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  • The UK’s CRC scheme originally had more carrot to it, but now there’s more stick
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    Now it really matters

    2010-11-28T13:27:00Z

    Long before the UK’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) became a reality, some companies were advising clients on the need to cut the over-use of resources.

  • Cruise Gateway’s partners - some large, some small
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    Variety is key

    2010-11-28T13:25:00Z

    Cruise Gateway’s partners include some heavy-hitting partners from the sector – such as Kiel, Rotterdam, Bremen, Hamburg and Harwich. But they also include ports such as Esbjerg and Aberdeen, who are starting to build steadily on the advantages they offer the cruise sector.

  • Most efforts to date are piecemeal actions by individual ports or shipping companies
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    All together now

    2010-11-28T13:23:00Z

    Air pollution from the international shipping industry takes a huge toll on public health and the climate. It causes tens of thousands of premature deaths each year in coastal port cities

  • Michael Stange: “We are trying to ...make things more practical for shippers and users.”
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    Another way to efficiency

    2010-11-27T13:26:00Z

    “It is really a different approach to our colleagues within the ports, where they are taking very specific environmental actions,” says Michael Stange, who represents the City of Hamburg, Port Integration’s key partner.

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    A community feel

    2010-11-26T10:00:00Z

    Port Community System operators are looking to expand their influence far beyond the port itself. Michael King reports

  • There are a number of ports that will develop with China’s Yangtze initiative underway
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    Yangtze venture on the cards for APMT

    2010-11-25T16:57:00Z

    APM Terminals is looking at possible Chinese river port ventures, specifically in the Yangtze.

  • The new deep sea port at Hambantota is at the heart of many of Sri Lanka’s ambitions
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    Sri Lanka’s new port opens early

    2010-11-25T16:56:00Z

    Sri Lanka''s new deep sea port at Hambantota, on the south coast of the island, has been officially opened almost half a year ahead of schedule.

  • Wolfgang Schwab “Some are in for an unpleasant surprise”
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    New data requirement may cause delays

    2010-11-25T16:56:00Z

    Port operations may well be impacted by shipper’s lack of readiness for the first phase of the new Import Control System (ICS) says a trade and logistics solutions provider.

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    Polish conversion

    2010-11-24T10:00:00Z

    The fact that Poland’s newest container terminal DCT Gdansk took a long time to find the financing required for its set-up was no accident.

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    Pushing the right buttons

    2010-11-24T10:00:00Z

    The flow of information a port needs is simply pushing electrons around, says Michael Schwank. Pushing the right ones in the right direction will make life easier for all concerned.

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    Beating bottlenecks

    2010-11-22T10:00:00Z

    Don''t spend on reducing gate bottlenecks until you''re sure of the return on your investment. Stuart Pearcey reports

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    Safety first for APM

    2010-11-20T21:51:00Z

    All facilities in the APM Terminals stable observed Global Safety Day on October 12, with themed events and training to improve safety performance and standards.

  • KONECRANES: handling certain commodities with an FLT implies the use of attachments
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    Many variables to finding the perfect fit

    2010-11-19T10:00:00Z

    Konecranes does not make many of the more widely used attachments for forklifts because specialist producers are more experienced and have the necessary engineering capability to make a much better product, says Konecranes FLT expert Mikael Andersson.

  • Even port developments in developing countries are affected by environmental assessment requirements as they are often funded by international funding agencies as a condition for the award of any grant or loan
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    Not in my back yard!

    2010-11-18T17:56:00Z

    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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    New Zealand's Lyttelton battles subsidence

    2010-11-17T18:57:00Z

    Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) chief executive Peter Davie has advised his port’s container terminal - which has already slumped 20-30 centimetres following the major earthquake on September 4 - could continue sinking for the next three years.

  • US west coast port eyes international business. Credit: Port of Los Angeles
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    Los Angeles on hunt for global marketeers

    2010-11-17T18:54:00Z

    Los Angeles’ port is to boost its global standing through a chain of worldwide satellite marketing offices.

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    Vietnam's Cam Ranh gets new lease of commercial life

    2010-11-17T18:53:00Z

    Vietnam’s Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh has said that Cam Ranh Port, a major war era facility, will not become a foreign military base but will instead be adapted to serve cargo ships.

  • Port Strategy: Cambodian hub is omitted from listing plans
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    Sihanoukville left out in the cold

    2010-11-17T18:53:00Z

    In a surprising move, government officials in Cambodia have not named the country’s major hub in its role call of national assets likely to list.

  • Independent container operators can dramtically improve new terminal prospects
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    The case for independence

    2010-11-17T10:00:00Z

    It’s an old story but it is worth one reiterating that if a country has a single container terminal then it is a no brainer when it comes to deciding on the category of operator that should be awarded a concession under a privatisation initiative: independent container terminal operator every ...

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    Forming attachments

    2010-11-17T10:00:00Z

    Very specific handling requirements often call for dedicated FLT attachments, says Alex Hughes