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NewsDP World gives back to communities
Terminal operator DP World''s fourth Global Volunteer Week programme saw employees across the world deliver over 60 projects in partnership with 47 organisations, bringing benefits to more than 5,000 people and clocking up a new record of nearly 4,700 volunteer hours during work time.
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NewsKalmar secures Wilhelmshaven strad pilot
Kalmar is helping the STRADegy pilot project at EUROGATE''s Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven move into its next stage, with the cargo handling solutions business having won the tender to supply the automated straddle carrier system to the facility.
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NewsGävle to double capacity for growth
The largest container port on the Swedish East Coast is doubling its capacity to 600,000 teu in order to achieve continued growth.
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NewsSeason’s Greetings from GreenPort
GreenPort would like to wish all of our supporters and readers season’s greetings and send our very best wishes for a happy and successful 2018.
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NewsUS port in hydrogen power plant first
Toyota is building what it calls the world''s first Megawatt-scale 100% renewable power and hydrogen plant at the US Port of Long Beach.
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NewsMoving with the times
COMMENT: Slowly but surely, port agencies in Africa are becoming more sophisticated about how they offer port properties – container terminals, multipurpose terminals and so on – for a public-private partnership (PPP), writes Mike Mundy.
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NewsA new chapter
Philadelphia rebranding highlights the port’s future focus, finds Martin Rushmere
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NewsSanctuary for seafarers
Ports need to balance commercial realties against funding seafarer welfare. Alex Hughes reports
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NewsAutonomy preparations
Valenciaport Foundation’s Alexandre Sánchez Pérez and Jonas Mendes Constante highlight questions that port authority managers should be asking about autonomous ships.
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NewsRead the traffic signs
TT Club''s Laurence Jones explains how simple traffic management procedures can reduce incidents
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Safe as houses
COMMENT: In November, Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s leading port operator, launched its transformed property arm with a 960-hectare land bank, marking a further step in the gradual transition of the group from port operator to a development company of port, logistics and manufacturing complexes in 21 UK ports, ...
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NewsWho’s the greenest?
Felicity Landon asks if there’s a case for a sustainability ranking for ports
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NewsNigeria's new dawn
COMMENT: Finally, after more than a decade of delays at Nigeria’s National Assembly, the Nigerian Ports and Harbours Bill is in the final stages of approval that will lead to its enactment.
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NewsFinding fuel partners
COMMENT: The underlying shipping markets seem to be gathering steam, if presenters at recent ship finance conferences are to be believed, writes Barry Parker.
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NewsMuddying the water
Ballast water regs could create issues for ports as well as lines, warns Stevie Knight
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NewsDepth isn't everything
US East Coast ports continue to dig deep for business. Martin Rushmere reports
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NewsDropping coal position
As environmental initiatives bite, coal is losing favour at European ports. John Bensahlia reports
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Forging Chinese connections
COMMENT: Much of the major port and terminal investments over the past ten to fifteen years have been made by private and corporatised companies from the likes of DP World, PSA, ICTSI and SSA Marine, as well as from firms linked to carriers such as APM Terminals (Maersk), Terminal Link ...
