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  • The new system is able to tell a ship what restrictions are in place as well as acquiring information from the vessel. Photo:R Kidd
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    Untangling the regulations

    2011-04-28T11:46:00Z

    Ports stand to benefit from a system that will not only deliver class–specific regulation requirements to visiting ships, but will also highlight where the rules contradict each other.

  • Poti has a large market share, but there is still room for development
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    Poti’s potential leveraged by APM

    2011-04-28T11:46:00Z

    Poti is to benefit from a promised $100m of investment after Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (Rakia) sold an 80% stake in the port to APM Terminals.

  • The Yangtze river near Wuhan is seeing  a rise in box volumes. Photo: V Menkov
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    Wuhan's Yangsi terminal to be vacated

    2011-04-28T11:46:00Z

    According to the Wuhan Port Group, all the facilities at the city’s Yangsi container terminal will start to be transferred to the Yangluo terminal from 18 May – but the move is not without controversy.

  • Busan's development is coming on in leaps and bounds
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    The sky's the limit

    2011-04-28T10:00:00Z

    Halfway through building Busan New Port - with some 18 of the planned 30 berths already working - Busan Port Authority is moving swiftly toward its goal of redefining the port.

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    DP World's Vietnamese venture needs dredging help

    2011-04-28T10:00:00Z

    A senior DP World manager has met civil authorities in Ho Chi Minh City to lobby for dredging work on the Soai Rap River to be speeded up as a means of facilitating its port terminal project. Development at Saigon Premier Container Terminal is now behind schedule and large containerships ...

  • Korea has managed to avoid competition between its national ports
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    Taking centre stage

    2011-04-27T10:00:00Z

    Michael Mackey discusses Korea''s drive to become North East Asia''s hub port of choice

  • It's time to join the world of electronic data transfer
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    Joining the electronic age

    2011-04-27T10:00:00Z

    Shipowners, traders and technologists have taken the lead in catapulting that centuries-old document, the bill of lading, into the electronic age.

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    Port legal ruling call in Indonesia

    2011-04-27T10:00:00Z

    Jakarta''s National Maritime Institute is to file a judicial review request at the Constitution Court, citing a conflict-of-interest between the interests of the Port Authority Board (BOP) and state run ports. This involves differing interpretations over various articles that regulate BOP, which may or may not allow it to interfere ...

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    Brazil ups investment in ports

    2011-04-27T10:00:00Z

    The Transport Infrastructure Department of Brazil has been given a budget of $9.34bn for 2011, which will have to be shared equally between highways, waterways and railways.

  • JNPT takes in around half of the country's maritime traffic
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    Doing more with less

    2011-04-26T10:00:00Z

    Draught issues have failed to dent throughput at India''s gateway port, as Stevie Knight discovers

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    Paradip announces expansion plans

    2011-04-26T10:00:00Z

    Paradip Port Trust has outlined a plan to boost capacity more than three times to 237m tonnes by 2020.

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    Tales from the riverbank

    2011-04-25T10:00:00Z

    A trade delegation from Bangladesh has been making the rounds recently, drumming up international interest in the country’s ambitious programme to provide an efficient transportation network.

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    Port Tarakohe options mulled

    2011-04-25T10:00:00Z

    Tasman District Council has announced it will be reviewing all options for the future of Port Tarakohe as it prepares its next ten-year plan.

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    Gladstone commits to trainees

    2011-04-25T10:00:00Z

    Gladstone Port Corporation has taken on a record number of new apprentices and trainees, representing 10% of the port’s workforce. The port has particularly committed to encouraging indigenous youth to apply for traineeships. Year-long traineeships provide on the job experience working in various areas of the port.

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    Japanese marginalised at Mombasa

    2011-04-24T10:00:00Z

    The $280m expansion plan at the Kenyan port of Mombasa could be under threat, if rumours of an investor cull prove true.

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    VeriTainer offers lower-cost radiation detector

    2011-04-24T10:00:00Z

    VeriTainer has launched a budget version of its patented radiation scanning system to address asset protection on dock.

  • The new terminal aims to snare some cargo from Chennai
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    ICTSI takes on two more terminals

    2011-04-23T10:00:00Z

    International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has won two management contracts, one for an Indian terminal and the other in Subic Bay, both taking advantage of the roaring Asian economies.

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    ‘e-harbours’ challenges North Sea energy use

    2011-04-23T10:00:00Z

    A recently-launched cross border ‘e-harbours project’ is to tackle energy consumption of ports in the North Sea region.

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    Grimsby car planning driven through

    2011-04-23T10:00:00Z

    Associated British Ports’ planning application for a dedicated two berth ro-ro terminal has been approved, paving the way for larger car carriers to dock. The new terminal will cater for ships carrying in excess of 3,000 cars. The Port of Grimsby and Immingham is already the UK’s busiest car-handling port, ...

  • DP World's new Qasim terminal urgently needs a long-awaited dredging project to get the green light
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    Plumbing the depths

    2011-04-22T10:00:00Z

    Depth is on the mind of Pakistan’s Port Qasim: dredging work has been the subject of dark mutterings and the authority has only recently signed its 2010/11 contract – with an expected loss of $70m from the delay.