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NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Hugo Barrera, president of El Salvadors national ports authority,CEPA, has told Port Strategy that, of the 14 parties to show aninterest in the countrys ports privatisation programme, 85% favour aMaster Concession. Signficantly,…

27th November 2007

El Salvador port concession programme

27th November 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

A $3bn project to build a mega-port between the coastal cities of Peruí be and Itanhaé m in Brazils Sã o Paulo State has been put forward by entrepreneur Eike Batista, who…

22nd November 2007

New mega-port for São Paulo state

22nd November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

These are exciting times for Europes car handlers, as transhipment trade swells. Alex Hughes reports

21st November 2007

Euro Auto Trades

21st November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Not content with a 30% increase in cars handled last year,Copenhagen-Malmö Ports (CMP) general manager (cars), Bart Steijaert, hopesto bump that 382,323 cars to 500,000 annually by 2010.

21st November 2007

Malmö

21st November 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Benelux ports are moving at top speed to take advantage of burgeoning world trade. Stuart Pearcey reports 

21st November 2007

Space: the final frontier

21st November 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Amsterdam went live with a new port management system during September.

21st November 2007

Tracking system monitors shipping

21st November 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Ships down, cargoes up

21st November 2007

shorts for Benelux feature

21st November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Sustainability is paramount in Rotterdams vision of its future, as Stuart Pearcey explains

21st November 2007

Rotterdam nails colours to the mast of sustainability

21st November 2007

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

Throughout the US Coast Guards (USCG) history, it has juggled many missions. These days, much of the talk is about maritime security. In recent Congressional testimony, another USCG mission - its marine…

21st November 2007

Nov issue US OPINION Barry Parker

21st November 2007

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Pusan is to add to its cache of Bromma spreaders with a contract for a further 26 STS45 ship-to-shore separating twin-lift spreaders to fit recently-ordered ZPMC cranes.

18th November 2007

Pusan favours Bromma

18th November 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

A new National Ports Law that will allow private sector operators to undertake management of domestic maritime terminals is planned to be introduced in Nicaragua by the end of the first quarter…

15th November 2007

Private sector welcome in Nicaragua

15th November 2007

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

While cathodic protection is an acknowledged preventative measurefor new construction, the technology is seldom used on ageingstructures, reports Patrik Wheater

14th November 2007

Treating your piles

14th November 2007

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Drewry Shipping Consultants has revised its estimate of worldcontainer traffic in 2006 to 128.3m teu and expects the figure for 2007to be 142.9m teu, a significant increase driven by rapidly expandingwestbound traffic…

14th November 2007

PS Viewpoint

14th November 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Busan new port, which will be completed by 2015 at a cost of $9.2bn, is currently struggling to attract sufficient traffic to make a return on investment. The facility, which will eventually…

14th November 2007

Scarcity of traffic at Busan new port

14th November 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

PrimePort Timaru chairperson Sid McAuley hassaid regional ports need increased weighting in Government decisions on New Zealandsshipping future.

14th November 2007

PrimePort flies regional port flags

14th November 2007

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Cathodic Protection reduces the corrosionof metal surfaces by making the steel surface the cathode of anelectro-chemical cell by using either a galvanic sacrificial anode,usually an electrochemically active alloy such as aluminium, zinc…

14th November 2007

Science behind the magic

14th November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Operators shopping for a new gate management system must take time to consider the unique needs of their port or terminal. Felicity Landon reports

14th November 2007

Gate Systems

14th November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Where gate systems in the past were limited to identification only,todays systems require container and truck optical characterrecognition (OCR), IMO label detection, video files, voice over IP,biometric identification of driver, damage inspection…

14th November 2007

Simple identification is now old hat

14th November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

When goals are clearly defined at the beginning, it is relatively easy to work towards them, says John Lund, sales manager of Finlands Visy.

14th November 2007

Something to aim for

14th November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Proper integration and clear advance planning are key factors for ports looking to install automated gate systems, says Phil Elovic, chief executive of optical character recognition (OCR) specialist Hi-Tech Solutions (HTS).

14th November 2007

Optimising

14th November 2007