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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

ASIA

ASIA

Phase III at Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) has opened its first berth and piloted its " Next-Generation System" which will gradually replace the existing terminal operation control system. nGen has been…

1st November 2003

First berth of YICTs Phase III operational

1st November 2003

EUROPE

EUROPE

A Russian investor intends to pay off Moldovan debt to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) arising from the Giurgiulesti Oil Terminal project, and develop a multifunctional port on Moldovas…

1st November 2003

Russian investor to complete Giurgiulesti?

1st November 2003

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Two new post-Panamax container cranes have arrived at Philadelphia' s Packer Avenue Marine Terminal (PAMT), operated by Greenwich Terminals LLC. The cranes, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, have an outreach of 45.7m…

1st November 2003

New post-Panamax cranes for PAMT

1st November 2003

ASIA

ASIA 1st November 2003

Deepwater port at Van Phong

1st November 2003

ASIA

ASIA

The Petronet consortium is due to open a new LNG terminal at Dahej by the end of the year. It has also acquired 400 acres of land at the port of Kochi,…

1st November 2003

LNG terminals for India

1st November 2003

ASIA

ASIA

Chittagong Port Authority chairman Shahadat Hossain has rejected accusations from western countries that Chittagong is both hazardous and expensive.

1st November 2003

Chittagong rejects accusations

1st November 2003

EUROPE

EUROPE 1st November 2003

New Italian logistics platforms

1st November 2003

EUROPE

EUROPE

Freightliner Limited and GB Railfreight have launched new services from Felixstowes North Rail Terminal.

1st November 2003

Felixstowe on track

1st November 2003

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Permission to seek tenders has been granted for Santos to improve its land access with a $278m project to segregate rail and highway traffic into the port, as well as divert heavy…

1st November 2003

Santos inland access improvement

1st November 2003

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST 1st November 2003

New box terminal at Mina Zayed

1st November 2003

AFRICA

AFRICA

Skanska BOT believes it can bring a unique blend of investor and construction expertise to major port sector infrastructure projects - container terminals and others.

1st November 2003

MAPUTO AND BEYOND: Skanska enters the fray

1st November 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Meanwhile Patrick Stevedores of Brisbane has placed an order for 14 Kalmar ESC straddle carriers to be equipped for unmanned operations.

1st November 2003

..while Patrick goes all the way

1st November 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

UK based AS-C Materials Handling has won a contract for the system design of all mechanical, structural, electrical and control elements at a new fertilizer terminal at Muuga, Estonia. AS-C has also…

1st November 2003

New fertilizer terminal for Muuga

1st November 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Belgium' s Hesse-Noord Natie has ordered nine Kalmar EDRIVE ESC straddle carriers for operation in its River Schelde terminals, Quay 869 and Quay 913. This latest order calls for five ESCs with…

1st November 2003

Kalmar strads for Hesse-Noord Natie..

1st November 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

HHLA Frucht-und Kuhlzentrum which runs Hamburg' s fruit terminal, has ordered two leading-edge HMK 90 E Mobile Harbour Cranes from Gottwald to enable faster discharging of banana and other fruit cargoes on…

1st November 2003

Gottwalds fruits of success

1st November 2003