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EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Global engineering group, Cavotec MSL, has appointed Christer Granskog, former CEO of Kalmar Industries, to the Cavotec Board of Directors.

1st November 2008

Granskog joins Cavotec Board

1st November 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

The port authorities of Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Reunion and Seychelles are all members of the Association of Ports of the Indian Ocean Islands (APIOI), which was officially established last year.

31st October 2008

Association provides common platform

31st October 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Algeciras Bay Port Authority has agreed a series of very modest container traffic figures over the next five years.

31st October 2008

Algeciras downbeat on short term box figures

31st October 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

Former chief operating officer for Transnets container business, Solly Letsoalo has taken over as chief of operations at the company. Reporting to Mr Letsoalo will be a team of divisional executive managers,…

31st October 2008

Transnet appointments

31st October 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

Kenya Port Authority unexpectedly cancelled a tender for a second grain handler at the port of Mombasa just three days before the bidding deadline.

31st October 2008

Mombasa cancels tender for second grain handler

31st October 2008

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

After successfully completing the testing phase, Siemens Energy and the Lübeck utility have commissioned Germany’s first shoreside power supply system for merchant shipping. The shoreside power supply, installed at the port of…

31st October 2008

First shore-side power supply for merchant shipping in Germany

31st October 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A dedicated bulk ports corporation is to be set up in Queensland with another body set to administer the far norths smaller community ports.

30th October 2008

Port body to service north-east

30th October 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Spanish Port of Valencia has overtaken Algeciras as the countrys leading container port.

30th October 2008

Valencia no 1 Spanish box port

30th October 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A new container recognition system is being installed at the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium. This will be the first port in Europe to take up the technology after its successful deployment…

30th October 2008

Container recognition in Europe

30th October 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The European Commission has decided not to raise objections to plans to extend a scheme piloted by Austria’s federal government, aimed at promoting a modal shift to inland waterways. Under the pilot…

30th October 2008

Green light for Danube environmental initiative

30th October 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

Madagascar International Container Terminal at Toamasina, run by Philippines-based International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) through a 20-year concession signed in 2005, is also looking for transhipment; Madagascar International Container Terminal Services (MICTS)…

29th October 2008

Madagascar investment continues

29th October 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

Port Reunion is looking to increase its transhipment business, and the expansion of its container terminal this year is a key part of this ambition.

29th October 2008

Port Reunion

29th October 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

UK Transport Minister Jim Fitzpatrick has announced a £67m boost to the Sustainable Distribution Fund that will help the freight industry reduce costs and cut emissions.

29th October 2008

Funding to cut freight emissions

29th October 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

A new free publication ‘Choosing and Developing a Multi-Modal Transport Solution’ has been published by the Freight Best Practice programme. This new Guide examines how to approach the use of rail or…

29th October 2008

Multi-Modal guide from Freight Best Practice

29th October 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port Taranaki recorded a comparably flat net after-tax profit of NZ$4.76m (US$2.9m), 16% rise in revenue to NZ$43m (US$26.4m) and new container throughput record of 59,586 teu during the 2007-2008 financial year.…

28th October 2008

Sinking property values hit NZ financials

28th October 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Pro-democracy demonstrations in Thailand have begun to impact negatively on the nations ports. Bangkok has in recent months already suffered a complete one-day shutdown due to agitation from anti-government protesters, prompting prompted…

27th October 2008

Demonstrators close Bangkok

27th October 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Freeport Container Terminal in the Bahamas is to undertake an upgrade programme costing $300m.

27th October 2008

Major investment for Freeport

27th October 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The “Funding Guide for Inland Waterway Transport in Europe” - one of the instruments of the European Commission’s NAIADES Action Programme - was officially launched on 1 October by Jonathan Scheele, Director…

27th October 2008

Funding Guide for Inland Waterway Transport

27th October 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Maersk has slashed the number of containers it handles at Kaohsiung by 20%, less than the rumoured 50% reduction. The company will no longer call at berths 118 or 119, instead transferring…

26th October 2008

Maersk downsizes at Kaohsiung

26th October 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Bypass East road in Duisburg-Rheinhausen has been officially opened enabling the heavy vehicle traffic of around 1700 trucks daily to be directed via a new roundabout and the new Osloer Strasse…

26th October 2008

Roundabout steers trucks to log port

26th October 2008