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  • Last year's GreenPort Congress
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    GreenPort Congress programme released

    2012-07-26T14:38:00Z

    The programme has just been released for this year''s GreenPort Congress taking place from 3-5 October 2012 and hosted by the Marseille Fos Port Authority.

  • New private investor for Pipavav
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    New private investor for Pipavav

    2012-07-26T12:13:00Z

    There have been reports this week that The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is considering a loan which would fund over half of Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd’s (GPPL) new expansion project.

  • The marine insurance market is now more international than ever. Credit: E01
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    Not as 'London' as it used to be

    2012-07-26T11:31:00Z

    How fares the London marine insurance market? Generally as active and influential as ever, it seems, although it is not as ‘London’ as it used to be.

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    Jealously fires up regional rivalry

    2012-07-26T10:30:00Z

    Callao’s progress has made its neighbours wake up and get jealous, as they are realising that Callao is rapidly becoming the regional gateway.

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    Moving target

    2012-07-26T10:30:00Z

    The tales of two recent labour struggles underline continuing fraught relations between port operators and workers in all parts of the world.

  • TPA is closely monitoring its carbon footprint
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    Chilean port gets carbon savvy

    2012-07-25T19:07:00Z

    Terminal Puerto de Arica (TPA) has achieved an important milestone in its environmental strategy – by measuring its carbon footprint using a new Greenhouse Gases (GHG) estimation system.

  • Chile's Terminal Puerto de Arica
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    Chilean port gets carbon savvy

    2012-07-25T16:08:00Z

    Terminal Puerto de Arica (TPA) has achieved an important milestone in its environmental strategy – by measuring its carbon footprint using a new Greenhouse Gases (GHG) estimation system.

  • Ports such as Odessa can now take advantage of private investment
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    Ukrainian port reforms open up privatisation

    2012-07-25T16:01:00Z

    The port sector in Ukraine is facing landmark reforms as, after ten years of discussions, a new national seaports law has been adopted to come into effect in June 2013, writes Arthur Nitsevych, managing partner, and Olena Losevska, counsellor, Interlegal, Odessa.

  • DP World has ploughed in at least $300m into its 24 ha Callao site
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    Western wins

    2012-07-25T10:30:00Z

    Operators and consultants are on fire over the region''s prospects, writes Martin Rushmere

  • The ICS wants a fast track study into the global availability of low sulphur for ships
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    ICS wants action over low sulphur switch

    2012-07-24T15:03:00Z

    The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has called on the IMO to fast track a critical study into the global availability of low sulphur for ships.

  • Zeeland’s East Vlissingen new quay will handle larger vessels and the rising amount of coal imports Photo: Zeeland Seaports
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    Strategic new quay for Vlissingen facility

    2012-07-24T13:52:00Z

    In order to be able to handle the upcoming large size vessels, as well as being pushed by the rising need for coal imports into Germany, a new quay has been opened in Zeeland Seaports’ East Vlissingen facility.

  • The new access requirements for trucks on Maasvlakte 1 and 2 will take final effect on 1 January 2014.
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    Maasvlakte bans dirty trucks

    2012-07-24T13:08:00Z

    According to a new traffic order at the Port of Rotterdam, from 1 January 2014 onwards, all trucks with a diesel engine must have a clean Euro VI engine if they wish to enter Maasvlakte 1 and 2.

  • LNG-fuelled ships are coming but ports seem shy about making the first move
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    LNG brings benefits and challenges to ports

    2012-07-24T10:30:00Z

    The US is talking up liquefied natural gas as a world fuel, and praising its virtues as a greenhouse gas reducer.

  • AtoBviaC’s software calculates distance in both the North American ECA and SECA
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    New tool to map the US ECAs

    2012-07-23T18:13:00Z

    The imminent arrival of Emission Control Areas (ECAs) in the US is providing ship operators with new challenges in providing cost effective operation - but there is a new market opening up to address the issue.

  • Szczecin Port, Poland Photo: Mateusz War/Wikimedia Commons
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    Pre-construction work underway in Poland

    2012-07-23T15:16:00Z

    The preparatory work has begun for the proposed €13m project to modernise port infrastructure, build new terminals and buffer car parks at the two northern Poland ports of Szczecin and Swinoujscie.

  • The European Commission has approved funding for 202 new projects under the LIFE+ programme
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    EU grants €268.4m for environment projects

    2012-07-23T11:36:00Z

    Last week, the European Commission approved financial support for 202 new projects under the LIFE+ programme.

  • Montreal Gateway Terminals is part of Green Marine, a voluntary environmental alliance of 20 Canadian and US Great Lakes ports
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    Beyond electricity

    2012-07-23T10:30:00Z

    Electricity could become the poor cousin to hybrids and LNG. Martin Rushmere reports

  • Laura Sandys MP at the PATCH Workshop
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    PATCH workshop reveals blue energy potential

    2012-07-20T11:30:00Z

    Exploring the potential of wave and tidal power, or blue energy, for ports was the agenda of the recent PATCH workshop held recently in Ramsgate, UK.

  • Hydrogen is common, and easy to make
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    Often fuel cell ingredients are already on dock

    2012-07-20T10:30:00Z

    Introducing fuel cell technology is often easier than first thought; many industrial gas companies will provide and operate a hydrogen station on site and will make packaged hydrogen deliveries, points out Margery Ryan of Fuel Cell Today.

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    New Chilean deep water port confirmed

    2012-07-20T10:30:00Z

    The Chilean government is preparing a tender for a new deepwater port in its central area.