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EUROPE

EUROPE

Duisburg is to be the home of a new 35,000 sq m trimodal container terminal, part funded by South Africas Imperial Group. Due to open in spring 2009, the terminal will be…

11th July 2008

Duisburg multimodal terminal

11th July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The latest version of Terminal View, a 3D tool that enables port and intermodal operators to zoom into any area of the terminal and monitor operations in real-time, has been released by…

11th July 2008

Terminal View release

11th July 2008

ASIA

ASIA

Hongkong International Terminals (HIT) is deploying 17 electric rubber-tyred gantry cranes (eRTGs) in the first phase of a HK$140m (US$18m) crane-electrification programme that will reduce emissions at Kwai Tsing Container Port.

10th July 2008

Rubber Gantries Part of Green Initiative in HK

10th July 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

A community fund in Felixtowe has been launched with the backing of twelve local shipping and transport companies.

10th July 2008

Charity begins at home

10th July 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Maersk Line has signed a ten-year agreement with the Port of Felixstowe which will give the shipping line priority terminal usage.

10th July 2008

Maersk signs up with Felixstowe

10th July 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Brazilian logistics company LLX is to sell a 30% stake in its operations to a strategic investor for approximately $3.5bn. The sale is slated to take place before the end of…

10th July 2008

LLX to shed 30% equity stake

10th July 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Los Angeles is coming down hard on polluting terminal tugs, as Stuart Pearcey finds out

9th July 2008

terminal tractor item

9th July 2008

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Once viewed as a fashionable green statement, self sufficient power generation is in todays ports less of a luxury and more a necessity, as Patrik Wheater finds out

9th July 2008

The electrification of ports

9th July 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Saline and the erosion of port structures go hand-in-hand, so why arent ports doing more to protect their assets, asks Carly Fields

9th July 2008

Corrosion feature

9th July 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Operators looking to start construction of a new portor terminal should consider corrosion early on. While its often low onthe list of priorities, a few dollars spent at the start could protectports…

9th July 2008

Get in early and get the jump on corrosion

9th July 2008

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

The global shipping market is in somewhat of a flux, with a possible world recession, sharply fluctuating bulk shipping rates and liner rates trying to decide what to do.

9th July 2008

Bulk Into Containers

9th July 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Shipping lines Crowley and APL have warned the Costa Rican ports of Limó n and Moí n that they are considering dropping calls on the back of poor service.

9th July 2008

Threat of boycott hangs over Limón and Moín

9th July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kalmar has launched an electric forklift series, designed as a productive, cost-effective, fossil-fuel free and environmentally-friendly unit.

9th July 2008

Future electric

9th July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

VeriTainer, specialist in crane-mounted radiation scanning solutions, has been invited to participate in an Operational Readiness Test by US customs and security departments at the Port of Tacoma.

9th July 2008

Seamless radiation scanning

9th July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Recent shipping service losses have forced PrimePort Timaru to make 23 permanent full-time and part-time positions redundant.

7th July 2008

NZ news snippets for July (pics to come)

7th July 2008

ASIA

ASIA

China Merchants Holdings predicts that Shanghai International Port will handle 30m teu this year, despite the slight downturn in the global economy. However, in the four months to the end of April,…

6th July 2008

Traffic slowing at Shanghai

6th July 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Salonika Port in Greece says that it will have addressed all objections raised as part of the bidding process in respect of privatisation of port handling by the end of July.

6th July 2008

Three in the frame for Salonika

6th July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A hard-hitting report on the New Zealand port sector by investment bankers Rockpoint Corporate Finance suggests that the vast majority of the increase in shareholders funds achieved by port companies over the…

5th July 2008

Financial Performance of NZ Ports Criticised

5th July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port Otago has narrowly avoided its first serious industrial action in 21 years, with two unions issuing notice of an overtime ban after failed mediation talkes on pay.

4th July 2008

Otago on strike notice

4th July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A three-year collective employment agreement has been signed by Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) and the Combined Unions.

3rd July 2008

Agreement means stability for Lyttelton

3rd July 2008