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Dar es Salaam terminal offer
Tanzania Port Authority is to go ahead with the privatisation of operations at the Dar es Salaam’ s general cargo terminal. An outside operator is expected to be in place by June. 
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Ngqura development ploughs ahead
South Africa’ s National Port Authority has decided to implement the € 363m ($489.7m) first phase development of Ngqura without private sector partners. However, it is still interested in collaborating with external companies to take forward the container terminal project. 
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Khor Fakkan boasts record moves
Gulftainer’ s Khor Fakkan Terminal produced record handling figures of 237 moves per hour with four super post-panamax cranes when the CMACGM La Traviata called last month. 
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APM not eyeing Australian ports
AP Moller-Maersk subsidiary APM Terminals has denied recent New Zealand media speculation it is actively planning to buy port terminals in either that country or Australia.
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Newcastle rationing about turn approved
Australia’ s competition watchdog, the ACCC, has given draft approval for capacity rationing to return to the port of Newcastle. The approval authorises rationing until the end of this year, and assumes that under the amended system,the total volume of coal exports is unlikely to be reduced.
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Lyttelton callers boost volumes
Lyttelton Port of Christchurch is expecting calls from the weekly Maersk Line Pacific Island service and the currently fortnightly CMA CGM New Europe, Mascarene and Orient (NEMO) service will raise its annual container volume by about 10% to 200,000 teu.
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MELBOURNE WATER WAR
The Port of Melbourne Corporation has reported that visiting ships have drastically reduced their intake of potable water in an effort to play their role in water conservation. 
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QUEENSLAND SHUNS NVESTMENT
Privately-operated coal terminals in Queensland have rejected any offer to publicly fund their export infrastructure, despite vessel queues reaching record levels. 
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MARLBOROUGH SAFETY DRIVE
They feel that their private investments are underpinned by long-term contracts with mining companies and therefore public money is unnecessary.Marlborough harbourmaster Captain Alex van Wijngaarden is seeking radar, expansion of the automatic information system and adoption of the pending non-mandatory New Zealand Port Marine Harbour Safety Code, to ensure the ...
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GLADSTONE COAL GOAL
A new A$200m ($165.8m) ship loader will add an extra 10m tonnes to the export coal capacity of Gladstone’ s RG Tanna Coal Terminal. The commissioning follows a 20% increase in capacity at the port in the last 12 months.
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NEW NORTHPORT CEO
Northport has appointed qualified Master Mariner Jon Moore as its new chief executive, in light of the pending retirement of Ken Crean in June.
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SAN VICENTE EXTENSION
San Vicente Terminal Internacional has been granted a 15-year extension to its container terminal concession at the Chilean port of the same name.The concession will now run for 30 years as from January 1, 2000. 
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BRAZIL EYES EUROPEAN HUBS
A Brazilian engineer attached to Santos Port Authority (Codesp) is to visit 20 ports in Europe over the next four months to identify strategies that Brazil needs to adopt to develop major hub ports. 
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ALINPORT STARTS POSORJA
The Spanish company Alinport has begun construction of the port of Posorja in Ecuador, which will occupy a 200,000 square metre area.Total cost is $450m.
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SANTA CATARINA LEADS
Santa Catarina, with investment of € 491m ($664.3m), is Brazil' s leading port this year in terms of private capital.Part of the money is being spent on constructing two new complexes, various terminals, on new equipment and modernising existing installations. In Brazil as a whole, € 1.4bn ($1.9bn) is being ...
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PURETECH HALIFAX COUP
Halifax Port Authority has awarded a wide-area surveillance contract to PureTech Systems.The technology will be installed under a C$8m (US$7.2m) contract.
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Brazil offers trucker incentives
Brazil has passed a federal law limiting the amount of time a truck driver has to wait before being attended to at the port of Rio Grande in a bid to prevent the hold-ups that plagued last year’ s bumper harvest. Now,if a truck driver has to wait more than ...
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Mejillones in major refinancing
Chile’ s Angamos Port, which is better known as Puerto Mejillones, is to undertake a $60.6m refinancing involving Corp Banca and BCI. 
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Burden of bureaucracy
Terminales Internacionales del Ecuador (TIDE) believes that there are bureaucratic obstacles in place that mean potential cargo is still being displaced to terminals in Guayaquil rather than going through its port of Manta. 
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Pedregal port concession challenged
The governor of the Panamanian province of Chiriquí has asked Panama Maritime Authority to have another look at the concession awarded to a company in Pedregal port, which he believes has not stuck to agreed investment plans.