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OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port users are beginning to voice concerns about a mooted merger between the New Zealands two major container gateways - northern neighbours Port of Tauranga and Ports of Auckland.Shipping companies in particular…

1st December 2006

Opposition grows to ports merger proposal

1st December 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Australian stevedore Patricks has reported that it is now achieving an average rate of 20 boxes per hour delivered to the crane with its ground-breaking automated straddle carrier system. It states it…

1st December 2006

PATRICKS ON A HIGH

1st December 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A consent application has been lodged by PrimePort Timaru to progressively extend the western end of its North Mole container facility. Ultimately creating an overall wharf length of 650 metres, the project…

1st December 2006

TIMARU GUNS FOR WESTERN EXTENSION

1st December 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

An automated identification system introduced by the Ports of Auckland has enabled vessels as long as two football fields to be tracked and managed within five metres accuracy in the poorest of…

1st December 2006

AUCKLANDS AIS GOLD

1st December 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Auckland Port Authority has confirmed that expansion of its new Axis Fergusson terminal would add a further 120,000 teu to its total handling capacity.

1st December 2006

Auckland box handling boost

1st December 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Ports around New Zealand have undoubtedly drawn a collective sigh of relief, with Maersk Line confirming it will continue at the nine local ports it currently serves, albeit with a revised service…

1st December 2006

Port relief on Maersk schedule

1st December 2006

EUROPE

EUROPE

Terminales Marítimas de Bilbao  (TMB) plans to add a further 25,000 square metres to its existing concession. This announcement comes just 18 months after terminal management had to ask the port authority…

1st December 2006

TMB IN EXPANSION MOOD

1st December 2006

EUROPE

EUROPE

A sea change in ownership and huge amounts of investment mean that the future has never looked brighter for the UK ports industry, Forth Ports chief executive Charles Hammond has told maritime…

1st December 2006

UK ports back in vogue

1st December 2006

EUROPE

EUROPE

Rotterdams Euromax terminal welcomed the first of sixteen cranes last month The sixteen cranes, together with another three barge/feeder cranes and twelve 23-wide quay cranes, will perform the ship-to-shore operations at the…

1st December 2006

Euromax welcomes crane arrival

1st December 2006

EUROPE

EUROPE

Throughput at the port of Rotterdam over the first nine months of the year has made a mild recovery, increasing by 1.5% in comparison with the same period last year.The 281m tonnes…

1st December 2006

ROTTERDAM BOUNCES BACK

1st December 2006

EUROPE

EUROPE

Proof of the unwavering investor interest in ports,Deutsche Banks asset management arm has snapped up a 49% stake in the UKs second largest ports group Peel Ports for £ 750m.

1st December 2006

Peel deal cements port attraction

1st December 2006

EUROPE

EUROPE

Dragados-SPL, which belongs to the Spanish construction and services group ACS, has agreed a syndicated loan of ¢ 280m to refinance some existing debts and also to fund new investment.

1st December 2006

Dragados-SPL refinances

1st December 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Investment totalling $679m will be ploughed into South Africas iron ore export port of Saldanha over the next six years to treble export capacity. As part of its expansion plan,the port will…

1st December 2006

Shot in the arm for Saldanha

1st December 2006

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

DP World is to unify its port and terminal operation under a single brand name, which is expected to be revealed within the next six months. Currently, both the DP World and…

1st December 2006

DP World to re-brand P&O Ports

1st December 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Tanzania Ports Authority has announced plans to lease out Kigoma Cargo Terminal and Kassanga Port on Lake Tanganyika. 

1st December 2006

TPA to concession ports

1st December 2006

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Saudi Arabia claims it will develop the largest container terminal in the Middle East at Emaar Economic City.This will be capable of throughputs in the region of 10m teu annually, as well…

1st December 2006

SAUDI ARABIA BIG ON BOXES

1st December 2006

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