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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Rotterdam' s European Container Terminal (ECT) is continuing the expansion of its Delta container terminal with fully automated stacking equipment developed together with Kalmar.

1st January 2004

Kalmar supplies ASCs to Delta

1st January 2004

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

US Customs has rejected calls to take manifest details about export goods direct from other Customs agencies, saying it is unworkable.

1st January 2004

US Customs looks to cut out doubling up

1st January 2004

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

However, assistant US Customs attache Peter Darvas said it will try to make the task easier by researching ways to make its systems more compatible with those used in other countries.The US…

1st January 2004

US seeks IMO standards for company security officers

1st January 2004

ASIA

ASIA

The Chinese government has selected maritime security and counter-terrorism consultants, SeaSecure, to provide training for the Hong Kong Marine Department in preparation for ISPS Code compliance.

1st January 2004

Chinese and Trinidad & Tobago select SeaSecure

1st January 2004

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

US ports seeking federal grants for 1,065 security enhancement measures have learned that 442 of the plans will be funded. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) named recipients of $179,025,900 in the third…

1st January 2004

U.S. ports welcome grants but heed shut-down warning

1st January 2004

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Applications totalling over $987m had been submitted by ports across the country seeking funding assistance in order to comply with new U.S.Empresa Portuaria San Antonio has issued terms and conditions covering the…

1st January 2004

San Antonio to build new terminal

1st January 2004

ASIA

ASIA

Five of eight interested parties have entered firm bids for the concession to run the third container terminal at JNPT in India.

1st January 2004

Five bid for JNPT

1st January 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Control Risks Groups international maritime division has joined forces with PMSi (Port Maritime Security International) to offer a complete security solution throughout the logistics supply chain.

1st January 2004

PMSi and CRG team up

1st January 2004

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Australian transport minister John Anderson has been reported by the Weekend newspaper as saying of the ISPS Code:

1st January 2004

Aussie and Brit ports face up to ISPS deadline?

1st January 2004

AFRICA

AFRICA

In 2002 Africa is estimated to have accounted for just 3% of world container port throughput, equivalent to 8.1mTEUs out of a near 273mTEUs globally.

1st November 2003

Two BOT projects for North Africa

1st November 2003

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Steve Cameron reports on progress towards modern management practices in India and an interesting study tour hes conducting of UK ports by Indian port managers

1st November 2003

Raising the Bottom Line

1st November 2003

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

Bill Oakes tackles the fundamental issue of how to market and promote a port with emphasis on the individual and combined roles of each member of the port community.

1st November 2003

MARKETING YOUR PORT

1st November 2003

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Fazilette Khan reports on how the fast new mini-strad carrier is finding its rightful place in the terminal equipment hierarchy.

1st November 2003

MINI-SPRINTER-SHUTTLE-CONTRUNNER-STRADS COME OF AGE

1st November 2003

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

In the first of a series, Nick Elliott reports from Teesport on its preparations for ISPS Code compliance

1st November 2003

ISPS: THE APPROACHING DEADLINE

1st November 2003

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

Recent events in Busan have served to concentrate the minds of people who have to think about the risk management of ports and terminals. It is probably fair to say that the…

1st November 2003

LESSONS FROM THE CAT MARKET

1st November 2003

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Terrorist attack, human error, the weather - whatever the cause, oil pollution is a messy business. Last month, seven and a half years after the SEA EMPRESS grounded in Milford Havens approaches…

1st November 2003

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

1st November 2003

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Drewry Shipping' s Dean Davison weighs up privatisation opportunities and discusses the criteria that may be applied in the evaluation process

1st November 2003

Drewry privatises the world

1st November 2003

AFRICA

AFRICA

Nigerian dock workers unions have issued an ultimatum to the government to withdraw plans to privatise port operations and management or face a series of strikes by stevedores. They claim that earlier…

1st November 2003

Unions protest Nigerian privatisation plans

1st November 2003

ASIA

ASIA

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has called upon international shipping lines to choose container terminals in Malaysia over those in neighbouring Singapore.

1st November 2003

PM urges lines

1st November 2003

ASIA

ASIA

China is considering developing three new LNG terminals, one at Qingdao and two near Shanghai. Energy planners expect gas demand in the eastern coastal provinces to hit 37bn cbm/year by 2015, an…

1st November 2003

China planning new LNG terminals

1st November 2003

EUROPE

EUROPE

The first cargo hall on a planned new € 30 million terminal aimed at consolidating Lubecks leading role in Baltic paper products handling has been inaugurated in the suburb of Schlutup. The…

1st November 2003

New terminal paves way for junction role

1st November 2003

ASIA

ASIA

Hong Kong-listed China Merchants Holdings and the government of Qingdao are to jointly develop a $500m, international logistics park in Qingdao. The project includes the development of seven container and multi-purpose berths…

1st November 2003

Logistics park for Qingdao

1st November 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Europes biggest fish processing plant has opened near the port of Sassnitz-Mukran closing a gap in the supply chain between product and consumer in the German Baltic state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The former…

1st November 2003

Sassnitz-Mukran flexes cargo muscles

1st November 2003