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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Mooring ships can be dangerous. Every year thousands of terminal and ship staff are injured in mooring line accidents, and in some cases, the accidents can be fatal. David Foxwell reports on…

1st April 2006

Modelling for safer solutions

1st April 2006

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Consultants Royal Haskoning recently became involved in an upgrade project at the Irish port of Rosslare. The project addressed the repair of berths 1 and 2 at Rosslare Europort where the pier…

1st April 2006

Rosslare Europort gets upgrade

1st April 2006

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Felicity Landon finds out why these flexible friends have so much to offer to small and medium-sized ports.

1st April 2006

Flexible friends

1st April 2006

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Royal Haskoning, the engineering, architecture and environmental consultancy, describes its experiences working on two projects for the Yemeni governments investment arm.

1st April 2006

Double deal for consultants

1st April 2006

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

While the recent emphasis on port security has been centred on cargo, little attention has been paid to actively scanning individuals, many of whom regularly access port terminals as part of their…

1st April 2006

No longer all at sea

1st April 2006

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

This is the time of year when many insurers report their results. The TT Club, which nowadays can be considered as the market leading specialist insurer for the ports and terminals sector,…

1st April 2006

TT Club weathers market volatility

1st April 2006

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

Felicity Landon, one of PS trusty band of freelance contributors, commented the other day that she found ports and shipping by far the most interesting of the industries she writes about. She…

1st April 2006

To unsung heroes?

1st April 2006

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

Now the TT Clubs TT Talk is always an interesting read. From a recent edition comes this statistical gem: " Good news reaches us from the United States where reader Alan Spear,…

1st April 2006

Truck crime: the good news

1st April 2006

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

As reported in our Europe news this month, the Hamburg stevedore HHLA is training its first female port workers as gantry crane operators and van drivers.

1st April 2006

..including Fraulein Gantry Crane Driver

1st April 2006

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

This is the last Viewpoint I shall be writing. Im returning to my old business of ships agency, and to my old firm, Inchcape Shipping Services after three terrific years editing PS.

1st April 2006

Grasping the big issues

1st April 2006

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

TT Club in Sydney are highlighting the problems of enforcing claims on those (hopefully rare) occasions when ships cause damage to terminal property during berthing/unberthing, loading and discharge operations.

1st April 2006

Ships that go bump in the night

1st April 2006

ASIA

ASIA

This will enable financial closure to take place for the first phase of the port project five years after it started operations in April 1999.Completion of the North Butterworth Container Terminal phase…

1st April 2006

PENANG

1st April 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

This will enable financial closure to take place for the first phase of the port project five years after it started operations in April 1999.Liberia's National Ports Authority (NPA) has asked Global…

1st April 2006

Liberia halts inland box terminal project

1st April 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is to cede management of terminals to concessionaires as from March 2006.

1st April 2006

Nigerian concessions finally taken up

1st April 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has appointed independent advisor Crighton Anderson Corporate Finance to evaluate the bid of Christchurch City Holdings (CCH) to acquire the 31% shareholding it does not own. The…

1st April 2006

Port bid advisor appointed

1st April 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Luanda ports Strategic Plan of Modernisation covering the period 2006-2010 will result in investment totalling US$130m. This will help boost service provision and improve capacity. The plan, which was drawn up in…

1st April 2006

Luanda undertaking modernisation

1st April 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port Otago is predicting a 15-20% improvement in vessel-handling productivity from its recently-arrived ZPMC ship-to-shore crane.

1st April 2006

NEW CRANES AT TWO PORTS

1st April 2006

ASIA

ASIA

China is to invest US$1.25bn on upgrading maritime cargo facilities and eliminating bottlenecks on the Yangtze over the next five years. The River now offers a major gateway for international shipping to…

1st April 2006

YANGTZE

1st April 2006

ASIA

ASIA

Kaohsiung Harbour Bureau has issued terms covering bids for the first phase of the new International Container Terminal.

1st April 2006

New box terminal for Kaoshiung

1st April 2006

ASIA

ASIA

CMA CGM is now the only party interested in setting up an international hub port at Batam in Indonesia. Other potential investors failed to put forward bids for what is a US$218m…

1st April 2006

CMA CGM eyes Indonesian hub port project

1st April 2006