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Bromma boosts South America business
The main access will be between Buenaventura and Puerto Lopez on the Meta River, from where there will be improved access to Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela. "We are delighted with the many successful partnerships we continue to develop with container terminals in Latin America, Mexico, and the Caribbean" said Lars ...
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Ecuadorians fear competition from outsiders
Small port terminal operators in Ecuador are somewhat worried by the emergence of major port development projects, such as Manta and Posorja.
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US PURCHASE FOR KALMAR
Kalmar has acquired American service company Port Equipment Service to "strengthen its position in US ports".The deal, sealed at an undisclosed sum, will see the founders of PES, Dan Stevens and Tom McDonough, continuing to run the existing intermodal and port service business,while the entire Port Equipment Service operation will ...
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Scanning partnership to improve security
Container radiation scanning specialist VeriTainer and shipping optical character recognition developer APS Technology have teamed up to offer high-tech box identification at ports.
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NewsLibra moots Santos investment increase
The Libra Group, Brazil''s leading port container operator, is looking to invest $12m in Terminal 37 at the port of Santos, which would also involve the acquisition of two quayside gantry cranes, each of which would cost $6m. In 2006, Libra ploughed $23m into the terminal in the form of ...
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Port wants to keep short sea discounts
Santos Port Authority (Codesp) has asked the Port Authority Council (CAP) to be allowed to keep offering 50% discounts for transhipment and cabotage traffic in the port for at least a further six months.
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NewsStar Performer
With traffic across East Africa and the Indian Ocean continuing to grow,Mombasa is taking its future role seriously, as Alex Hughes finds out
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The privatisation quandary
Privatisation of Mombasa Container Terminal has been under discussion for a long time and while no time frame has been set as yet, a committee comprising officials from both the government and port authority is looking into this issue.
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NewsDry bulk bonanza
A slight dip in 2006 throughput should prove no hurdle to growth in 2007 at Africa''s key ports. Alex Hughes reports
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Mozambique's Beira has grand aspirations that could knock Durban off its direct call perch
A planned dredging programme is integral to the future success of the Mozambican port of Beira to push it into the direct call league. This modest African box handling facility - in comparison with Richards Bay - lies 20km from the open sea.
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NewsFeeder king
Port Louis continues to draw in the main shipping players, but it is not complacent as Alex Hughes finds out
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NewsA tale of two deltas
The Pearl river delta led the way in China''s capitalist drive,now it faces overcapacity and overtaking by its Yangtze cousin. Wing Kah-goh investigates
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Hibiki shake-up
Illustrative of the general decline of Japanese ports, news reaches Port Strategy of severe discontent at the nation''s very first private port initiative.
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Kaohsiung throws good money after bad
At Taiwan''s premier port of Kaohsiung there is a bunker mentality setting in which threatens to waste taxpayers money on an extraordinary level. Fact: Taiwan is not the manufacturing centre it once was.Fact:China is,thanks in part to Taiwanese industries relocating. Seven years ago,Kaohsiung was the third largest boxport in the ...
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NewsBusan policy shift
Port management have wised up to reality and are seeking out new ways to boost stagnant volumes, as Wing Kah-goh finds out
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NewsWinds of Change
Brownfield sites and generally windy conditions near the coast - what better place than a port to put up wind turbines? Felicity Landon finds out how ports can harness alternative energy
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Record-breaking energy farming
Approval for planned wind farms off the UK''s Kent coast could put the Port of Ramsgate at the centre of the new development. The London Array, the world''s largest wind farm project, will consist of 341 turbines situated between Margate and Clacton.
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NewsBlazing a trail
The United Kingdom port of Blyth is something of a centre of excellence when it comes to renewables.
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NewsGreen credentials
"Environment"is a word that will progressively burn its way into the psyche of business in the 21st century. Inevitably, with trends in motion such as global warming, there will increasingly be a balance to be struck between the requirements of business and those of preserving the environment.
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More trouble at the transhipment "mill"
More labour trouble in Gioia Tauro to the extent that Contship Italia, the transhipment terminal''s operator, has issued threats about exiting the terminal. The visible cause of the problems is the newly formed union Sindacato dei Lavoratori (SdL) which claims to represent 350 of the terminal''s 650 workers and which ...
