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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
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NewsThe ever-increasing reach of Philippines' darling ICTSI
The Philippines’ dominant terminal operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc continues to widen its national reach.Most recently it expressed interest in bidding for the 25- year contract to handle cargo at the port of Batangas, situated two hours south of Manila on the main island of Luzon.
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NewsNumber crunching
Mike Mundy unveils the findings of a new study focusing on South East Asian port costs
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NewsLife after feedering
Black Sea ports are following Constantza’ s lead to take on a transhipment role in the region.Alex Hughes reports
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NewsRussian roulette
Slow investment at the country’ s leading seaport has allowed competing ports to leap-frog Novorossiysk, as Alex Hughes explains
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Odessa celebrates leap in throughput
The container terminal at the Novorossiysk’ s neighbouring port of Odessa, which is run by a subsidiary of Hamburg Port Consulting, handled 395,563 teu in 2006 compared with 279,812 teu the year before. This 41% increase, notes public relations deputy general director Svetlana Yarovaya, can be attributed to a number ...
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NewsNew beginning
Ecuador’ s main port gateway, Guayaquil, is about to harness significant foreign investment and expertise from international terminal operator ICTSI.Mike Mundy reports July 1 this year will usher in a new era in port operation and development in the world’ s most prolific banana producer, Ecuador.
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ICTSI ready to ring the changes at Guayaquil
Alex Villacres Sanchez, president of the Directorate of the Port Authority of Guayaquil, explains that under the terms of its concession agreement ICTSI will invest $168m in the port in the first five years of its 20-year concession. Key features of this investment will include:
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NewsSECCONDD chance for seals
The next generation of standardised container seals is already in the offing, Felicity Landon reports
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Electronic seals here to stay
Electronic seals for containers are the way of the future and there is no way back, says Frans Jol, spokesman for the SMDG group.
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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.
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ABB ASIAN BONANZA
Zurich-based engineering company ABB has netted more than $65m in orders for crane systems at Asian ports.The contracts cover the supply of automation and electrical systems for 74 ZPMC cranes, for delivery in 2008 and 2009.
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JADE'S EASTERN PROMISE
New Zealand’ s Jade Software Corporation has signed an Memorandum of Understanding with CMC Limited of India to “ accelerate the rate of use and deployment of Jade technology and applications” .
