revive Argentinean terminal project

16th December 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Tideworks has launched the next generation of its terminal operating system, Mainsail Vanguard.

16th December 2010

Tideworks unfurls latest mainsail

16th December 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Dry bulk shipper Thoresen Thai Agencies is to spend some 346.38m baht ($12m) to buy a strategic stake in Vietnam’s Baria Serece, which controls Phu My port, it has confirmed.

15th December 2010

Thai shipper buys into Vietnamese port

15th December 2010

ASIA

ASIA

India’s Vizhinjam Port has invited tender bids from the 31 companies that submitted expressions of interest for operating the proposed port.

15th December 2010

Third time’s a charm for Vizhinjam

15th December 2010

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The head of the UNs Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ricardo Sanchez, has said that Latin American governments need to redefine their port policies as a means of integrating…

15th December 2010

Latin Americans need port policies

15th December 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Clydeport has taken delivery of a new Hyster H18.00XM-12EC empty container handler to support its growing import and export operation at the Greenock Ocean Terminal, which expects an annual container throughput of…

15th December 2010

Container handler for Clydeport

15th December 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

US government maritime policy is certain to change with the defeat of the Democrat who chaired the Congressional committee in charge of port affairs.

15th December 2010

Mixed results expected from Congressional shake-up

15th December 2010

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

The head of the UNs Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ricardo Sanchez, has said that Latin American governments need to redefine their port policies as a means of integrating…

15th December 2010

Latin Americans need port policies

15th December 2010