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  • Reefer monitoring
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    Reefer monitoring streamlines checks

    2010-12-18T10:00:00Z

    South African port operator Transnet Port Terminals has installed the Refcon system at its Cape Town terminal to remotely carry out temperature checks on refrigerated shipping containers.

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    Big orders for Kalmar tractors

    2010-12-17T10:00:00Z

    Over the last five months Cargotec has received contracts to supply a total of 200 Kalmar terminal tractors to Parsec Inc - the intermodal division of Cincinnati-based O/B Leasing.

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    Ports hold back on Canal congratulations

    2010-12-17T10:00:00Z

    Pacific Coast ports are mostly taking a wait-and-see attitude to the impact of the expanded Panama Canal in 2014.

  • Vanhankaupunginlahti, Helsinki, part of European Union's Natura 2000 program
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    At the waterfront

    2010-12-16T10:30:00Z

    Ports are placed at the waterfront, so the potential environmental impact of activities are manifold, writes José Fernandez Garcia. Here he gives an overview of a new set of guidelines that aim to help...

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    French seek to revive Argentinean terminal project

    2010-12-16T10:00:00Z

    The French Institute of Independent Financial Studies and Piedrabuena have offered to take over a stalled project to build the Port of Río Grande in Argentina. The debt owed by the original concessionaire, the Ormas-Andrade Gutiérrez consortium, would be assumed by the two organisations, who would invest $180m in the ...

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    Tideworks unfurls latest mainsail

    2010-12-16T10:00:00Z

    Tideworks has launched the next generation of its terminal operating system, Mainsail Vanguard.

  • Colombo is just one of Sri Lanka's ports earmarked for development. Credit - J G Morard
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    Sri Lanka hot for port development

    2010-12-15T17:56:00Z

    Sri Lanka is to press on with further port development following what a top government official described as the ''striking development'' of ships at the just-opened Hambantota port.

  • Thoresen Thai invests in Phu My port
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    Thai shipper buys into Vietnamese port

    2010-12-15T17:54:00Z

    Dry bulk shipper Thoresen Thai Agencies is to spend some 346.38m baht ($12m) to buy a strategic stake in Vietnam’s Baria Serece, which controls Phu My port, it has confirmed.

  • Indian port hopes tender process will be a success third time around
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    Third time’s a charm for Vizhinjam

    2010-12-15T17:54:00Z

    India’s Vizhinjam Port has invited tender bids from the 31 companies that submitted expressions of interest for operating the proposed port.

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    Befriend the green movement, ports told

    2010-12-15T16:54:00Z

    Australian port managers need to take on board the emerging influence of the Green movement, and be prepared to engage with its political leaders.

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    Latin Americans need port policies

    2010-12-15T16:20:00Z

    The head of the UN''s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ricardo Sanchez, has said that Latin American governments need to redefine their port policies as a means of integrating coastal ports with the region''s industrial and production sectors.

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    Container handler for Clydeport

    2010-12-15T10:00:00Z

    Clydeport has taken delivery of a new Hyster H18.00XM-12EC empty container handler to support its growing import and export operation at the Greenock Ocean Terminal, which expects an annual container throughput of 80,000 teu.

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    Mixed results expected from Congressional shake-up

    2010-12-15T10:00:00Z

    US government maritime policy is certain to change with the defeat of the Democrat who chaired the Congressional committee in charge of port affairs.

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    Latin Americans need port policies

    2010-12-15T10:00:00Z

    The head of the UN''s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ricardo Sanchez, has said that Latin American governments need to redefine their port policies as a means of integrating coastal ports with the region''s industrial and production sectors.

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    Befriend the green movement, ports told

    2010-12-15T10:00:00Z

    Australian port managers need to take on board the emerging influence of the Green movement, and be prepared to engage with its political leaders.

  • Infrastructure spending is down but not out
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    Black clouds on the funding horizon

    2010-12-15T10:00:00Z

    With the Holidays approaching, air travel delays (rather than port issues) are occupying most transport watchers.

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    Humber logistics development

    2010-12-14T10:00:00Z

    A £100m port-related logistics development on the south bank of the Humber is at the root of plans submitted by Able UK Limited.

  • Cape Town
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    Double bubble at Cape Town

    2010-12-14T10:00:00Z

    Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has installed “dual cycle” operations at its Cape Town terminal, allowing containers to be discharged and loaded simultaneously.

  • Three of the largest offshore zones can be reached within 12 hours sailing time from Hull
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    UK port bid for renewables market

    2010-12-13T14:05:00Z

    A ‘one-stop shop’ for renewable energy is being developed in the UK at Hull, with a £100m (US$158m) redevelopment of the Alexandra Dock.

  • It is not just marine wildlife that is being threatened by the vast number of Indian port projects. Photo:Greenpeace / Sumer Verma
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    India’s plans run into environmental issues

    2010-12-13T14:04:00Z

    There are a number of port proposals being turned over in Orissa at the moment, mostly related to mining shipments, an ongoing issue for India – but some are running into delays linked with environmental concerns.