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Australias Toll group has announced plans to spin-off its ports division, which encompasses Patrick Corporation, as well as the Pacific National Railway.The new company will retain 83% of the groups debt.Toll will…

1st January 2007

PATRICK IN TOLL SPIN-OFF

1st January 2007

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A five-year term as Northports chief executive will come to a close this year when Ken Crean steps down from the role.The position is currently being advertised and Mr Crean says he…

1st January 2007

CREAN TO LEAVE NORTHPORT

1st January 2007

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The Australian port of Newcastle has reported that queues of ships waiting to dock peaked at record levels of the mid-50s between late November and early December. The port had been operating…

1st January 2007

Join the queue

1st January 2007

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Solid progress is being made in the potential mergers between New Zealands Ports of Auckland and Port of Tauranga and the Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) and Port Otago.

1st January 2007

Positive tones in NZ merger talks

1st January 2007

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Ports of Auckland took delivery of three new ZPMC cranes in December as part of its NZ$100m investment programme to handle container throughput  currently doubling every 10 years.

1st January 2007

Auckland geared for growth

1st January 2007

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A range of infrastructural and procedural improvements have been put in place by the Port of Tauranga to cater for the 85% increase in reefer container throughput in half a decade. 

1st January 2007

Reefer boom for Tauranga

1st January 2007

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A 33% increase in after-tax profit to NZ$6.9m and 7% rise in revenue to NZ$29.6m has been recorded by Port Nelson in the 2005-06 financial year. Although throughput did not reach the…

1st January 2007

PROFIT BOOST FOR PORT NELSON

1st January 2007

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Irelands new deep-water port at Bremore is to be developed in a joint venture between Drogheda Port Company and Castle Market Holdings, a consortium that includes an unnamed world classport operator.

1st January 2007

CASTLE WINS BREMORE BATTLE

1st January 2007

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The Italian provincial government of Liguria has approved an outline plan for the port of La Spezia, which is due to become law early in 2007.The plan envisages the creation of 140,000…

1st January 2007

LA SPEZIA PORT PLAN

1st January 2007

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Campbell Mason has been selected as the managing director of DP Worlds two container terminals in the UK at Southampton and Tilbury.

1st January 2007

CAMPBELL TAKES CHARGE

1st January 2007

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Stavros Dimas, the European Unions Environmental Commissioner,has given the conditional go-ahead for the construction of the port of Granadilla on the island of Tenerife, in the Spanish Canary Islands.  

1st January 2007

EU gives Granadilla go-ahead

1st January 2007

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Milford Haven Port Authority recently took the unusual step of investing in research of archive information to help expedite repair of a gate in its docks.

1st January 2007

Milford looks to the past

1st January 2007

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Valencia has consolidated its position as Spains second most important port, beaten only by Algeciras Bay. Figures recently released by the state-managed Puertos del Estado for the first 10 months of 2006,…

1st January 2007

Second place for Valencia

1st January 2007

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UK maritime interests have just a few more weeks to make their views known on the European Union Maritime Green Paper, published last year by the European Commission.

1st January 2007

Make your view count.

1st January 2007

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Albania has issued a tender in respect of construction of a new port at Durres, 33km west of Tirana.The work, which is worth ¢ 40m, is being funded by a loan from…

1st January 2007

ALBANIA TENDER RELEASED

1st January 2007

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Ravenna Port Committee has approved a ¢ 339m investment package after traffic in 2006 rose by 10% to 26m tonnes.

1st January 2007

RAVENNA INVESTMENT AGREED

1st January 2007

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Kalmar has boosted its Italian reach with the acquisition of CVS Ferrari Group.Under the deal, sealed at an undisclosed price, CVS Ferrari will operate as a separate entity and brand within Kalmar,…

1st January 2007

FERRARI CROSSES KALMAR FINISHING LINE

1st January 2007

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Giuliano Gallanti has been re-elected as chairman of the European Sea Ports Organisation for another two years.He has prioritised the development of a meaningful European port policy, adding that the big challenge…

1st January 2007

Gallanti keeps ESPO watch

1st January 2007

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Medcenter, at the port of Gioia Tauro, handled 3m teu in 2006. Second-half traffic was up 16% over that generated in the first six months and up 4% compared with the corresponding…

1st January 2007

MEDCENTER TRAFFIC RECOVERY

1st January 2007

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Salerno-based Gallozzi Group has bought a 30% stake in Interporto Campano-owned Terminal Intermodale di Nola (TIN), taking on the running of the day-to-day business. The 225,000 sq m facility,sited close to Southern…

1st January 2007

Gallozzi Group buys into TIN

1st January 2007