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ASIA

ASIA

Pacific International Line in collaboration with Container Terminal Services are favourites to be awarded the concession to operate Chittagong Container Terminal. Other bidders are Everest Enterprise Ltd and incumbent terminal operator SAIF…

24th July 2008

Chittagong to go private

24th July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Capacity of Texas is powering ahead with five alternative fuel routes for its Trailer Jockey terminal tractor line.

24th July 2008

Capacity seeks energy alternatives

24th July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Hemmed in and battling congestion, Australian ports are in a state of flux, as Dave MacIntyre and Iain MacIntyre report.

23rd July 2008

Oz Feature

23rd July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

New Zealands port industry is set to gain the fruits of a coastal shipping growth.

23rd July 2008

Revitalising coastal shipping

23rd July 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Facing a decline in its bulk exports of pulp, paper and lumber to intermodal markets, the Canadian Port of Prince Rupert had to seek alternatives.

23rd July 2008

The Prince of intermodalism

23rd July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port Kembla could get seven new berths as part of a makeover of its outer harbour, under a master state ports plan for New South Wales.

23rd July 2008

Kembla facelift mooted

23rd July 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Autonomous Port Executive Commission of El Salvador is seeking private sector investors to take over management of its ports.

23rd July 2008

El Salvador port privatisation overhaul

23rd July 2008

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

A joint venture between Boskalis Westminster Middle East and Dredging International will see both companies mobilise some of the biggest trailing suction hopper dredgers in the world for the construction and expansion…

21st July 2008

Giant dredgers for Dubai

21st July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Forklift optimiser Transmon claims that port operators could do more to improve forklift performance beyond the installation of fleet management systems.

21st July 2008

Forklift management tips

21st July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Thermal imaging is fairly new in the security and surveillance sector, but Flir Systems is positioning itself for break into the market by two technological acquisitions.

21st July 2008

Turn up the heat on security

21st July 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

According to Michael Hansen, managing director of APM Terminals in Nigeria, the local economy has benefited to the tune of $400m following privatisation of many of the countrys ports.

20th July 2008

Nigeria private cash boost

20th July 2008

ASIA

ASIA

International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has supported its presence in the Philippines, through two initiatives.

20th July 2008

Philippine initiatives for ICTSI

20th July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Continuing high bulk vessel charter rates are seeing New Zealand forestry product exporters increasingly investigating containerising their consignments.

19th July 2008

Logs take care of empties

19th July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

An inventory audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers of the Port of Aucklands total greenhouse gas emissions has provided a solid foundation for further work by the company to manage its carbon footprint.

18th July 2008

Aucklands energy audit

18th July 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Tarragona, near Barcelona, is to be the first of DP Worlds Spanish ports. DP World has acquired  a 60% shareholding in Contarsa Sociedad de Estiba which holds the exclusive concession for the…

18th July 2008

Spanish port for Dubai link

18th July 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Finlands newest container facility, Vuosaari Port in Helsinki, will soon be able to hande post-panamax ships carrying up to 18 containers abreast with recently delivered Kalmar ship-to-shore cranes.

18th July 2008

Post-panamax at Helsinki

18th July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Oman has stamped its seal of approval on vacuum-based automated mooring systems with an order for 12 Cavotec units for the Port of Salalah.

18th July 2008

More vacuum mooring for Oman

18th July 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Perus National Ports Authority (Enapu) has come under fire for its decision to court private sector finance for the upgrading of Quay 5 at the Port of Callao.

18th July 2008

ENAPU needs private sector cash

18th July 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Peru is undergoing a spate of new ports building as its trade with the rest of the world mushrooms.

18th July 2008

Peruvian port progress

18th July 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Evo Morales, President of Bolivia and his opposite number, Michelle Bachelet of Chile have opened the door to the construction of a Bolivian port on the Chilean coast,  according to local sources.

18th July 2008

Port outlet mooted for land-locked Bolivians

18th July 2008