World News – Page 268
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NewsAuckland pickets over contract work
The Ports of Auckland (POAL) is suffering a backlash of picketing having announced that it will be introducing ‘competitive stevedoring’ at its Fergusson and Bledisloe container terminal operations.
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Urgent Indonesian port growth needed
Indonesia must quickly expand and modernise its ports to keep up with a recent trade boom, the country’s trade minister has said.
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Controversy surrounds Israeli crane operators
The Israeli port of Ashdod has confirmed that for every eight hour shift worked, two crane operators are employed to work each crane.
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Iraqi tensions abate over new Kuwait port
The recent tension between Iraq and Kuwait over the latter''s project to construct Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port close to the border with Iraq seems to have abated.
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Saudis place port development contracts
Saudi Ports Authority has placed contracts worth $133m to develop and maintain its ports.
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NewsPort Albany project moves forward
The Port of Albany expansion has taken an early step forward as the feasibility study has closed before schedule - and on budget.
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NewsThailand sports new ports strategy
Thailand has altered its port strategy to put emphasis on its own hubs in a change that represents a large shift in transportation thinking.
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NewsAPMT Callao investment assured
APM Terminals was granted an extension to file the required stability report for its North Terminal concession at Peru’s Port of Callao, Port Strategy has learned.
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NewsWorldwide impact from Eurozone crisis
The European debt crisis has had far reaching, if varied impact with certain areas such as Africa suffering disastrous setbacks, while others were still seeing healthy growth last year.
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NewsAn end in sight to the UK's port rate fiasco
Port based businesses in the UK facing unfair and unexpected backdated business rates bills can breathe a sigh of relief as the Government has moved to waive and repay bills this week.
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Not much comfort from a trading niche
Indian Ocean energy has a ready market and Indonesian entrepreneurs, for example, might be looking to take a leaf out of India’s copybook.
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Eight bids expected for Manta
Eight companies have been linked to the $230m development of the Ecuadorian port of Manta.
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Valencia container investment frozen
Rafael Aznar, president of Valencia port authority, has publicly acknowledged that an agreement regarding a reduction in transhipment costs may be key to unlocking future investment in container handling facilities in the port.
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Holding the key
There are Indonesian rewards to be reaped by patient investors, as Stevie Knight explains
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NewsCanada to make port tax caps permanent
Ports in the Canadian province of British Columbia aim to become more attractive to investors with a move to make the existing cap on municipal port property tax rates permanent.
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NewsTilbury biomass fire proves handling risks
A huge fire in two biomass storage hoppers at Tilbury Power Station has highlighted the challenges for ports involved in handling and storing wood pellets for power generation.
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NewsPoole explores green development options
Specialist UK sustainability, ennvironment and engineering design company, Ramboll, has secured a key advisory role to help Poole Harbour Commissioners to finalise its long term environmental masterplan for the Port of Poole.
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Next step for Teesport expansion
PD Ports has completed the ground works at its container handling capacity in Teesport UK – the next step in its strategy towards doubling its container capacity.
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Japan puts annus horribilis behind it
2011 was a year to forget for Japan and its ports. On March 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake launched a tsunami which engulfed much of the country''s coastal northeast and caused the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl in 1986.
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Hong Kong and its neighbourly rivals
Hong Kong has been one of Asia''s leading ports for generations and remains one of the top three container ports in the world.
