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TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

For little or no cost, ports can saves thousands by optimising the way they use energy, but key to it all is awareness and communication, as Patrik Wheater finds out

7th October 2008

Please turn off the light!

7th October 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

More than $2bn will be invested in container and ro-ro facilities at Russias Baltic ports over the next four years. At present, a significant proportion of this traffic passes through ports in…

7th October 2008

Russia upgrades Baltic ports

7th October 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Costa Ricas Atlantic Port Authority (Japdeva) is seeking to implement privatisation of Limón Port by the end of the current year to improve the short term outlook for the port.

7th October 2008

Limón concession desperately needed to boost efficiency

7th October 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

A two-month delay in privatising El Salvadors La Unión-Acajutla port system, after one of the parties in the ruling coalition raised serious objections to bidding rules, has pushed the tender back to…

7th October 2008

Delay in El Salvador privatisation

7th October 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Dave MacIntyre learns it’s best to go direct to get the definitive line on best fender practise.

6th October 2008

The horse’s mouth

6th October 2008

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

As part of its “Pledge for Growth” environmental initiative, the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) has released the first port air emissions inventory ever compiled in the Southeast of the USA,…

5th October 2008

SCSPA completes air emissions inventory

5th October 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

A cutting-edge automated gate is now in operation at the Pier 1 Container Terminal in Durban.

5th October 2008

SA Ports New Technology Goes Live

5th October 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

Implementation of a $1.24bn expansion project by South Africas Transnet Port Terminals is being hampered by a critical skills shortage.

5th October 2008

Skills shortage in South African ports

5th October 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

Modernisation has begun off Angolas Lobito Commercial Port at a cost of $1.8bn. New infrastructure is planned, while existing installations are to be upgraded.

4th October 2008

Lobito modernised

4th October 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Belgium-based Vigan Engineering is to be the major supplier for the new Fauji Abkar Portia Marine Terminals project, a joint programme between the Fauji Foundation and the Akbar Group.

4th October 2008

South Africa goes with the grain

4th October 2008

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Mitsui OSK Lines and California based Clean Air Logics, Inc have successfully tested a liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled shore power supply system on the containership MOL Enterprise (4,500 TEU).

3rd October 2008

MOL tests LNG-fueled shore power system

3rd October 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

A Chile-China partnership gives Valparaiso boss reason to be cheerful, as Michael Mackey finds out

3rd October 2008

Valparaiso interview

3rd October 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Port-based businesses across the UK are reeling from the effect of abackdated business rate charge that will put many out of business.

3rd October 2008

UK ports revolt on crippling backdated rates charges

3rd October 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Fifteen jobs under threat on the back of falling car volumes at Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP) have been saved in an agreement thrashed out with unions.

3rd October 2008

Malmö eleventh hour agreement saves threatened jobs

3rd October 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

A joint venture of Laing ORourke and Dredging International has signed a contract to transformed the 1,850 acre London Gateway site into the worlds most advanced container port and Europes largest logistics…

2nd October 2008

London Gateway signing

2nd October 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

Kenya Ports Authority managing director Abdallah Mwaruwa has been relieved of his command by the countrys prime minister.

2nd October 2008

Kenya relieves ports chief

2nd October 2008

ASIA

ASIA

The Chinese city of Shenzhen has received backing from the National Development and Reform Commission to build six new ports. These will include facilities at Liantang, Longhua and Dachan Gulf Harbour, and…

2nd October 2008

Six new Shenzhen ports

2nd October 2008

ASIA

ASIA

A 30-year concession to operate the recently built New Mooring Container Terminal at Chittagong Port is to be offered to the private sector.

1st October 2008

Chittagong concession

1st October 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

CEM Systems has released a security reader which meets the requirements for three stage identity authentication - card, PIN, and biometric verification - in one device.

1st October 2008

Three in one security from CEM

1st October 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Container Management magazine has lifted Ports of Auckland eight places to 104th in the world for the total volume of teu handled during the 2007 calendar year.

30th September 2008

Auckland ranking lift

30th September 2008