Europe – Page 129
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FIRST SEA MOTORWAY CONTRACTS
The governments of Spain and France have issued the first tenders covering seven motorway services between ports on their Atlantic and northern coasts. These are expected to enter into service in 2008 and attract a subsidy of € 15m ($20.3m) per service from the Spanish state, while France has put ...
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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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MOTA-ENGIL ACQUISITION
Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil has acquired port terminal operator Multiterminal for € 25m ($33.8m).
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HASKONING STRENGTHENS SERVICES
Specialist consultant Royal Haskoning has purchased UK transport consultant Denis Wilson Partnership in a bid to take its operations “ beyond the waters’ edge” .The marriage will bring Denis Wilson’ s expertise in inland logistics and transport planning to Haskoning clients,offering what the company claims will be a “ one-stop ...
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HEROD FOR MOFFATT
Ex-Associated British Ports’ executive David Herod has joined the London team of consultant Moffat & Nichol.
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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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Box traffic to hit 1bn by 2020
Andrew Penfold, director of Ocean Shipping Consultants, anticipates that total container traffic will hit 1bn teu by 2020, building on last year’ s total of 426m teu and 2015 estimates of 600m teu.
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Rotterdam on the slab with ThyssenKrupp deal
Steel specialist ThyssenKrupp Steel has announced that it will favour Rotterdam when it expands its manufacturing capacities around the world.
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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.
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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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NewsMarseilles takes the long view
In an attempt to put crippling strike action earlier this year behind it, Marseilles has announced a string of investments to secure its future growth.
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NewsPort workers need never be alone
The UK’ s Argyll Telecom has launched a waterproof device for mobile personnel monitoring allowing easy pinpointing of workers in an emergency. The MaxCare device, which can be worn on the arm, leg, shoulder, waist or sewn into an item of clothing, combines mobile phone and satellite location monitoring technology.
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Congestion stunts liner reliability
Port congestion is being blamed for the massive failure of liner ships to meet their scheduled berthing slot this year.
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EL PRAT PUT BACK TO 2010
Partial opening of Barcelona’ s El Prat Quay has been put back to mid-2009. This follows the collapse on January 1, 2007 of one third of the 1,500 metre quay line.
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CYBIT LOCATOR LAUNCH
Online Telematics Service Provider Cybit has launched Cybit Positioning Solutions (CPS) to provide specialist telematicsbased solutions to industries requiring precision location and positioning information.The technology can be used to manage busy operations in ports and harbours.
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Mark of quality for container terminals
Classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has spearheaded a drive to develop a benchmarking system for terminals.
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Personal injury claims on the rise
Personal injury and handling equipment incidents on the quayside are on the up in Europe and the US, as ports struggle to boost capacity to meet the challenge of China.
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NewsLack of Spark
A review of Scottish ports’ policy produced few recommendations for change, instead it highlighted the importance of landside infrastructure links, as David Foxwell reports
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Bremen/Bremerhaven secures feedership role for the future as JadeWeserPort project gets go-ahead. Tom Todd reports
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Changing tide of German opinion
Few now appear to doubt the future strategic importance of what will be Germany’ s only deep-water container terminal: the idea, once scoffed at, appears to have literally grown on Germans.
