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ASIA

ASIA

The Maersk Shipping Line has revealed that it retains a keen interest in the Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas, where it controls a 30% equity stake.

18th March 2009

Maersk still wedded to PTP

18th March 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Green demonstrators keen to halt development of Tenerifes Granadilla port marched through the streets of Santa Cruz in protest - but estimations of numbers involved vary wildly.

18th March 2009

Port protester take to the streets

18th March 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Mutual insurer TT Club has recommended that port and terminal operators fit electronic sensor devices to all quayside crane booms to prevent them accidentally colliding.

18th March 2009

Crane sensors could save thousands

18th March 2009

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Inland shipping operators will be able to purchase clean fuel all over Europe by 2011. The decision made at the end of December by the European Parliament is part of EU efforts…

17th March 2009

Cleaner fuel for Europe’s barge owners

17th March 2009

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Thetraditional role of surveillance systems has been to identify incidentsand allow a reaction to them - but what if the camera view could beused proactively to change port operations hour by hour…

17th March 2009

Camera systems can learn from the past to change the future

17th March 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Liebherr has recently completed the supply of two 16-wheel rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) to Cerescorps Termont Terminal in Montreal, Canada. This brings the number of Liebherr cranes at the terminal to…

17th March 2009

Liebherr grows its Montreal family

17th March 2009

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Over the past ten years the Port of Gothenburg has invested heavily in increasing the volume of goods moved by train to and from the port, with dedicated trailer trains now running…

16th March 2009

Gothenburg makes green tracks

16th March 2009

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

PIANC has published a new Position Paper entitled “Working with Nature”. This important paper has evolved through an iterative process involving PIANC’s Environmental Commission (EnviCom), PIANC’s partner associations on EnviCom (particularly the…

16th March 2009

PIANC’s ‘Working with Nature’ Paper

16th March 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Experts in the Far East have suggested that more than one third of the current number of shipping companies may go bankrupt in 2009, because of the global economic downturn.

16th March 2009

A third of shipping lines face bankruptcy

16th March 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The global economic downturn could be a blessing in disguise for the port industry and investors in the industry, according to APM Terminals chief executive Kim Fejfer.

16th March 2009

Downturn blessing in disguise

16th March 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

While considerable buzz surrounds potential infrastructure investment by the US Federal Government, a record-sized privatisation transaction may be in the offing, perhaps part of a broader  resurgence of public-private-partnerships in the US…

16th March 2009

U.S. Port Infrastructure- Return of PPP

16th March 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The southern Argentinian port of Madryn has suffered significant reduction in the export of many of its core products: aluminium, fish, wool, stone and ceramics. Port workers are worried that high charges…

16th March 2009

Madryn traffic down

16th March 2009

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

BMT Defence Services Limited, a subsidiary of BMT Group, is heading a consortium of 30 companies to investigate the commercially effective application of electric ship technology in a €23M European Union funded…

15th March 2009

Major environmental/electric shipping study planned

15th March 2009

AFRICA

AFRICA

South Africas Transnet Port Terminals has opted for NICE surveillance equipment to improve security at its ports and ensure compliance with countrys infrastructure regulations.

14th March 2009

Nice for SA

14th March 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Glencore and nine Colombian coal mining companies are planning to build a new port in the north of the country costing $1bn and capable of exporting 60m tonnes of coal annually.

14th March 2009

New Colombian coal port planned

14th March 2009

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The TT Club is strongly urging all operators of mobile equipment to be aware of the risk of hydraulic fires. Laurence Jones, the TT Club’s Director Global Risk Assessment says that mobile…

14th March 2009

TT club warns of mobile equipment fire hazard

14th March 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Swedens Port of Gothenburg has awarded a second software contract to Total Soft Bank to install the providers Port Logistics Unifying System in place of the ports vessel traffic management system.

13th March 2009

TSB supports Gothenburg

13th March 2009

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Drewry Shipping Consultants, the world’s leading maritime consultants, in its latest Container Forecast.’ Concludes that 2009 will be the toughest test yet for the Container industry and further casualties are a real…

13th March 2009

2009: Toughest year yet

13th March 2009

ASIA

ASIA

A new port is to be built at the Cambodian capital city of Phnom Penh. The facility, which is due to enter service by the end of this year or early next…

12th March 2009

New Cambodian port

12th March 2009

ASIA

ASIA

The Indian government has given its approval for three port projects involving public-private partnership deals costing $409m. These encompass container terminals at Ennore ($282m) and Tuticorin ($62m), as well as a coal…

12th March 2009

Three Indian PPPs

12th March 2009