All Port Strategy articles in Web Issue – Page 1050
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The Insurer
By now, the best run ports and terminals in the world will know who they are. They have been courted with, and in, endearing terms by underwriters who cast longing eyes at the facilities with the most enviable records for staying free of large scale claims.
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NewsNot 'running on empty' says LA
The Port of Los Angeles has rebuked negative claims in local media about its Clean Trucks Program.
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Doha to have Dutch design
The new Doha Port in Qatar is to be designed through a partnership between WorleyParsons Qatar WLL and Royal Haskoning, which will develop the port''s master plan and full engineering design.
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Toledo strikes Novia Scotia deal
Toledo Port Authority and Melford International Terminal have signed an agreement which will see Toledo function as an inland port receiving boxes from a projected new container terminal that Melford plans to build on the Strait of Canso in Nova Scotia.
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NewsPunta Colonet delay
Mexico''s mega-port of Punta Colonet looks set to among the casualties of the world financial crisis.
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Major coal port for Vietnam
Vietnam''s Tan Tao (ITA) group has issued a tender for the construction of a power plant and sea port complex in Kien Giang province, some 300 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City.
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Tasmania consolidates box trade
Tasmania''s container trade is to be largely consolidated into the ports of Bell Bay and Devonport. The State Government wants to expand Bell Bay to handle container traffic presently moving through the Burnie, which would be freed up to concentrate more on bulk trades. The proposal has been forwarded to ...
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NewsRates - no handing back the yolk
Louise Ellman, UK MP for Liverpool Riverside, has again taken her fight against port rate rises, and the attempt of the UK Valuation Office Agency to push through three years of backdated bills, to Parliament.
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Kalmar's 4,500th straddle carrier
Kalmar has delivered its 4,500th straddle carrier to Eurogate at Bremerhaven, Germany.
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Gdansk tops 100,000 teu in 2008
The Polish container terminal operator DCT Gdansk passed the 100,000 teu mark ahead of expectations in mid December, helped by the arrival of Maersk Line at the port on the 1 December.
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Vigo spreads out
The Spanish North Western Port of Vigo has taken over 24,000 square metres at an adjacent industrial state to allow it to store granite and empty containers. It is also seeking the transfer of a further 100,000 square metres.
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São Sebastião turns to government
São Sebastião Port Authority is seeking government help to undertake restructuring of the port, where it is hoping to build a further four deep water berths. These will be developed and operated by the private sector.
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Kaliningrad hub project gathers steam
The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in the Baltic is to go ahead with construction of a new port at Baltiijsk.
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Euromax stage two tender
Rotterdam Port Authority has invited bids for construction of phase two of its Euromax Terminal, despite the fact that phase one has yet to be completed. The work involves building 300 metres of additional quay and providing an area for 17 stacking lanes of containers.
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Electric RTGs for multipurpose port
Livorno port in Italy has invested in a set of six all-electric RTGs from Kalmar. Two cranes have just been delivered and the rest are expected in the summer of 2009.
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NewsCoal port logistics
Indonesia''s coal ports have forced a rethink on ''traditional'' handling options
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Gulftainer shows 2008 growth
Volumes at Gulftainer''s terminals in the United Arab Emirates - Khorfakkan Container Terminal and Sharjah Container Terminal - grew by over 15% in 2008, reaching 2.5m teu.
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Traffic up at Tianjin
Tianjin port in northern China handled 354m tonnes in 2008, compared with 300m tonnes in 2007. Container traffic, at 8.5m teu, was up 19.7%
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Capital shortage holds up Saigon
Plans to move cargo terminals away from the Saigon River outside Ho Chi Minh City are unlikely to be fulfilled before 2010, because of a lack of investment capital.
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NewsIndonesia poised for political battle on port reform
In what could be the most momentous change in Indonesia''s port history, the country is at last poised for political battle on port reform
