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: Quayside lift for Callao
The Peruvian National Port Authority has given permission for tenders to be issued in respect of the purchase of four new cranes for the port of Callao. Contracts for two quayside gantry cranes and two yard cranes worth $33.97m are expected to be signed in August.
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ANP approves dry port
Uruguay' s National Ports Authority is to offer a concession to operate a dry port to serve the capital to be operational in 2008.
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Maersk loss hits Ensenada
The Mexican port of Ensenada registered a 4% drop in container traffic during the first four months of this year. This is the first time for at least 12 months that the port has registered a downturn, which is due to changes in Maersk' s Asian services; these no longer ...
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Cabello loses regional control
The Venezuelan port of Cabello has been nationalised. Previously, the port was managed locally by the Instituto Puerto Autónomo de Puerto Cabello (IPAPC). The move is viewed negatively by municipal and regional governments, which may freeze planned investment in facilities.
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Nova Scotia terminal
Several North American investors have put forward a project to build a new container terminal in Canso Straits, Nova Scotia. They plan to invest $300m in a 485,000 sq metre area, which will be managed by SSA Marine.
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HPH woos Mexican hauliers
HPH, Mexico' s largest container terminal operator, is negotiating a strategic alliance with road haulage companies to improve its door-to-door service for customers.
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Shadow cast on Punta Colonet project
Proposed expansions at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach could threaten the planned development of a new mega-port at Punta Colonet in Mexico' s Baja Californian region.
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Talcahuano remedial need
The Chilean port of Talcahuano requires infrastructure and dredging rehabilitation work or risks closure within two years. A single port operator is expected to be appointed, with all contracts placed by the first quarter of 2008.
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SSA invests in Tacoma
SSA Marine is to invest $300m in a new container terminal at East Blair Waterway in the port of Tacoma.
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Bolivian border port
The Bolivian government is to build a port terminal at Puerto Quijarro on the border with Brazil at a cost of $25.6m. This will enable Bolivian soya to access coastal ports via the Paraguay-Paraná inland waterway network.
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NewsManzanillo Port reaches saturation point
The port of Manzanillo in Mexico has reached virtual saturation point following a 20% hike in container traffic over the last few months.
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AMP'd up, Cavotec style
Viewed by many on the US west coast as the driver in greener solutions for powering ships in dock, Cavotec has developed three different types of its branded Alternative Maritime Supply (AMP) units. Ship-based systems, semi-fixed systems and shore-based systems offer a supply of electrical power to docked vessels, obviating ...
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TT Club speaks out on quayside accidents
Insurer TT Club has issued a strong recommendation that terminal operators fit quayside cranes with anti-collision devices to prevent incidents. Fitting electronic sensor devices to quay crane booms to prevent them accidentally colliding with ships during loading and unloading operations in port could put a stop to serious injuries to ...
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NewsGodfathers of ports
Felicity Landon asks whether the flurry of concessions and expansions being announced by the world’ s major port dons is sustainable
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PSA buys into Great Yarmouth
PSA has been named as an unexpected partner in Great Yarmouth’ s development plans.
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NewsFinal piece of jigsaw
In signing up Japanese car carrier experts NYK and K Line to its car terminal ambitions, PSA has cemented Singapore’ s number one position, writes Wing Kah-goh
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Taking stock
Other than for a select number of Chinese ports, stock exchange flotation has so far not proved a hugely popular method of raising cash in the international ports industry. Indeed, recent times have seen a number of significant players exit from public listings as they have been acquired by private ...
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NewsLesson in the importance of hinterland competition
There is not a day that passes without a senior industry executive warning of the dangers of congestion and lack of terminal capacity. I have come to the conclusion that this is usually tied to the acquisition of subsidised state funding and\or permissions from state authorities to go ahead with ...
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NewsDoes size really matter in the terminal operating game?
Interesting times in the US, sparked originally by DP World’ s forced sale of its US assets, the former P& O Ports US portfolio.
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Time for Clarity
Port tariff reform is not a subject that “ rings everyone’ s bell” , but it is an important one worth paying some attention to. Larger ports will tend to have the subject fairly high on their agenda; others in the middle range and lower are not always so diligent.
