All Port Strategy articles in Web Issue – Page 1148
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PSA's departure no joke for Brunei
The timing was appropriate.April Fool’ s Day was the given date when PSA handed back operations of Muara Container Terminal, some 19 years ahead of its 25-year contract expiry date, bringing an abrupt drop in management expertise.
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NewsTrouble brewing
Laem Chabang’ s expansion doesn’ t add up:too many berths, too few boxes equals trouble, suggests Wing Kah-goh
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BRAZIL EYES EUROPEAN HUBS
A Brazilian engineer attached to Santos Port Authority (Codesp) is to visit 20 ports in Europe over the next four months to identify strategies that Brazil needs to adopt to develop major hub ports.
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Brazil offers trucker incentives
Brazil has passed a federal law limiting the amount of time a truck driver has to wait before being attended to at the port of Rio Grande in a bid to prevent the hold-ups that plagued last year’ s bumper harvest. Now,if a truck driver has to wait more than ...
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NewsSmarter box moves
Well-designed and implemented container terminal management systems can make a huge difference to productivity, as David Foxwell finds out
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NewsWhere's my box?
Customers want to know exactly where their container is in the supply chain and terminals need to have the information at their fingertips. David Foxwell reports
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NewsTop to bottom control
Central Systems & Automation in the UK cites the example of the container terminal management system at the Port of Waterford in Ireland as an excellent example of how technology can help container terminals respond to the challenges facing them. A key commercial pressure facing Waterford Container Terminal (WCT) is ...
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SPANISH RTG BOOST
Grupo Boluda Corporacion Maritima confirmed an order for eight rubber-tyred gantry (RTGs) cranes, while Dragados ordered a further six RTGs from Konecranes.
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NewsLyttelton callers boost volumes
Lyttelton Port of Christchurch is expecting calls from the weekly Maersk Line Pacific Island service and the currently fortnightly CMA CGM New Europe, Mascarene and Orient (NEMO) service will raise its annual container volume by about 10% to 200,000 teu.
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NewsKhor Fakkan boasts record moves
Gulftainer’ s Khor Fakkan Terminal produced record handling figures of 237 moves per hour with four super post-panamax cranes when the CMACGM La Traviata called last month.
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Taking on the task of global port benchmarking
A recent report on “ Measuring Port Performance” produced by the World Bank emphasises from the start that is not possible to determine “ common” port performance benchmarks which would be applicable for any port.
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PUGET EMISSIONS BENCHMARK
The Port of Tacoma, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Maritime Air Forum, has released a scientific study measuring maritime-related air emissions in Puget Sound.The inventory will form a baseline for future emissions comparisons.
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BEJAÏA INVESTS
Bejaïa Mediterranean Terminal, a joint-venture between Enterprise Portuaire de Bejaïa and Singapore’ s Portek International, will invest $20.2m in upgrading the container terminal it manages in the port of Bejaïa.
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NewsNew beginning
Ecuador’ s main port gateway, Guayaquil, is about to harness significant foreign investment and expertise from international terminal operator ICTSI.Mike Mundy reports July 1 this year will usher in a new era in port operation and development in the world’ s most prolific banana producer, Ecuador.
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NewsWhen u[grades become a serious consideration
Obsolescence can sometimes be a key driver in the quest for crane upgrades, as Gottwald company spokesperson Peter Klein explains.
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Swiss-challenge in Subic Bay
A Swiss-challenge bidding system has been adopted in the Philippines for the award of a 30-year contract to manage Container Terminal 1 at Subic Bay Freeport.
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Babcock & Brown plans investment fund
Australian finance group Babcock & Brown is reported to be seeking to raise up to € 2bn ($2.7bn) to feather a new European investment fund for the future financing of ports and freight transport speculations.
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NewsSaigon favours electric avenue
Vietnam’ s Saigon Newport Company (SNP) has plumped for ten Kalmar Industries E-One type rubber-tyred gantry (RTGs) cranes, underlining the increasing demand for environmentally sensitive handling machines.
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NewsAuto-pilot for Kalmar facility
Its first project will be to test the automation and control systems developed for HHLA’ s conversion of Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) from straddle carriers to automatic stacking cranes (ASC), pictured here.
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NewsAutomation the key for Euromax
ECT Euromax Terminal, currently under construction at Rotterdam, has taken delivery of 12 automated rail mounted gantry (ARTGs) cranes to work the stacking lanes at the terminal.
