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Backing for Thames wharves report
Strong support for the new report by the Mayor of London on securing the future of Thames cargo-handling wharves has come from the Port of London Authority (PLA). The PLA welcomed the recommendations and agrees that it will help further strengthen the role of the Thames for the movement of ...
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Dutch court rejects Maasvlakte 2
The highest Dutch administrative court rejected the ¢ 2.6 billion Maasvlakte 2 project to expand the port of Rotterdam, due to insufficient measures to protect the environment.
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NewsKritikos blocks sale
Ceres Terminals founder Christos Kritikos admitted that he was blocking the sale of the Ceres Paragon terminal in Amsterdam explaining that ''the price is not right, '' reports ci-online (www. ci-online. co. uk).
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NEW BOX TERMINAL FOR MARIN
Kritikos, who was instrumental in developing the terminal along with the Amsterdam municipality, sold Ceres Terminals Inc to NYK Lines in the autumn of 2002. The Perez Torres group is investing ¢1.4m in the construction of a new container terminal at Marin in northwest Spain which is due to enter ...
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Kritikos blocks sale
Ceres Terminals founder Christos Kritikos admitted that he was blocking the sale of the Ceres Paragon terminal in Amsterdam explaining that ''the price is not right, '' reports ci-online (www. ci-online. co. uk).
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NEW CANARY ISLANDS PORT
The proposed new port of Granadilla on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife will have an operating area of 310,000 sq metres, a quay 650 metres and alongside draught of 16 metres. Four quayside gantry cranes will be supplied and average vessel size is forecast to be in the region ...
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Dutch court rejects Maasvlakte 2
The highest Dutch administrative court rejected the ?2.6 billion Maasvlakte 2 project to expand the port of Rotterdam, due to insufficient measures to protect the environment.
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HOW ROTTERDAM DOES IT
Over 50% of Rotterdam''s incoming liquid cargoes consist of tropical oils such as palm and coconut oil. These, along with as soybean, rape and sunflower oil are partly transhipped directly onto inland vessels and partly stored by Vopak Vlaardingen, Koole Pernis, Maastank and Maassilo.
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PRINCIPAL CONTAINER PORT PROJECTS
LOCATION PROJECT STATUS THAMES Tilbury Container ABP/Forth Ports (FP)/P& O Ports'' TCS recently installed second berth, new gantry cranes and railhead totalling £ 50m.
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NewsSTRATEGY WHAT STRATEGY?
The UK needs a properly thought through network of container terminals around its coast. Burgeoning trade and the need for fast, just-in-time delivery; road congestion and rising road transport costs (the Working Time Directive alone will add 20% to the cost of road haulage it is estimated); the need to ...
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PORT BOSSES EXPRESS URGENCY
There is an urgent need for more deepsea container port capacity in the UK. Port operators have expressed their fear that without substantial expansion the UK''s major ports will run out of capacity within six years. According to Drewry Shipping, 99% of the UK''s imports (in volume terms) enter by ...
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Liscont to be moved to Santa Apolonia
Lisbon Port Authority (APL) has communicated to its leading deepsea container terminal Liscont that it would like it to vacate its current concession in the Alcantara zone and move to an entirely new site at Santa Apolonia. To build the proposed new terminal would cost an estimated ¢ 200m, although ...
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NewsMarseilles polls workers over plans
Marseilles-Fos handled 94m tonnes of cargo in 2004, a 1.6% drop on the previous year''s but container throughput rose 10% to 916,600TEUs. The total included 593,600TEUs at Fos and 323,000TEUs at Marseilles.
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NewsNew port for the Greater Dublin
The Drogheda Port Company (DPC) has announce its long term development strategy.
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NewsOfficial opening
Following studies, Bremore in Fingal Co, Dublin, was selected for a new deepwater port.Port of Tyne's £6.3m warehouse has been officially opened by Nigel Sherlock, Lord Lieutenant for Tyne and Wear. At 18.6 metres high, the new facility provides palletised warehousing for high value products bringing the total warehousing capacity ...
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NewsGenoa's port masterplan
¢ 4 billion port masterplan will be revised to incorporate leading architect Renzo Piano''s "Fresco of the Port of Genoa" concept. The Fresco is revolutionary in that it would transform the entire 20 kilometre coastline, from Voltri to the Fiera Exhibition Area.
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ALGECIRAS AND TANGIER NOT COMPLEMENTARY
The timescale of the plan - divided into three phases - has been estimated at 6, 12 and 18 years and will be achieved with no detrimental effect to daily port operations. Piano's plan envisages doubling the current operating surface from 200 to 400 hectares, thereby providing Genoa with the ...
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NEW PORT FOR PANAMA
The Panamanian government is due to issue a tender in 2005 for a mega-port at the Pacific mouth of the Panama Canal costing US$600m.
