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POST SCRIPT

What goes thud, thud, thud? Sound of a small container vessel skating along a quayside in an erratic departure?

1st June 2006

Thud, Thud, Thud

1st June 2006

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

The UK Ports Policy Review Roadshow rolled into London on 25 May and was the focus of some serious attention as well as merriment by industry participants and analysts alike.

1st June 2006

Question Time

1st June 2006

EUROPE

EUROPE

Experience in the UK demonstrates that ports can pull significant business that never actually goes over their quays. Felicity Landon reports When is a port not a port? When it is a…

1st June 2006

Get it where you can

1st June 2006

ASIA

ASIA

The Chinese Communications Minister Li Shenglin has revealed the government has a policy aimed at creating two new port clusters to add to the three existing ones centred on Shanghai, Shenzhen and…

1st June 2006

Chinese container clusters planned

1st June 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

APM Terminals, CMA-CGM, DP World, ETA, ICTS, Gammon Infrastructure, IL&FS, GVK, Soma Enterprises and Concor are all interested in bidding. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is to provide funding…

1st June 2006

ZAMBIA TO GET NAMIBIAN DRY PORT

1st June 2006

ASIA

ASIA

Feeder vessel operators are threatening to slap a $130 surcharge on each TEU that they have to handle at the port of Chittagong unless congestion there decreases within the next month. At…

1st June 2006

Feeder surcharge at Chittagong

1st June 2006

ASIA

ASIA

APM Terminals, CMA-CGM, DP World, ETA, ICTS, Gammon Infrastructure, IL&FS, GVK, Soma Enterprises and Concor are all interested in bidding. Indian shippers are hoping to employ new draft legislation, the Shipping and…

1st June 2006

SHIPPER ACTION

1st June 2006

ASIA

ASIA

DP World is expected to issue a tender for the design of a $450m container terminal in the Indian port of Kochi, which is located in the southern state of Kerala.

1st June 2006

DP World to invest $450m in Kochi

1st June 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Hopes are that the port will serve Vietnam's future in global commerce.The Port of Mombasa, Kenya is to refurbish its berths 7-10. The port has called for tenders to this effect as…

1st June 2006

MOMBASA REFURBISH

1st June 2006

ASIA

ASIA

The bid process for the Mumbai offshore container terminal continues to be extended much to the irritation of the port trust and a number of the bidders.

1st June 2006

Mumbai saga rolls on

1st June 2006

ASIA

ASIA

The Indian Ports Association is backing the development of a centralised Web-based Port Community System.

1st June 2006

IPA COMMUNITY SYSTEM

1st June 2006

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Informed sources indicate that a major roadblock is the issue of Hutchison Port Holdings getting security clearance to bid for the project. The Cabinet Committee on Internal Security, which met in March…

1st June 2006

PRIVATISED ISRAELI PORTS FIRST ANNIVERSARY

1st June 2006

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Informed sources indicate that a major roadblock is the issue of Hutchison Port Holdings getting security clearance to bid for the project. The Cabinet Committee on Internal Security, which met in March…

1st June 2006

QASIM DREDGE AND..

1st June 2006

ASIA

ASIA

Part of the Port of Singapore Authoritys recent purchase of a stake in Hutchison Ports (see International Terminal Operator story this issue) is to be financed by an offshore bond.

1st June 2006

PSA BOND ISSUE

1st June 2006

ASIA

ASIA

The Phase 2 development of Karachis Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT) is due for completion by the end of June.

1st June 2006

PICT boosting capacity

1st June 2006

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Qasim has also issued a call for expressions of interest to build a second container terminal on a BOT basis.

1st June 2006

..BOT BOX SCHEME

1st June 2006

EUROPE

EUROPE

"The main problem in Italy is the lack of infrastructure and deficiencies in the rail network, " he said. "Some is very old.The end of May saw continuing computer problems at ECT…

1st June 2006

I.T. HEADACHE

1st June 2006

EUROPE

EUROPE

At the beginning of April, Le Havre Port Authority inaugurated part of its planned Port 2000 development, which has cost ¢ 700m. This has 1.4km of quay line out of a possible…

1st June 2006

Port 2000 development now partially operational

1st June 2006

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Steve Cameron* argues that the maritime employment market will benefit from greater facilitation of personnel movements between sectors 45Anyone who reads the maritime press on a regular basis will have heard the…

1st June 2006

Career transitions: an agenda

1st June 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Savannah handled 173,415TEU in the month of April 2006, a 12.7 per cent increase over the same period last year.

1st June 2006

Savannah growth

1st June 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Colombian port of Cartagena handled 549,860TEU last year and is anticipating growth in 2006 of more than 150,000 additional containers. This is due to the arrival, in March, of a new…

1st June 2006

Cartagena seeking regional hub status

1st June 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Santos Port Authority (Codesp) is to develop a major new operating area at Barnabe Bagre as a public-private partnership in tandem with the Federal Government. This will expand this particular zone of…

1st June 2006

Santos develops huge expansion programme . . .

1st June 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The main container terminals at the port of Santos intend to increase their productivity this year through the purchase of new cranes financed through tax breaks made available by the government.

1st June 2006

. . . and operators add equipment

1st June 2006