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AFRICA

AFRICA

Cape Town container terminals expansion project has seen several milestones in recent months, and the upward trajectory is set to continue for the next five years while the countrys second-largest port continues…

3rd August 2009

Capacity boost continues at Cape Town

3rd August 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Mexico  should launch the tender for the Peso50bn ($3.75bn) Punta Colonet port project, in Baja California state, to prepare the country  for future growth opportunities as and when the global economic crisis…

3rd August 2009

Punta Colonet still needed

3rd August 2009

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Last week the Council of State in the Netherlands suspended the routing decree and one of the implementation permits for deepening the navigation channel in the Western Scheldt. The routing decree covers…

3rd August 2009

Dutch Council of State suspends routing decree on Western Scheldt

3rd August 2009

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Ships at the Port of Seattle have reduced emissions of sulfur dioxide by at least 80 percent and diesel particulate matter by 60 percent through an innovative program called At-Berth Clean Fuels.…

3rd August 2009

Air Emissions from Ships Decline at Port of Seattle

3rd August 2009

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Is it worthinvesting in all-singing, all-dancing scanning technology following US diktats?Possibly not, as Carly Fields finds out

2nd August 2009

Snags of scanning

2nd August 2009

AFRICA

AFRICA

A new container terminal is scheduled to be operational at Mombasa by 2013. A Japanese loan of $207m will fund construction costs of the facility which will be able to handle 1.2m…

2nd August 2009

Japan to finance Mombasa box terminal

2nd August 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

As from July, Muelles El Bosque Operadores Portuarios will commence handling of dry bulk traffic at the Colombian port of Buenaventura. Its new terminal will be able to unload up to 10,000…

2nd August 2009

New operator at Buenaventura

2nd August 2009

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Tentativesigns of recovery are starting to emerge, as Carly Fields finds out

1st August 2009

Clearer skies

1st August 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port Otago chief executive Geoff Plunket said until Dunedin suffers the traffic congestion that makes inland ports economically-viable in Auckland, such an initiative is not warranted in his region. KiwiRail had raised…

1st August 2009

Otago inland port dismissed

1st August 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Teesport in the UK is beginning to make its mark as a shortsea shipping hub, with growing connections to northern Europe.

1st August 2009

shortsea hub status for Teesport

1st August 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has had a hard time recently, given the level of investment needed for its expansion and the scarcity of ships in the present climate.

1st August 2009

Panama and Philly get together

1st August 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Maersk Line New Zealand country manager Julian Bevis says the chance of vessels bigger than the current-largest of 4100 teu coming to New Zealand in the short term is relatively small. However,…

31st July 2009

Larger callers doubtful

31st July 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Plans to build a second seaport in Sochi, Russia, at a cost of $272m have been abandoned. Instead, 10 other sites have been identified for the storing and transhipment cargo.

31st July 2009

Second Sochi port abandoned

31st July 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Classification society RINA has launched new voluntary environmental standards to allow ships to connect to shore-based electricity while in port, reducing harbour air pollution.

31st July 2009

Plug-in port standards set

31st July 2009

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Plans to set up a single entity port authority for the Pilbara region have been ditched by the Western Australia Government. A change of government from Labor to Liberal preceded the decision…

30th July 2009

Pilbara multi-port authorities safe

30th July 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Uruguays government has submitted a bill to congress for the construction of a new $260m port in capital Montevideo, the president of Uruguays national port authority  Fernando Puntigliano, has said.

30th July 2009

Monty

30th July 2009

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Changing the waycranes use energy can have a major positive impact on energy use, asABB have proved with the introduction of their automatic cranes.

29th July 2009

ABB cranes go the regenerative route

29th July 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Bucking the weak global operating climate, Valencia port authority has confirmed to Port Strategy that its proposed extension works are running to schedule, and that it does not intend to postpone the…

29th July 2009

Valencia expansion on track

29th July 2009

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

The use of electric vehicles saves a great deal of oil, but arguablyshifts the demand from one type of fossil hydrocarbon to another, onthe basis that the electricity has to come from…

28th July 2009

Los Angeles looks to the sun for answers

28th July 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Government planners in Brazil have identified three possible new port sites in Sã o Paolo State. Two are at Ubatuba on the northern coast and one at Peruí be on the south…

28th July 2009

Three new ports for São Paulo

28th July 2009