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EUROPE

EUROPE

Salerno Container Terminal has opened its doors to US Customs officials as the first commercial port in Italy to become operational under the US Container Security Initiative.

1st April 2007

Salerno signs up to US initiative

1st April 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Kalmar has won a comprehensive maintenance deal from Cargo Service at the Port of Aarhus, Denmark for 19 new Kalmar straddle carriers, due for delivery in spring 2007.The all-inclusive contract, which includes…

1st April 2007

CARGO SERVICE CONTRACT

1st April 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Spanish shipping line Contenemar has asked Vilagarcía Port authority for 50,000 sq m of land on which to build a container terminal. The company wants to move two Canary Island and Moroccan…

1st April 2007

Contenemar shift to Vilagarcía

1st April 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

British Waterways has announced that an £ 18.9m project to open up Londons East End rivers, giving direct access by water to the Olympic Park area,has finally been given the go-ahead.

1st April 2007

Prescott Lock to go ahead

1st April 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

A number of targeted, small scale investment projects underway at Europes ports are expected to bring improvements to cross-Channel freight transport.

1st April 2007

Full IMPACTE of freight shift proposal

1st April 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

ECT Delta terminal in Rotterdam is no longer accepting empty containers as a means of reducing the dwell time of boxes in the terminal.

1st April 2007

Rotterdams ECT bans empties

1st April 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST 1st April 2007

IRANIAN PORTS PRIVATISATION

1st April 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

DP World has announced investment of more than $8.2bn in the development of 10 new ports and upgrade work at three others. Among its largest schemes are a $459m new box terminal…

1st April 2007

DP WORLD TO INVEST $8.2BN

1st April 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

Mombasa is suffering major congestion, due to vessels switching from the neighbouring port of Dar es Salaam, where congestion is even worse. Importers are also being blamed because of the slow clearance…

1st April 2007

MAJOR MOMBASA CONGESTION

1st April 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Existing companies at the port of Tema have called upon Ghana Ports andHarbours Authority to scrap an agreement that it has with a foreignconsortium, Meridian Port Services (MPS), to operate the containerterminal. 

1st April 2007

MAERSK MONOPOLY FEARED

1st April 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

Kenyas Transport Minister has labelled as unrealistic plans to privatise container handling at the port of Mombasa.

1st April 2007

Mombasa to stay in public hands

1st April 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

By 2010, capacity across all Iran is ports will have reached 150m tonnes, compared with 115m tonnes at present.

1st April 2007

Iran boosts capacity at ports

1st April 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Eight consortia have sought prequalification to bid for the Khalifa and Industrial Zone project, with initial infrastructure work scheduled to commence by mid-year, claims Abu Dhabi Port Company.

1st April 2007

Eight in for Khalifa

1st April 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The port of Sohar in Oman has attracted $12bn of industrial and infrastructure investment in under three years, prompting its corporate communications manager Dirk-Jan de Vink to note that it was now…

1st April 2007

Sohar attracts serious investment

1st April 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The plan announced by Liberias National Port Authority to lay off 350 workers because of financial difficulties has been challenged by the Dock Workers Union.

1st April 2007

REDUNDANCY OPPOSED

1st April 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The government of the state of São Paulo has requested that the central government cedes control of the port of Santos to it. However, any transfer must be free of the ¢…

1st April 2007

GOVERNMENT CHASES SANTOS CONTROL

1st April 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The government of Venezuela has recognised that there is a developing problem with stranded containers clogging the stacking yards of its box terminals, because of the difficulty some companies have in acquiring…

1st April 2007

VENEZUELAN BOX BLOCK

1st April 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

South Carolina State Ports Authority has extended an agreement with Savi Networks to introduce the companys information service to three further container terminals at the Port of Charleston.The radio frequency identification (RFID)…

1st April 2007

CAROLINA SAVI PARTNERSHIP

1st April 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

US states Georgia and South Carolina have inked a landmark agreement to jointly develop a port in Jasper County, South Carolina. 

1st April 2007

Southern ports to follow in NY/NJ footsteps

1st April 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Panamas Ministry of Commerce has indicated that planned investment of $1.5bn over the next eight years will effectively double national port capacity. In all, $200m will be used to expand the port…

1st April 2007

$1.5bn reserved for Panamanian ports

1st April 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Terminal Marítima Infraestructura Portuaria Mexicana, situated in the port of Altamira, is to invest $12m in new equipment to include a Liebherr post-panamax mobile harbour crane that can service 18 rows of…

1st April 2007

Altamira investment

1st April 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Nicaraguas National Port Authority is to borrow $50m over the next five years to invest in upgrading ports.

1st April 2007

Nicaragua to invest at least $50m

1st April 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The proposed multi-purpose terminal at the port of Tampico is not viable, because it will increase congestion in the surrounding urban area, a heavily touristic area, local sources have said.

1st April 2007

No space for Tampico terminal

1st April 2007