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Jordan prepares Aqaba tender
Jordan is readying itself for a $3bn project to relocate its only port, Aqaba, to deeper waters 20 km south to expand its handling capacity. The government has confirmed that it has started the study of tender documents for the new port, which will include general cargo, industrial bulk and ...
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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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NewsNgqura 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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NewsKhor 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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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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NewsMejillones 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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NewsBurden 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.
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ANTOFAGASTA AREA AVAILABLE
Chile’ s Antofagasta Port Company is considering offering so-called “ Area C” to companies wishing to establish terminal operations in the port.
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PUNTA COLONET SUPPORT
The Mexican Minero Lobos group has made public its decision to support the Punta Colonet port tender, which is being put together by the Transport Ministry.
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PUGET EMISSIONS BENCHMARK
The Port of Tacoma, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Maritime Air Forum, has released a scientific study measuring maritime-related air emissions in Puget Sound.The inventory will form a baseline for future emissions comparisons.
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Nine Santos terminals up for grabs
Santos Port Authority is to put out to concession nine terminals by 2010.
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NewsNew Galveston hub plan
The Port Authority of Houston and Galveston has signed an agreement to build a new container terminal on Pelican Island, which is situated to the north of Galveston Island.
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PSA's departure no joke for Brunei
The timing was appropriate.April Fool’ s Day was the given date when PSA handed back operations of Muara Container Terminal, some 19 years ahead of its 25-year contract expiry date, bringing an abrupt drop in management expertise.
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NewsMalaysia's giants
Will Johor and Tanjung Pelepas ever join forces for the greater good of the country,wonders Wing Kah-goh
