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NewsShow me the MONEY PART II
In his second article on port pricing, Gustaaf de Monie points the way to a more independent regime in which port authorities need to operate, free of political interference.
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NewsBUSAN - COUNTING THE COST
In the weeks after Typhoon Maemi''s visitation upon Busan, the parties concerned are starting to count the cost. Sources say that Typhoon Maemi has extended the range of what scale of loss can be imagined for a modern container port. It is already looking like the largest insured loss in ...
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MARRYING THE NEW TO THE OLD
Thirty-odd years ago a little single-decker called the HELMSDALE traded from Orkney to Leith with barrels, butts and hogsheads for the Midlothian distilleries. The whisky cargo was just too much of a temptation for the stevedores. The gangs trouped on board armed with plastic buckets. " Watch and learn laddie, ...
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NewsThe 'Landmines' to Avoid
Mike Mundy draws on his experience of the port privatisation process and highlights the " landmines" government agencies and port authorities keep stepping on
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NewsGRAIN EXPORTS Parched by the Weather
Changing global weather patterns are playing havoc with the market for world grain, writes Alex Hughes .
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NewsLong Beach cuts coke dust
The percentage of petroleum coke dust found in samples collected around the port in the first quarter of this year shows a 7% concentration, only slightly higher than the 6% found in the first quarter of 2002. The concentration remains down significantly from the 21% in 1996 and the 19% ...
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NewsTyne nurtures modal shift and lapwings
The Volkswagen Group has opened its new eco-friendly £ 5.6m Tyne Distribution Centre. The 20-hectare car import facility at Maritime Park, North Shields, is a secure storage compound accommodating up to 8,000 cars. Approximately 60,000 cars will pass through the port in 2004. 200 people have worked on the site, ...
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Africans need to upgrade port security
Ferdinand Gauze, president of the Port Management Association of West and Central Africa, has called upon member states to make a collective effort to fight terrorism and implement the new International Port & Ship facility code.
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NewsFeinstein concerned over uranium shipment
" I think this is a case in point which established the soft underbelly of national security and homeland defence in the United States, " Californian democratic senator, Dianne Feinstein stated recently.
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Ledwood's Surveillance Buoy
Ledwood Technology is introducing a PC based coastal surveillance system.
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NewsThales offers alternatives to improve port security
Thales Navigation has come up with two interesting systems challenging AIS (Automatic Identification System). The launch of its advanced Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) has reopened the debate about tracking ships to aid maritime security.
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NewsChinese Typhoon
Gavin van Marle reports on the scramble for additional container terminal capacity in China.
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NewsCAPITAL DREDGING more cost effective than ever
Alex Hughes explores the crucial link between dredging and a nation' s economic performance.
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APM leases Shanghai berths
APM Terminals has leased six berths at Shanghai''s Waigaoqiao Container Terminal complex for a period of 50 years from Shanghai Port Container Company.
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NewsForth Ports weighs up MDHC
The Scotsman has reported that Forth Ports is mulling a takeover approach to Mersey Docks and Harbour Company to create a £ 500m port and property giant.
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Chittagong to get gantries
Construction of Chittagong''s New Moorings container terminal is due to start this year and be completed by December 2005.
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NewsConstantza hopes for a smooth river
A quarter of all cargo handled each year in the Black Sea port of Constantza, or 10m tonnes, comes from inland shipping on the Danube. With the first stage of a new container terminal opening this year, the Romanian port is hoping for stability on that waterway.
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Pre-feasibility study for new Panama Canal in October
Consultants Parsons Brinkerhoff International and Montgomery Watson-Harza are due to present a prefeasibility study for the Panama Canal expansion project this month with final studies then to be undertaken in 2004. The new Canal project is being driven by the ever-expanding size of the world' s maritime fleet, of which ...
