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MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Nigerias Dunca inland container terminal has recommenced services after a 14-month shutdown. New owners are AP Moller, Greenview and ENL Terminals.

1st December 2006

DUNCA BACK IN BUSINESS

1st December 2006

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Jebel Ali Port has announced that it will boost capacity from around 8m teu to 67m teu by 2030.This reflects a 41% increase in exports from the adjacent free zone.

1st December 2006

JEBEL ALI CAPACITY HIKE

1st December 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Kenya has approached a European partner to provide bilateral funding for the dredging of Mombasa Harbour, which is scheduled to begin in 2009 for completion in 2011.

1st December 2006

Kenya seeks dredging funding.

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The International Transport Workers Federation has expressed its support for port workers in the Costa Rican port of Limón, who initiated a go-slow in protest against government plans to privatise activities not…

1st December 2006

COSTA RICAN PRIVATISATION PROTESTS

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The planned new Colombian Ceniza coal port, which will use the Magdalena river to export consignments, will cost $480m to build, of which $180m will be required in an initial phase.

1st December 2006

CENIZA COAL GOAL

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Proinversión, promoter of private sector investment in Peruvian companies, has temporarily halted the concession process covering the countrys five main ports until a master development plan has been drawn up for each.

1st December 2006

Peru calls halt on ports privatisation

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Portland Commission has approved the second of two rail construction contracts for a project that will help increase intermodal volumes through the Ports Terminal 6 container facility. 

1st December 2006

Portland on track

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Craig Fuehrer, director in the group at Deutsche Bank Securities, the bank handling the sale of DP Worlds US facilities, was mum about details of the bidding process, in a presentation at…

1st December 2006

US sweet spot for ports

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Management of Colon Container Terminal (CCT), an Evergreen subsidiary, is to take legal action against Panama Maritime Authority (AMP), because it believes that its rights to operate in the Atlantic coast port…

1st December 2006

CCT threatens Coco Solo legal action

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

A tender issued by the Santos Port Authority will consider the economic viability for a proposed concession of Vopack Brasterminais Armazéns Gerais,on the so-called continental side of the port at Barnabé Island.The…

1st December 2006

SANTOS TENDERS FOR VIABILITY STUDY

1st December 2006

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Linde is adding to its existing reachstacker capacity with a facility in China. The factory in Xiamen has been building empty container handlers from Linde kits since 1996, but the company has…

1st December 2006

China facility to boost Linde output

1st December 2006

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Equipment manufacturer Kalmar is participating in a two-year project to reduce pollution at ports in the US. 

1st December 2006

Kalmar spearheads hybrid technology in States

1st December 2006

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Demand from ro-ro customers has boosted sales of Kalmars i-model tractor range.Since the launch of the product in spring this year,more than 50 units have been ordered by customers such as the…

1st December 2006

CAN-BUS tractor popular with ro-ro industry

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

US West Coast ports agree that they can only tackle the many pressing issues facing them if they engage with the community, and get their message across beyond the confines of the…

1st December 2006

Local Support National Success

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Mediterranean Shipping Company has had enough of what it sees as a non-competitive environment in the Port of Buenos Aires and is making a stand. Mike Mundy reports on the war being…

1st December 2006

Let Battle Commence

1st December 2006

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

In a ground-breaking move,Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has filed a major complaint with Argentina's anti-trust authority that alleges there are "no real alternatives as regards port terminal service providers"and therefore that "its…

1st December 2006

MSCs complaints on draught in Buenos Aires centre on the following:

1st December 2006

ASIA

ASIA

Three way tussle around Bohai Bay for box supremacy, as lacklustre port past is swept aside

1st December 2006

Locking horns

1st December 2006

ASIA

ASIA

Theres more to eastern Chinas ports scene than the massive Yangshan, with Taicang,Nantong and Nanjing leading the container pack

1st December 2006

Lifting eastern fog

1st December 2006

ASIA

ASIA

The port of Hong Kong is being eclipsed but its port operators are still raking it in through smart investments outside of the former number one hub

1st December 2006

Northern lights

1st December 2006

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

A widespread tyre shortage is really starting to bite and terminal operators are left with few options when the black stuff wears thin. Alex Hughes reports

1st December 2006

Running out of rubber

1st December 2006