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NewsEurogate Hamburg to pull the big boys
The first piles have been driven in a five-year project to modernise the Eurogate Container Terminal in Hamburg and attract big boxships as that group reports record handling. The project, which will last 18 months, includes the renewal of quay walls and flood defences at the Predohlkai Berth 1 and ...
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ABP invests in Southwest
Associated British Ports'' (ABP) ports of Plymouth and Teignmouth witnessed growth in important trades in 2003, while investment programmes being undertaken at both ports are being progressed to secure the future prosperity of ABP''s southwest flank.
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NewsInterforest Terminal Rotterdam
At Plymouth, the Brittany Ferries-operated services to Roscoff and Santander posted a 20% increase in ro-ro traffic.Interforest Terminal Rotterdam is expanding in the Eemhaven area with a container section and new handling equipment. It has ordered a gantry crane from Kalmar (seen being signed up here) and leased 6.5 ha ...
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NewsHamburg moves to head off logjam
Economics senator Gunnar Uldall has warned that capacities in Hamburg could get " very tight" in the light of predictions of container growth and has launched a € 190m programme up to 2010 to head off a potential logjam.
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NewsShip canal gets new tri-modal port
A new £ 150m intermodal container terminal is to be built on Peel Holdings'' Manchester Ship Canal with a projected annual throughput over the berth of 83,000 TEUs, accommodating 250 ship calls a year. The berths will be equipped with up to six ship-to-shore gantry cranes.
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Cadiz growth continues apace
Cadiz Bay believes that levels of traffic reported in 2004 mean that it produced above average increases when compared to other Spanish ports, with total throughput reaching 5m tons.
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Felixstowe's Chinese equipment arrives
The reaction wasn't because it was the Bollore group that had secured the contract but that it had happened apparently behind closed doors without other parties being invited to tender - an attitude that prompted the local Chamber of Commence to write in protest to the World Bank. It seems ...
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NewsCARVE-UP THREAT TO DUISURG EXPANSION STRATEGY
Strategy and future planning at Europe''s biggest inland seaport and logistics service centre, Duisburg on the Rhine, appeared under a cloud as the year changed after reports that both the German Government and the local state of Northrhine Westphalia were considering selling their shares. Tom Todd reports.
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Barcelona to build third terminal
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 ...
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NewsNOURISHING THE BLUE BANANA
If the Blue Banana, the curve of light stretching from northern England through the Rhineland to northern Italy and first observed from space 15 years ago, is the economic heart of Europe, then the Benelux ports are the valves through which its lifeblood of trade is pumped, reports Nick Elliott ...
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Spanish ports invest
The three ports of Spain''s Comunidad Valenciana (Valencia, Castellon and Alicante) region will invest a combined € 397.25m in 2004, up 50% over 2002. Of this, € 115m will be contributed by various state bodies while the balance of € 281.86m (71%) will be sourced from the private sector.
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Ailes' new vehicles terminal
Spain''s Aviles port authority is to undertake a feasibility study into building a new vehicles terminal on the southern area of the San Juan Quay.
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Batumi to get new port
The revival of the Silk Road along the South-Caucasian corridor as a natural link between the Black Sea and the Caspian region is seen as providing Batumi, as well as neighbouring Poti, with significant development opportunities.
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Thamesport resurfaces
Thamesport (TMP) has resurfaced its 27,000 sq metre North Park with 70mm of DBM binder course, which was then finished with a 35mm layer of stone mastic asphalt surface course. The North Park is now able to provide an empty storage capacity of 3,270 TEUs.
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NewsHamburg threat to Rotterdam
Hamburg passed the six million TEU container barrier last year, prompting port sources to say that if strong, above-average growth continued in the premier German port, it could soon be knocking at Rotterdam''s door as far as box handling is concerned.
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Auction in Genoa
At present, container terminals at these ports are divided into completely separate berth operations, often managed by totally distinct stevedoring outfits employing a bewildering variety of loading and handling systems. As part of the new scheme, all these operations will be integrated with the aim of driving down costs by ...
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ATM steals from TMB
Bilbao''s ATM container terminal has stolen another client from rival port stevedore TMB.
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Trinidad swithers
Although there is still no decision on whom to entrust with the terminal operations contract, Port of Spain has decided to expand its box facilities to 500,000 TEU capacity.
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Oil seed mill for Bilbao
Islamabad is very keen to present Gwadar as the gateway for trade to and from the Central Asian states.Moyresa, part of the multinational Bunge Group, has asked Bilbao Port Authority for permission to build an oil seed mill and refinery on a vacant plot in the Punta Sollana area of ...
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Algeciras' largest contract
At present Itaqui has six operational berths of which one is leased by CVRD, and a seventh is currently inactive.A consortium consisting of Dragados, Sato and Drace has 32 months to implement a €100m infrastructure expansion project at Algeciras, which is the largest contract it has ever placed. The port ...
