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NewsThe Insurer
Throughout the insurance market, premium rates are falling. While the scaleback is less than alarming to insurers, and is only moderately comforting to the customers, the trend seems unstoppable for the moment. Overcapacity in insurance supply, which built up in the firm market of the last five years, has at ...
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NewsBig is beautiful
Demand for mobile harbour cranes for use in bulk handling has remained high in the first half of 2008. Felicity Landon reports
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NewsLifting coal volumes
While there are many positives to opting for a mobile harbour crane in comparison with a fixed system, there is the flip side of the coin to consider, as the Port of Tyne''s marine and technical director, Brian Reeve points out.
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Saudi traffic up
Overall, in the first quarter, ports in Saudi Arabia handled a combined 36.1m tonnes, 9.94% up on the previous year.
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Ennore compiles shortlist
Ennore Port Trust is to put together a shortlist of six bidders from the 22 that originally made offers for the concession to build the $305m 1.5m teu container terminal at the Port.
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June Oz News Snippets from Dave Mac
The Western Australian Government has approved A$194.1m (US$187m) for capital works in Fremantle. This includes deepening the Inner Harbour and approach channels, and strengthening the North Quay berths. The aim is to cater for container vessels with a draught of 14 metres.
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Turning on innovation
A specialised distribution tractor from Kalmar has been designed to get trailers between loading areas and parking twice as quickly as traditional road tractors.
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Kalmar tractors for St Petersburg
The Russian National Container Company has ordered 19 TR618i (Icon series) tractors from Kalmar for two terminals in St Petersburg. The units are scheduled to be delivered by September 2008.
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Tallinn port strategy unveiled
Estonia''s Port of Tallinn has finalised a new strategy covering the period up to 2015, which focuses primarily on containers, for which it has capacity of up to 1.2m teu per annum. The port will also concentrate on new car traffic, which currently accounts for 300,000 units annually.
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Prince lures potash
Prince Rupert port has won favour with potash specialist Canpotex as the site for a new West Coast potash terminal.
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Tanjung Priok needs congestion relief
The Indonesian Exporters Association says that Indonesia needs additional import-export facilities to relieve congestion at Tanjung Priok port. Sites at Bekasi and Karawang have been suggested as possible locations for the new ports.
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NewsShoreham boosts Hyster forklift family
UK south cost port of Shoreham has boosted its timber handling capacity with eight new Hyster Fortens H5.5FT diesel forklift trucks, featuring a high lift capacity and a small chassis with a 600mm load centre.
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Dibden Bay "safeguarded" for the future
Dibden Bay will be "safeguarded" for future use within Southampton''s port masterplanning exercise, it has been revealed.
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Rising imports swamp Vietnamese
The deputy Vietnamese prime minister has ordered the Ministry of Transport to expedite the clearance of imports and exports that are building up at ports serving Ho Chi Minh City.
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Dorset withdraws objections to Portland plans
Dorset County Council has withdrawn its objections to a major expansion at the south coast port of Portland, after the port agreed to contribute to the cost of local road improvements.
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NewsPanama targets canal traffic
Panama Port Authority is aiming to boost its logistics provision to enable national ports to operate as international hubs.
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Indo-Malaysian group gets Vizhinjam
The Malaysian company Penbinan Redzai, along with Indian partners Lanco Infratech and Lanco Kondapalli Power, has been awarded a 33-year concession to build a container terminal at the Indian Port of Vizhinjam.
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DP World falls short of Chennai performance targets
Chennai container terminal operator DP World has agreed to pay $22m in compensation for not having covered minimum container throughput figures for non-transhipment traffic between December 2006 and November 2007.
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NewsBathside Bay 'not until mid next decade'
The construction of a new UK container terminal at Bathside Bay, Harwich is unlikely to start until at least the middle of the next decade, a seminar on port congestion has been told.
