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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Highly flexible Mobile Harbour Cranes can go anywhere and handle many types of cargo, but they are not without their limitations, as Alex Hughes finds out

6th February 2009

Mobile Harbour Cranes

6th February 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The IMO Facilitation Committee (FAL), the body that promotes smooth transition of shipping between international ports and offshore terminals, has cleared the last hurdle to it becoming a fully fledged institution of…

5th February 2009

No Red Tape committee through red tape

5th February 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Georgian Port of Poti has sold a 49% stake to RAK Investment Authority of the UAE for $65m; the same company had earlier bought the other 51% for $90m.

5th February 2009

UAE buys Poti

5th February 2009

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

By now, the best run ports and terminals in the world will know who theyare. They have been courted with, and in, endearing terms by underwriters whocast longing eyes at the facilities…

4th February 2009

The Insurer

4th February 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Vietnams Tan Tao (ITA) group has issued a tender for the construction of a power plant and sea port complex in Kien Giang province, some 300 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City.

4th February 2009

Major coal port for Vietnam

4th February 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Louise Ellman, UK MP for Liverpool Riverside, has again taken her fight against port rate rises, and the attempt of the UK Valuation Office Agency to push through three years of backdated…

4th February 2009

Rates – no handing back the yolk

4th February 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Polish container terminal operator DCT Gdansk passed the 100,000 teu mark ahead of expectations in mid December, helped by the arrival of Maersk Line at the port on the 1 December.

4th February 2009

Gdansk tops 100,000 teu in 2008

4th February 2009

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The new Doha Port in Qatar is to be designed through a partnership between WorleyParsons Qatar WLL and Royal Haskoning, which will develop the ports master plan and full engineering design.

4th February 2009

Doha to have Dutch design

4th February 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Perus port authority, APN  has met port operator DP World to express concerns about the latters plans to modernise a second terminal at Limas Callao port.

4th February 2009

Peru ports

4th February 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Mexicos mega-port of Punta Colonet looks set to among the casualties of the world financial crisis.

4th February 2009

Punta Colonet delay

4th February 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Los Angeles has rebuked negative claims in local media about its Clean Trucks Program.

4th February 2009

Not running on empty says LA

4th February 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Toledo Port Authority and Melford International Terminal have signed an agreement which will see Toledo function as an inland port receiving boxes from a projected new container terminal that Melford plans to…

4th February 2009

Toledo strikes Novia Scotia deal

4th February 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kalmar has delivered its 4,500th straddle carrier to Eurogate at Bremerhaven, Germany.

4th February 2009

Kalmars 4,500th straddle carrier

4th February 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Indonesias coal ports have forced a rethink on traditional handling options

3rd February 2009

Coal port logistics

3rd February 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Rotterdam Port Authority has invited bids for construction of phase two of its Euromax Terminal, despite the fact that phase one has yet to be completed. The work involves building 300 metres…

3rd February 2009

Euromax stage two tender

3rd February 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in the Baltic is to go ahead with construction of a new port at Baltiijsk.

3rd February 2009

Kaliningrad hub project gathers steam

3rd February 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

São Sebastião Port Authority is seeking government help to undertake restructuring of the port, where it is hoping to build a further four deep water berths. These will be developed and operated…

3rd February 2009

São Sebastião turns to government

3rd February 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Livorno port in Italy has invested in a set of six all-electric RTGs from Kalmar. Two cranes have just been delivered and the rest are expected in the summer of 2009.

3rd February 2009

Electric RTGs for multipurpose port

3rd February 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Tianjin port in northern China handled 354m tonnes in 2008, compared with 300m tonnes in 2007. Container traffic, at 8.5m teu, was up 19.7%

2nd February 2009

Traffic up at Tianjin

2nd February 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Plans to move cargo terminals away from the Saigon River outside Ho Chi Minh City are unlikely to be fulfilled before 2010, because of a lack of investment capital.

2nd February 2009

Capital shortage holds up Saigon

2nd February 2009