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NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Panama Maritime Authority is to invest more than $700,000 across 10 minor ports.Work will involve minor repairs and upgrades to buildings and infrastructure. 

1st June 2007

Panama invests in minor ports

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Mexican Minero Lobos group has made public its decision to support the Punta Colonet port tender, which is being put together by the Transport Ministry.

1st June 2007

PUNTA COLONET SUPPORT

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Tacoma, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Maritime Air Forum, has released a scientific study measuring maritime-related air emissions in Puget Sound.The inventory will form a baseline for future…

1st June 2007

PUGET EMISSIONS BENCHMARK

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Santos Port Authority is to put out to concession nine terminals by 2010. 

1st June 2007

Nine Santos terminals up for grabs

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port Authority of Houston and Galveston has signed an agreement to build a new container terminal on Pelican Island, which is situated to the north of Galveston Island.

1st June 2007

New Galveston hub plan

1st June 2007

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The estimated global port-related cost of implementing the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code has been put at between $1.1bn and $2.3bn initially, with annual costs thereafter of between $400m…

1st June 2007

ISPS an easy, but expensive, pill to swallow

1st June 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Bremen/Bremerhaven secures feedership role for the future as JadeWeserPort project gets go-ahead. Tom Todd reports

1st May 2007

Future-proof

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Few now appear to doubt the future strategic importance of what will be Germany’ s only deep-water container terminal: the idea, once scoffed at, appears to have literally grown on Germans. 

1st May 2007

Changing tide of German opinion

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

City hopes to boost future port prospects with a majority share sell off to an experienced port operator, as Tom Todd reports

1st May 2007

Lübecks share sights

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Germany’ s easternmost deep-water port,Sassnitz- Mukran, expects planned new rail-ferry links this year with Russia will help solve its problem of unused capacity and hopes more cruiseships will fill the rest. 

1st May 2007

Sassnitz-Mukran eager to fill unused capacity

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Kiel’ s focus on the two Cs of cruise and cargo should keep it on a steady course, as Tom Todd reports

1st May 2007

Double-edged strategy

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Although best known for booming ferry and ro-ro traffic, east Germany’ s biggest port, Rostock, continues to surprise, with eggs in many baskets as part of a strategy of universal, multisector development. 

1st May 2007

Multi-sector plan encourages Rostock cargo growth

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Steel handling specialist WE Dowds says unloading vessels and filling up warehouses is “ the relatively straightforward part” . “ The real challenge, and the benchmark we use to gauge how well…

1st May 2007

Facing the real challenges

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Liebherr registers five to 10 secondhand deals for mobile harbour cranes each year,compared will sales of around 70 new units. In the reachstacker business, where the company has a more reduced presence,…

1st May 2007

Second-hand still a niche market

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Not all second-hand equipment is good equipment. Alex Hughes finds out that you need guarantees, quality assurance and, crucially, spares

1st May 2007

Panning for gold

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

BMT’ s ports and logistics division says it receives two or three serious enquiries every year to help terminal operators identify second-hand equipment. Managing director David Wignall explains why punters engage a…

1st May 2007

Second-hand sourcing neednt be a minefield

1st May 2007

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Port operators are used to being bombarded with new rules and regulations – and environmental “ issues” generally lead the field. Felicity Landon reports

1st May 2007

Legislation overload

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Manufacturers of auto-mooring equipment for ports and harbours see only benefits for users,as David Foxwell explains

1st May 2007

Faster, safer, more secure

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Patrick Rosenwald, technical director of Cavotec Specimas, believes that the benefits of the MoorMaster automated mooring system are best illustrated by the results of testing done at the Port of Salalah in…

1st May 2007

Salalah tests put MoorMaster through its paces

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Hamburg is under pressure to accommodate future growth, widely anticipated to be double existing capacity, as Tom Todd discovers

1st May 2007

Dizzying demands

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Kotkas monster gate operating system will unite two competing operators without compromising data privacy. Felicity Landon reports

1st May 2007

Finnish record breakers

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

A review of Scottish ports’ policy produced few recommendations for change, instead it highlighted the importance of landside infrastructure links, as David Foxwell reports

1st May 2007

Lack of Spark

1st May 2007

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

The Port of Dakar, Senegal is reportedly in the process of privatising its container terminal facilities – or is it? 

1st May 2007

Show your hand

1st May 2007