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OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Eastland Port is expecting to report considerable increases in the volume of forestry and squash exported this financial year. Log throughput is expected to rise about 50% to 600,000 JAS tonnes and…

1st May 2007

BUSY TIME FOR GISBORNE PORT

1st May 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Expansion plans approved by BHP will see Port Hedland reclaim the title of Australias largest port by 2010. The fourth stage of BHPs A$2.3bn ($1.9bn) Rapid Growth Project will boost the ports…

1st May 2007

PORT HEDLAND EXPANSION

1st May 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The Western Australian port of Fremantle has put a halt in the shortterm to any further consideration of a third container terminal in the Inner Harbour. Mediterranean Shipping Company had proposed to…

1st May 2007

Fremantle halts new terminal plans

1st May 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A range of congestion-addressing measures recently employed by the Ports of Auckland have reduced truck queues to less than half an hour at both Axis Fergusson and Axis Bledisloe container terminals.

1st May 2007

Auckland truckies breathe sigh of relief

1st May 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

the port operation itself and quite of lot of undeveloped land and resources,” he said. “ Another encouraging sign is the logging, which had not been performing that well, but is improving…

1st May 2007

Double demand on Marlborough

1st May 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Removal of a large backlog of empty containers and continued personnel recruitment have significantly improved congestion at the Ports of Auckland.

1st May 2007

Auckland overcomes congestion blight

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Odessas HPC Ukraina has ordered four rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) Konecranes cranes for Odessa Sea Trade Port, a subsidiary of HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH.

1st May 2007

KONE NETS UKRAINE ORDERS

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Swedens largest timber products company has agreed a multi-year rental contract with Kalmar for 31 specially developed forklift trucks.

1st May 2007

KALMAR RENTAL COUP

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

The UKs Port of Larne is to upgrade its vessel tracking system (VTS), currently consisting of two radar sites, closed-circuit TV and recording system,VHF recording and three VTS operator workplaces.

1st May 2007

LARNE VTS UPGRADE

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Piraeus Port Authority posted revenue growth of 2.9% in 2006, when it generated ¢ 144.1m ($195m). However, the increase would have been more had the port not been hit by several strikes…

1st May 2007

Piraeus Port loses box traffic

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

China Shipping has moved its prestigious AEX-1 service, which links the Far East with northern Europe, from Marítima Valenciana in Valencia to TCB in Barcelona.

1st May 2007

China Shipping swaps Spanish services

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Construction of Germanys new ¢ 950m ($1.3bn) super-containerport at Wilhelmshaven is set to begin in earnest this summer after planning permission was approved.

1st May 2007

JadeWeserPort crosses planning hurdle

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

The president of the port of Lisbons administrative authority,Manuel Frasquilho, has indicated that it will not be necessary to expand  Terminal da Trafaria to accommodate major flows of container traffic in the…

1st May 2007

LISBON DELAYS THIRD BOX TERMINAL

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Infrastructure & Transport Department of the Valencia regional government has issued a tender in respect of the initial phase of construction of the northern road access to the Port of Valencia.…

1st May 2007

ROAD ACCESS IMPROVED TO VALENCIA

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

IHC Holland Merwede is anticipating a 35% increase in turnover this year on the back on improved results from its dredging, offshore and marine businesses. In a booming year, the companys sales…

1st May 2007

GOOD YEAR FOR IHC

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

The European Federation of Inland Ports and the European Sea Ports Organisation are to establish a Platform of European Sea and Inland Ports to strengthen co-operation between both organisations.

1st May 2007

FREIGHT FORUM PROMOTED

1st May 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

The Nigerian Port Authority has made a further 3,000 workers redundant, bringing to 6,000 the number offloaded in the last eight months. It has borrowed ¢ 91m ($123m) to finance the cuts.

1st May 2007

MORE NPA WORKERS CUT

1st May 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

The government of Mauritania has issued a tender in respect of expansion and upgrade work at the port of Nuadibú for ¢ 20.4m ($27.6m).

1st May 2007

NUADIBÚ UPGRADE

1st May 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

Kuwait and Gulf Link Port International have signed an agreement to build a series of deep water berths in Mwambani Bay, which forms part of the Tanzanian port of Tanga.The work, which…

1st May 2007

KUWAITIS TO EXPAND TANGA

1st May 2007

AFRICA

AFRICA

A master plan covering the next 25 years, which was put together by Kenya Port Authority and approved by the government, proposes to concentrate bulk grain handling at a single terminal at…

1st May 2007

Grain monopoly at Mombasa

1st May 2007