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EUROPE

EUROPE

Over £ 1.3 billion is due to be invested in Port of London terminals in the next ten years and plans are underway to bring some unused wharves in London back into…

1st March 2004

Father Thames gets makeover

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

The secretary of state for infrastructure, Benigno Blanco, confirmed that Spains development ministry would invest € 32.2m in the initial phase of Tenerifes new Granadilla Port in 2004.

1st March 2004

New port development in Tenerife

1st March 2004

ASIA

ASIA

The majority of this would be spent on creating a breakwater, with some work to the quay.A report on a planned $4 billion development of Colombo port is due to be published.…

1st March 2004

$4 billion for Colombo

1st March 2004

ASIA

ASIA

The majority of this would be spent on creating a breakwater, with some work to the quay.Myanmar and Thailand are to cooperate on the establishment of a new joint-venture deep-sea port at…

1st March 2004

Joint Thai/ Myanmar port

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Algeciras is to make its largest ever yearly investment in 2004, when € 61m will be spent on infrastructure projects (see PS Jan/Feb 2004 p.16). This contrasts to € 24.4m spent in…

1st March 2004

Algeciras to invest €61m

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Marseilles' total throughput last year of 95.5m tons (3.6% up on 2002) was the highest since 1988. Key cargo growth came at Fos container terminal where a throughput of almost 533,000TEUs (+8.8%)…

1st March 2004

Marseilles lures Eastern trades

1st March 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has acquired the Ancon depot in Antwerp.

1st March 2004

ISS nabs Ancon

1st March 2004

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Israels finance ministry appears to be about to reverse its policy on privatising operations at the ports of Ashdod, Haifa and Eliat and on dismantling the ports authority structure. Any move towards…

1st March 2004

Israel defers ports privatisation

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

The first piles have been driven in a five-year project to modernise the Eurogate Container Terminal in Hamburg and attract big boxships as that group reports record handling. The project, which will…

1st March 2004

Eurogate Hamburg to pull the big boys

1st March 2004

ASIA

ASIA

Malaysian transhipment hub PTP expects to face growing competition from new ports in both Thailand and Indonesia in the near future, concedes ceo Mohd Sidik Shaik Osman, adding that developing infrastructure at…

1st March 2004

PTP concedes regional competition will grow

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

At Plymouth, the Brittany Ferries-operated services to Roscoff and Santander posted a 20% increase in ro-ro traffic.Interforest Terminal Rotterdam is expanding in the Eemhaven area with a container section and new handling…

1st March 2004

Interforest Terminal Rotterdam

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

A new £ 150m intermodal container terminal is to be built on Peel Holdings Manchester Ship Canal with a projected annual throughput over the berth of 83,000 TEUs, accommodating 250 ship calls…

1st March 2004

Ship canal gets new tri-modal port

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Cadiz Bay believes that levels of traffic reported in 2004 mean that it produced above average increases when compared to other Spanish ports, with total throughput reaching 5m tons.

1st March 2004

Cadiz growth continues apace

1st March 2004

AFRICA

AFRICA

The recent announcement that the Vridi Container Terminal concession at Abidjan, Cote DIvoire had been awarded to the French Group Bollore, caused a considerable reaction in port privatisation circles and the West…

1st March 2004

Cote DIvoire Vridi Terminal concession, done or undone?

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

The reaction wasn't because it was the Bollore group that had secured the contract but that it had happened apparently behind closed doors without other parties being invited to tender - an…

1st March 2004

Felixstowes Chinese equipment arrives

1st March 2004

ASIA

ASIA

Xiamen International Container Terminals (XICT) has purchased two super post-Panamax quay cranes to strengthen the terminals productivity as well as enhance the competitiveness of the Haicang Port Zone.

1st March 2004

XICT buys new cranes

1st March 2004

AFRICA

AFRICA

Its been quite a year for Nigeria and its ports in particular. The successful elections last year marked the first civilian transfer of power in the countrys history and growing international support…

1st March 2004

NIGERIA TAKES THE PLUNGE

1st March 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A new service from container crane lift specialist Alimak, contains a threefold testing procedure to eliminate all errors before the lift is put into operation. The lift is scrutinised through a 24-hour…

1st March 2004

Alimak supervises

1st March 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Global Transportation Solutions (GTS) is to implement its Terminal Operations Productivity Solution (TOPS) at the Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT), the 600,000 sq metre, 2.6 million TEU capacity APMT/ECT venture.

1st March 2004

SCCT opts for GTS

1st March 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Jeddah North Container Terminal, run by Gulf Stevedoring, has taken delivery of two additional super post-Panamax cranes and five heavy duty RTGs from Liebherr. The crane outreach is 55 metres, capable of…

1st March 2004

Liebherr orders for Jeddah and Barcelona

1st March 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

MWH has been selected by Port of Antwerp to provide an innovative solution to its sediment problems. It will be among the first times that mechanical dewatering using a chamber filter press…

1st March 2004

Sediment solution for Antwerp

1st March 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

In addition to its work for parent ABP, UK Dredging has found work at a number of UK ports recently including Forth Ports, Aberdeen, Tyne, Portsmouth, Workington and Belfast and in Eire,…

1st March 2004

UKD wins third-party work

1st March 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The design for a mechanical dewatering plant will save over €7m per year, while delivering processing and sustainability benefits. The MWH solution requires only 20 ha of land to process the sediment,…

1st March 2004

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1st March 2004