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Development completed at Port of Tauranga
A US$2.1m upgrade of the MetroPort Auckland inland port operation, jointly run with Toll NZ, and numerous improvements at its Sulphur Point Container Terminal are understood to be delivering significant customer service and productivity benefits to the Port of Tauranga. The developments were required to enable the port company to ...
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NewsNorth seeks to ease Southern Discomfort
Depending on your point of view, PD Ports'' plan to introduce a Northern Gateway container port on the Tees would either ease the UK''s notorious southern port congestion, or - if you''re a supporter of any or all of the three southern container terminal projects aimed at solving the problem ...
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NewsSealing the Box
Within the plethora of directives, regulations, codes and initiatives, and the accompanying smart technology that the reaction to 9/11 has given birth to, the container seal has always been in the cross hairs. Nick Elliott reports.
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What is Radio Frequency Identification?
RFID - Radio Frequency Identification - is an Automatic Data Collection (ADC) technology that uses radio-frequency waves to transfer data between a reader and a movable item to identify, categorize, and track. RFID is fast, reliable, and does not require physical sight or contact between reader/scanner and the tagged item. ...
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How and Who to Charge
A recent study by Cameron Maritime Resources has identified how governments and operators have been financing and recovering costs associated with the ISPS Code. Steve Cameron takes a snapshot of approaches around the world.
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Chinese Bottlenecks persist
Impediments to the cargo pipeline performing well, from iron ore producer to steel manufacturer, are not all, about what is happening at the exporter end in Australia.
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NewsUK Port Plans - No Election fever here!
A UK election has been called and the last time this happened when there were any particular port issues on the agenda was when Margaret Thatcher was in power and overseeing a serious round of port privatisation. Suddenly, all the deliberations were over and decisions were made on who had ...
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Privatisation: Israeili Style
Ben Hackett pursues his analysis of the port privatisation process to the Levant
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NewsSustainability versus Progress
The Bengal tiger may be an endangered species but the Indian economy is certainly not. Investment bankers talk of it as the next Asian tiger - arguably it already is.
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NewsAnd elsewhere on the Subcontinent . . .
Perhaps in response to the possibility of Sethu becoming reality, by which Indian ports will attempt to lure significant amounts of cargo away from Colombo, the Sri Lanka Ports Authority has revealed that it is planning construction of four new container terminals at Colombo. The first phase of construction will ...
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NewsDemocracy in Action
Gavin van Marle spent several months roaming India recently. His report reveals how a stifling bureaucracy and genuine democracy form a two-edged sword in a country whose port sector is intent on progress.
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NewsAngolan Angst
Steve Cameron provides an update on the tortuous process of concessioning out terminal operations in Africa.
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NewsNot in my Back Yard!
The relationship between ports that need to develop and their surrounding social and ecological environments is very often a matter for heated debate with the NIMBY factor usually to the fore.
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Deal with EIA sooner rather than later
Here Royal Haskoning makes a rational appraisal of a sensitive subject.Recommendations resulting from the EIA process may affect development by requiring changes that influence the design, economic viability or timing of implementation in order for the development to gain approval. To be of most benefit it is necessary for EIA ...
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GIJON BUILDS BULK CAPACITY..
Work has started on the ¢ 580m expansion of the port of Gijon, the primary aim of which is to add new capacity for coal and iron ore cargo flows.
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NewsMaersk will dominate Straits
By 2007, it is expected that Maersk will effectively control most of the traffic passing through ports around the Straits of Gibraltar due to its presence at Algeciras, Malaga and Tangier. The Danish company recently signed a 30year concession to build and manage the new TangierMediterranean port, which it will ...
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..AND LA CORUNA NEW PORT
Also in northern Spain, Dragados is heading up the consortium that is building the initial phases of the new port at La Coruna at a cost of € 429m.
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NewsPost-Panamax units planned for Gdynia
Speaking on the occasion of the delivery of a new Panamax dimension quayside container gantry to ICTSI''s Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in Gdynia, Tom Falknor, president, BCT, unveiled the terminal''s further plans: " Two post-Panamax cranes are to be purchased, " explained Falknor, " in order to meet terminal user ...
