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EUROPE

EUROPE

APM Terminals ended 2007 with a net profit of $411m compared with $99m for the previous year. Throughput amounted to 31.4m containers, an increase of 13%.

14th May 2008

Bumper year for APM

14th May 2008

ASIA

ASIA

PSA has awarded a S$160m (US$118m) contract for 79 rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) to Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction from South Korea. The RTGs will be deployed at PSAs new berths at…

14th May 2008

Doosan does it for Singapore

14th May 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Ports and terminals looking to expand the knowledge base of staff can now make use of eLearning products specific to the ports industry.

14th May 2008

Ports eLearning to target knowledge gaps

14th May 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Railpower Technologies Corp. and TSI Terminal Systems Inc have confirmed the results of the EcoCrane hybrid power plants installed on TSI Rubber Tyre Gantry cranes (RTGs).

14th May 2008

Ecocrane hybrid offers 70% fuel economy

14th May 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

John Polatz, investor relations director with New Zealand-headquartered Cavotec MSL, believes the newly-signed contract with Denmarks Nordic Ferry Services will prove vital to sales of its vacuum mooring units in Europe.

13th May 2008

Cavotec celebrates European opening

13th May 2008

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The Port of Longview Commissioners unanimously voted to sell wetland property for preservation.

13th May 2008

Longview sells “green” property for preservation

13th May 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Victorias newest terminal operation, Port of Gippsland, is expected to be open for business this month. Gippsland Maritime Logistics will run the terminal as a common-user offshore support facility.

12th May 2008

Victorias opening

12th May 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Association of Ecuadors Private Port Operators has asked the government to avoid creating monopolies.

12th May 2008

Monopoly concerns in Ecuador

12th May 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Chilean port of Coronel is to raise $20m of new capital for the construction of a second quay and also to finance other investments. The port, which is Chiles main outlet…

12th May 2008

Second quay for Coronel

12th May 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

On 14 May, the Port of Rotterdam Authority, the DCMR Environmental Protection Agency Rijnmond (DCMR) and a ministerial delegation from Oman signed an agreement governing the establishment of an environmental protection agency…

12th May 2008

Rotterdam/Oman environmental protection service

12th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Stevedoring companies have taken equity control of 19 of the 36 Port Labour companies in Spain, which will become Economic Interest Port Groups (APIEs).

11th May 2008

Spanish stevedores seize labour company control

11th May 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Panama Maritime Authority has voided the tender issued in respect of the new $500m Farfá n mega-port on its Pacific coast. The project will now be taken forward by a consortium…

10th May 2008

Farfán tender withdrawn

10th May 2008

ASIA

ASIA

PSA will issue preference shares to raise $60m to invest in ABG Kandla Container Terminal Ltd. These will be convertible into equity shares after October 2011, but will not exceed 49% of…

10th May 2008

PSAs $60m for Kandla

10th May 2008

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

By Autumn 2008, every drop of fuel powering equipment at the Port of Charleston’s public facilities will be cleaner ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD), reaffirming the port community’s commitment to cleaner air and…

10th May 2008

Charleston commits to cleaner air

10th May 2008

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The Port of Gothenburg is investing heavily in expanding rail traffic to and from the port. Last year 42,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide were saved by transporting goods in and out of…

8th May 2008

Gothenburg saves emissions

8th May 2008

ASIA

ASIA

A transit port reserved for Laos commodities will be built this yearat the Vung Ang Port in the central Vietnamese province of Ha Tinh.

7th May 2008

Transit port for landlocked Laos to be built in central Vietnam

7th May 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Buying second-hand equipment can save youtime and money - and there is even the useful side-effect that you are savingenvironmental resources, too. Felicity Landon reports

7th May 2008

Second-hand – saving time, money and resources

7th May 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Come 2010 a slew of new terminals should help Vietnam realise its exporting potential, writes Wing Kah-goh from Ho Chi Minh City

7th May 2008

Saigon Port runs with the big boys

7th May 2008

AFRICA

AFRICA

Work is to start at Dande Bay this year on construction of a new harbour to serve the Angolan capital of Luanda. This will have double the capacity of Luandas existing port,…

7th May 2008

New Luanda harbour

7th May 2008

EUROPE

EUROPE

Classification society Germanischer Lloyds award of its first Container Terminal Quality Indicator (CTQI) standard is an important step towards meeting the challenge of comparing global box terminals.

7th May 2008

Container terminal meets the mark

7th May 2008