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EUROPE

EUROPE

The Baltic Sea is a busy place with over 60 ports handling some 230m tons of cargo annually. The Russian port complex at St.Petersburg is the largest of these and, in its…

1st March 2004

A POLITICAL FAVOURITE

1st March 2004

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

There has been a serious re-shuffling of the alliances on the trade routes between Europe and South America as lines seek to get to grips with an uncomfortable balance between imports and…

1st March 2004

BUOYANT TRADE PITY ABOUT THE IMBALANCE

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Coal reserves in Russia are generally agreed to be some of the best currently available, despite having problems with contamination from iron. Demand is nevertheless growing, with production increasing in 2003 by…

1st March 2004

RUSSIAN COAL EXPORTS ON FIRE

1st March 2004

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

Fools wander in where civil engineers fear to tread but speak to the specialist insurers and they all know a thing or two about contact damage and ports. There are some rough…

1st March 2004

SALUTORY THOUGHTS ON QUAY WALLS AND CRANES

1st March 2004

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

No one wants government to have too strong an influence over a privatised port environment but some sort of architecture in which coordinated development can take place is essential. The international port…

1st March 2004

GOVERNMENT MUST GET IT RIGHT

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Corus is to supply 5,000 tons of sheet piles along with pre-fabricated anchorage for the construction of two brand new multi-purpose quays, Nordurbakki and Skarfabakki, in Reykjavik.

1st March 2004

Corus goes north

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Over £ 1.3 billion is due to be invested in Port of London terminals in the next ten years and plans are underway to bring some unused wharves in London back into…

1st March 2004

Father Thames gets makeover

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

The secretary of state for infrastructure, Benigno Blanco, confirmed that Spains development ministry would invest € 32.2m in the initial phase of Tenerifes new Granadilla Port in 2004.

1st March 2004

New port development in Tenerife

1st March 2004

ASIA

ASIA

The majority of this would be spent on creating a breakwater, with some work to the quay.A report on a planned $4 billion development of Colombo port is due to be published.…

1st March 2004

$4 billion for Colombo

1st March 2004

ASIA

ASIA

The majority of this would be spent on creating a breakwater, with some work to the quay.Myanmar and Thailand are to cooperate on the establishment of a new joint-venture deep-sea port at…

1st March 2004

Joint Thai/ Myanmar port

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Algeciras is to make its largest ever yearly investment in 2004, when € 61m will be spent on infrastructure projects (see PS Jan/Feb 2004 p.16). This contrasts to € 24.4m spent in…

1st March 2004

Algeciras to invest €61m

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Marseilles' total throughput last year of 95.5m tons (3.6% up on 2002) was the highest since 1988. Key cargo growth came at Fos container terminal where a throughput of almost 533,000TEUs (+8.8%)…

1st March 2004

Marseilles lures Eastern trades

1st March 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has acquired the Ancon depot in Antwerp.

1st March 2004

ISS nabs Ancon

1st March 2004

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Israels finance ministry appears to be about to reverse its policy on privatising operations at the ports of Ashdod, Haifa and Eliat and on dismantling the ports authority structure. Any move towards…

1st March 2004

Israel defers ports privatisation

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

The first piles have been driven in a five-year project to modernise the Eurogate Container Terminal in Hamburg and attract big boxships as that group reports record handling. The project, which will…

1st March 2004

Eurogate Hamburg to pull the big boys

1st March 2004

ASIA

ASIA

Malaysian transhipment hub PTP expects to face growing competition from new ports in both Thailand and Indonesia in the near future, concedes ceo Mohd Sidik Shaik Osman, adding that developing infrastructure at…

1st March 2004

PTP concedes regional competition will grow

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

At Plymouth, the Brittany Ferries-operated services to Roscoff and Santander posted a 20% increase in ro-ro traffic.Interforest Terminal Rotterdam is expanding in the Eemhaven area with a container section and new handling…

1st March 2004

Interforest Terminal Rotterdam

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

A new £ 150m intermodal container terminal is to be built on Peel Holdings Manchester Ship Canal with a projected annual throughput over the berth of 83,000 TEUs, accommodating 250 ship calls…

1st March 2004

Ship canal gets new tri-modal port

1st March 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Cadiz Bay believes that levels of traffic reported in 2004 mean that it produced above average increases when compared to other Spanish ports, with total throughput reaching 5m tons.

1st March 2004

Cadiz growth continues apace

1st March 2004

AFRICA

AFRICA

The recent announcement that the Vridi Container Terminal concession at Abidjan, Cote DIvoire had been awarded to the French Group Bollore, caused a considerable reaction in port privatisation circles and the West…

1st March 2004

Cote DIvoire Vridi Terminal concession, done or undone?

1st March 2004