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REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

Conflicting dredging legislation can lead to inappropriate decisions being made that relate to local circumstances. Roger Morris*, of Bright Angel Coastal Consultants, considers the issues

16th March 2010

Dredging and nature conservation: one problem – many issues

16th March 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Rail and road links are opening apace – necessary since China is pulling in larger and larger amounts of natural resources through its ports.

16th March 2010

On the right tracks

16th March 2010

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

REGULATION & POLICY GREENPORT

Christer Ågren, of the Air Pollution & Climate Secretariat (AirClim), outlines the proposal to designate the Baltic Sea as a NOX emission control area

15th March 2010

Charge NOX emissions from ships

15th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

One of the seven short-listed ports for the ESPO Societal Integration Award, the Port of Algeciras is not just concerned with urban-planning or landscaping, but also with a wider social reality. GreenPort…

15th March 2010

Algeciras: focus on social reality

15th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Ports in Poland are now applying environmental policy – even though there is often confusion between European and Polish legislation. Kasia Kurek, of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, reviews the environmental initiatives that are…

15th March 2010

Legal uncertainty hinders Polish port development

15th March 2010

ASIA

ASIA

APM terminals’ Asia Pacific operation has been in the thick of the recent industry upheavals, and while there are some positives signs of growth, the squeeze is still on.

15th March 2010

A value-for-money approach

15th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Bromma continues to win major new orders for its all-electric GreenLine spreaders, including very strong demand for its single lift all-electric yard units. Bromma has won orders for nearly 70 GreenLine spreaders…

14th March 2010

Over 70 GreenLine spreader orders for Bromma

14th March 2010

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

Energy efficient marine equipment will contribute to an even more environmentally friendly mode of transport, says EMEC, the European Marine Equipment Council

14th March 2010

Green maritime technologies

14th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Norfolk Southern Corporation’s sustainability initiatives have earned the company recognition as one of 25 green supply chain partners named by Inbound Logistics magazine.

12th March 2010

Norfolk Southern a top ‘green’ company

12th March 2010

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Polarcus, a leading marine geophysical company, has announced that it is using Castrol Marine’s range of environmentally responsible lubricants. The company has teamed up with Castrol Marine, one of the leading global…

12th March 2010

Polarcus partners with Castrol to enhance green credentials

12th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Work on deepening the Western Scheldt will start in a few weeks, now that the Council of State in the Netherlands has given the go-ahead. According to Flemish minister of public works…

12th March 2010

Dutch go-ahead for Scheldt deepening

12th March 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The latest United States budget has moved away from the aim of scanning 100% of US-bound container cargo at over 700 foreign ports.

11th March 2010

US abandons 100% scanning target

11th March 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

The battle for Forth Ports, owner of some of the UK’s largest facilities, is heating up with the company’s share price positively reflecting the strong interest.

11th March 2010

Forth bids spark expectations

11th March 2010

ASIA

ASIA

A port survey has shown that the total investment earmarked for expansion and renovation projects along the 2,838km navigable length of the Yangtze river now comes to around $4bn.

11th March 2010

Yangtze aims higher – and deeper

11th March 2010

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

Global cabling systems group, Nexans, control systems specialist, Advanced Microwave Engineering (AME) and sensor solutions producer SICK, are to become members of the Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA), in a move that…

11th March 2010

Three new PEMA members

11th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

With its “Port and City Together” Project, the Port of Gijón, Spain, was the first winner of the ESPO Societal Integration award. GreenPort Journal interviews the President of the Port of Gijón,…

11th March 2010

Gijón: “Port and City Together”

11th March 2010

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Simon Bennett, secretary, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), reviews the Copenhagen Conference and the implications for the global shipping industry

11th March 2010

Reducing shipping’s CO2 emissions: what next after Copenhagen?

11th March 2010

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

The previously intimate Shanghai and Hong Kong now seem like strangers, as Stevie Knight discovers

11th March 2010

Worlds apart

11th March 2010

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

Port of Los Angeles is vying with neighbouring Long Beach in implementing a series of initiatives aimed at improving the port’s environmental performance. The port is entering into negotiations with Los Angeles…

10th March 2010

LA to assess fuel-cell trucks

10th March 2010

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

There are still some very strange things that go on in the ports sector – things that unless you have a vested interest don’t seem to add up at all.

10th March 2010

Dumb and dumber

10th March 2010