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MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The Labour Court in the Israeli city of Haifa has determined that local port workers will be personally fined € 182 ($248) for every hour that they go on strike. Should the…

1st June 2007

Yellow card for Haifa strikers

1st June 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Jordan is readying itself for a $3bn project to relocate its only port, Aqaba, to deeper waters 20 km south to expand its handling capacity. The government has confirmed that it has…

1st June 2007

Jordan prepares Aqaba tender

1st June 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

South Africa’ s National Port Authority has decided to implement the € 363m ($489.7m) first phase development of Ngqura without private sector partners. However, it is still interested in collaborating with external…

1st June 2007

Ngqura development ploughs ahead

1st June 2007

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Gulftainer’ s Khor Fakkan Terminal produced record handling figures of 237 moves per hour with four super post-panamax cranes when the CMACGM La Traviata called last month. 

1st June 2007

Khor Fakkan boasts record moves

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

San Vicente Terminal Internacional has been granted a 15-year extension to its container terminal concession at the Chilean port of the same name.The concession will now run for 30 years as from…

1st June 2007

SAN VICENTE EXTENSION

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Spanish company Alinport has begun construction of the port of Posorja in Ecuador, which will occupy a 200,000 square metre area.Total cost is $450m.

1st June 2007

ALINPORT STARTS POSORJA

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Santa Catarina, with investment of € 491m ($664.3m), is Brazil' s leading port this year in terms of private capital.Part of the money is being spent on constructing two new complexes, various…

1st June 2007

SANTA CATARINA LEADS

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Halifax Port Authority has awarded a wide-area surveillance contract to PureTech Systems.The technology will be installed under a C$8m (US$7.2m) contract.

1st June 2007

PURETECH HALIFAX COUP

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Terminales Internacionales del Ecuador (TIDE) believes that there are bureaucratic obstacles in place that mean potential cargo is still being displaced to terminals in Guayaquil rather than going through its port of…

1st June 2007

Burden of bureaucracy

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The governor of the Panamanian province of Chiriquí has asked Panama Maritime Authority to have another look at the concession awarded to a company in Pedregal port, which he believes has not…

1st June 2007

Pedregal port concession challenged

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Panama Maritime Authority is to invest more than $700,000 across 10 minor ports.Work will involve minor repairs and upgrades to buildings and infrastructure. 

1st June 2007

Panama invests in minor ports

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Mexican Minero Lobos group has made public its decision to support the Punta Colonet port tender, which is being put together by the Transport Ministry.

1st June 2007

PUNTA COLONET SUPPORT

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Tacoma, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Maritime Air Forum, has released a scientific study measuring maritime-related air emissions in Puget Sound.The inventory will form a baseline for future…

1st June 2007

PUGET EMISSIONS BENCHMARK

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Santos Port Authority is to put out to concession nine terminals by 2010. 

1st June 2007

Nine Santos terminals up for grabs

1st June 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port Authority of Houston and Galveston has signed an agreement to build a new container terminal on Pelican Island, which is situated to the north of Galveston Island.

1st June 2007

New Galveston hub plan

1st June 2007

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The estimated global port-related cost of implementing the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code has been put at between $1.1bn and $2.3bn initially, with annual costs thereafter of between $400m…

1st June 2007

ISPS an easy, but expensive, pill to swallow

1st June 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Bremen/Bremerhaven secures feedership role for the future as JadeWeserPort project gets go-ahead. Tom Todd reports

1st May 2007

Future-proof

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Few now appear to doubt the future strategic importance of what will be Germany’ s only deep-water container terminal: the idea, once scoffed at, appears to have literally grown on Germans. 

1st May 2007

Changing tide of German opinion

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

City hopes to boost future port prospects with a majority share sell off to an experienced port operator, as Tom Todd reports

1st May 2007

Lübecks share sights

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Germany’ s easternmost deep-water port,Sassnitz- Mukran, expects planned new rail-ferry links this year with Russia will help solve its problem of unused capacity and hopes more cruiseships will fill the rest. 

1st May 2007

Sassnitz-Mukran eager to fill unused capacity

1st May 2007