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Green light for Gladstone terminal
Environmental clearance has now been given for the construction of Wiggins Island Coal Terminal at the port of Gladstone, Australia.
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Smart Kalmar spots positioning gap
Port equipment manufacturer Kalmar has added to its cache of automated products with a tool to aide positioning of containers.
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New Santander bulk terminal
Dragados-SPL has begun the final phase construction work at its new ¢ 50m ($74.3m) dry bulk terminal in the port of Santander. Start-up traffic this year is expected to be 1.5m tonnes, rising to 2m tonnes from 2009.
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Putting wind in Tilbury's sails
The UK''s Port of Tilbury is seeking to harness wind power in a bid to cut carbon emissions and power consumption. It has submitted a planning application to Thurrock Council for the development of its own wind farm, initially for four wind turbines.
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Brazil to open up port services
A proposal before the Brazilian parliament would make it possible for domestic ports to issue international tenders when undertaking major dredging programmes.
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Philadelphia contentious land swap to go ahead
Philadelphia''s Maritime Stakeholders Group was dealt a bitter blow to its campaign to stop a land swap in the port to a non-maritime business when Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pellegrini denied their request to a preliminary injunction.
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New finance models for Bengali port
The Indian government has conceded that it may well have to look into alternative models to finance construction of the projected new deep-sea port on the west Bengal Coast.
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NewsSt Petersburg bows to dockers demands
Russian billionaire Vladimir Lisin has agreed to pay port workers at St Petersburg Seaport salary increases of between 10% and 51% as from February 1.
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NewsJaxport set for Hanjin terminal green light
Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) expects to get the green light for its third container terminal within the next six months, according to the port''s operations director Chris Kauffmann.
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NewsEIB to finance Montevideo terminal expansion
The European Investment Bank has made available a loan of $41.6m to Terminal Cuenca de la Plata and to Nelsury SA to enable expansion of the container terminal at the port of Montevideo to go ahead.
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NewsEncouraging Gaia to slow down (amended)
Despite being more environmentally-friendly than other transportation sectors, the shipping industry continues to lessen its environmental impact, as Patrik Wheater finds out
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Ports could benefit from CO2 indexing
Carbon dioxide emissions are becoming a major issue and talks are already under way to establish a CO2 emission certificate trading system for shipping. First though, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has been tasked to develop a CO2 index for ships which would form the basis of any future CO2 ...
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NewsMombasa reneges on dredging contract award
Mombasa has turned its back on Belgium dredging company Jan de Nul and temporarily suspended its dredging programme after receiving ''a better offer'' from rival Dredging International.
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Forth Ports, going, going gone?
Is the last major listed port group in the UK, Forth Ports, about to be acquired by Babcock & Brown, the same Australian-based infrastructure fund that recently acquired the PD Ports Group? Answer, yes in our view, that is if Forth Ports, the group in question, isn't snatched at the ...
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NewsNZ news snippets
Ports of Auckland chief executive Jens Madsen has incensed Port of Tauranga chief executive Mark Cairns with criticism the latter''s MetroPort Auckland inland port is an "illogical supply chain".
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ZPMC throws weight behind power regeneration
US-based VYCON has teamed up with crane manufacturer ZPMC to offer energy storage flywheel systems as a standard option to customers.
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SARS steps out
US-based SARS has expanded its international network of Automatic Identification System (AIS) sites with the addition of five sites in Chile and three in Mexico. The company''s network of AIS receivers delivers vessel traffic information for key ports and waterways, such as the identification, position, course, and speed of vessels.
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Extreme surveillance solutions
Extreme CCTV has launched a suite of new products to improve port surveillance options.
