World News – Page 501

  • East Blair Waterway: developing market properties
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    Tacoma teams up with tribe

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    The Port of Tacoma Commission and the Puyallup Tribe Council have signed an economic development agreement, setting the stage for additional maritime expansion on the East Blair Waterway.

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    XICT buys new cranes

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Xiamen International Container Terminals (XICT) has purchased two super post-Panamax quay cranes to strengthen the terminal''s productivity as well as enhance the competitiveness of the Haicang Port Zone.

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    AFRICAN PORTS PROGRESS

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    The International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH) held its Pan African Ports Conference in Douala, Cameroon last December. Steve Cameron was there.

  • Left: Under the current approach, the UK Government will decide on the Dibden Bay project without taking into account important new traffic data and capacity expansion plans at the existing terminals - what is the sense in that?
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    UK'S SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT TOO LITTLE BUT NOT TOO LATE

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    New facts and figures underline that the UK Government still has time to take a more coordinated approach to adding new containerport capacity. Mike Mundy reports.

  • St Petersburg: state reform of port administration started here
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    A POLITICAL FAVOURITE

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    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 entirety, is known as the ''Great Port''. Lena Beloglazova reports.

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    TECON'S FRUIT HARVEST

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    International Container Terminals Services Inc (ICTSI) is to invest $15m at its Tecon Suape container terminal located in north-eastern Brazil. The new investment, which will bring ICTSI''s total investment to date at Tecon Suape up to a level of $55m and includes funds for two new post-Panamax cranes and new ...

  • Hapag Lloyd . . . doing the Lambada
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    BUOYANT TRADE PITY ABOUT THE IMBALANCE

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    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 exports. Rainbow Nelson reports.

  • Black Sea: Russias Tuapse rivalled by Ukraines Yuzhny Loading at Vostochny: Chinese are after Russian terminal capacity too
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    RUSSIAN COAL EXPORTS ON FIRE

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    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 around 12% to 285m tons. Alex Hughes investigates.

  • Shanghai: bids for second phase to be invited in middle of this year
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    THE CHINA FACTOR

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Gavin van Marle examines the opportunities for foreign investors in China''s burgeoning container handling sector - and in its hinterlands.

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    Teesport savours Southern Discomfort

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Teesport Container Terminal 2 (TCT2), the recently opened second container terminal at PD Teesport in Middlesbrough, is achieving significant improvements in operational effectiveness for the port and its customers. Over the past three months PD Teesport has accomplished improved productivity with over 50 lifts per hour.

  • Murphy: I/D cards an issue
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    Teesport looks beyond ISPS

    2004-03-01T00:00:00Z

    In our November/ December 2003 issue, PS spoke to managers at PD Teesport to report on their preparations for the ISPS Code. Since then, things have been moving apace.

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    US Customs looks to cut out doubling up

    2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

    US Customs has rejected calls to take manifest details about export goods direct from other Customs agencies, saying it is unworkable.

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    US seeks IMO standards for company security officers

    2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

    However, assistant US Customs attache Peter Darvas said it will try to make the task easier by researching ways to make its systems more compatible with those used in other countries.The US wants the IMO to oversee the standards of shore-based company security officers under the auspices of the ISPS ...

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    Chinese and Trinidad & Tobago select SeaSecure

    2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Chinese government has selected maritime security and counter-terrorism consultants, SeaSecure, to provide training for the Hong Kong Marine Department in preparation for ISPS Code compliance.

  • AAPAs Nagle: applaudes TSA
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    U.S. ports welcome grants but heed shut-down warning

    2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

    US ports seeking federal grants for 1,065 security enhancement measures have learned that 442 of the plans will be funded. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) named recipients of $179,025,900 in the third round of federal grants for port security.

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    Guangzhou attracts investment

    2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Applications totalling over $987m had been submitted by ports across the country seeking funding assistance in order to comply with new U.S.The Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone, located at the very heart of the Pearl River Delta, claims to have inked nine maritime development projects worth $673m to add to eight ...

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    San Antonio to build new terminal

    2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Applications totalling over $987m had been submitted by ports across the country seeking funding assistance in order to comply with new U.S.Empresa Portuaria San Antonio has issued terms and conditions covering the construction of a new container terminal which will be located 105km from the Chilean capital Santiago. This will ...

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    Five bid for JNPT

    2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Five of eight interested parties have entered firm bids for the concession to run the third container terminal at JNPT in India.

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    Aqaba reports record throughput

    2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Applications totalling over $987m had been submitted by ports across the country seeking funding assistance in order to comply with new U.S.Aqaba Ports Corporation has acquired two MHCs from Germany to enable 85 containers/hour to be handled at its container terminal which has been handling record volumes - up 75% ...

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    Barcelona to build third terminal

    2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Applications totalling over $987m had been submitted by ports across the country seeking funding assistance in order to comply with new U.S.Barcelona port authority is to issue tenders covering the 70m Euro construction of a new 60ha container terminal at Muelle Prat. The terminal, which will have 1000 metres of ...