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  • Port Strategy: In Gothenburg, FLTs are already equipped with catalytic converters and particle filters
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    FLTs Andy Andrews

    2009-10-30T12:24:00Z

    On the green side, fork-lift truck technology is moving on apace.

  • Port Strategy: Santos needs urgent investment
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    Santos needs $5bn investment

    2009-10-30T12:24:00Z

    The port of Santos needs investment of $5bn to prevent capacity restraints stifling economic growth, a recent study has concluded.

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    Antwerp applauds invoking of deepening treaty

    2009-10-30T12:24:00Z

    The Dutch government has implemented a treaty on deepening the Scheldt estuary, a move supported by Antwerp Port Authority.

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    Box terminal projections face heavy scrutiny

    2009-10-30T12:24:00Z

    The ''build it and they will come'' attitude for container terminals is out, according to Romain Py, senior partner, JP Morgan Asset Management-Infrastructure Investments.

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    Banks open for limited port business

    2009-10-30T12:24:00Z

    Banks offering finance to ports are "open for business", according to DnB NOR Bank, but "opening hours are limited".

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    UK government urged to act now to protect port assets

    2009-10-30T12:24:00Z

    UK port executives have urged the government to start supporting the port industry, or risk losing out on business to mainland Europe.

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    FLTs

    2009-10-29T12:24:00Z

    Fork lift trucks are being confined to an ever smaller pool of duties, operators confide in Alex Hughes

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    Yangshan now biggest port in the world

    2009-10-29T12:24:00Z

    China claims that the new Shanghai Yangshan port that entered operations this autumn is the world''s largest in terms of container handling. Construction began in 2002 and culminated in the building of 16 berths along 5.6 km of coast. Capacity will be in the region of 10m teu.

  • Port Strategy: APM Terminals has already invested about $62m in equipment
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    KBSP: all part of the Master Plan

    2009-10-28T12:24:00Z

    The opening of the Bahrain Gateway is not to the detriment of Mina Salman, as Patrik Wheater finds out

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    PS PAGE COPY

    2009-10-28T12:24:00Z

    The Black Sea, the so-called ''inland sea'' bordered by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus, is one of the areas of the world most negatively impacted by the recent economic downturn. But longer term this is a region that offers significant potential for container shipping and terminal operations.

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    Gulftainer invests in the future

    2009-10-28T12:24:00Z

    United Arab Emirates-based Gulftainer is optimistic that throughput at its Sharjah Container Terminal "may show some growth" this year in defiance of the global downturn.

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    Port of Gijon wins first ESPO award

    2009-10-28T09:17:00Z

    European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani handed out the first Gijón. The Award, a wooden work of art designed by the Belgian artist Francois Schuiten, was given during a festive ceremony held at the Brussels Town Hall yesterday evening.

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    AAPA Annual Awards Program

    2009-10-28T09:14:00Z

    28 October...The seventh annual facilities engineering awards - a salute to exemplary port programs and best practices – took place during the 98th AAPA Convention in Galveston.

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    Throughput boost for Syria's TICT

    2009-10-27T12:24:00Z

    Syria''s Tartous International Container Terminal (TICT) recorded a 44% increase in container throughput during the first six months of the year over the same period in 2008 and is gearing up for a further increase in volume and vessel calls over the coming months, according to Romeo Salvador, TICT general ...

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    Danes asked to fund Vietnamese ports

    2009-10-27T12:24:00Z

    The Vietnamese prime minister on a visit to Denmark asked the Danish Premier for financial aid to develop seaports. This follows the inauguration of a new Maersk service linking Vietnam to US Pacific ports.

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    By-passing the Gulf

    2009-10-26T12:24:00Z

    Are port infrastructure development projects aimed at placing Saudi Arabia as the transhipment hub of the Middle East? Patrik Wheater reports

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    Cargill terminal tender issued

    2009-10-26T12:24:00Z

    The Dockworkers Company of the State of Sã o Paulo (Codesp) has issued a tender for the bulk solids terminal formally managed by Cargill, whose own contract expired in 2005, but was temporarily extended for four years. A new award is expected to be made by early November at the ...

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    3i eyes third port project in India

    2009-10-26T12:24:00Z

    The London-based private-equity investor, 3i Group Plc, which has amassed a $1.2bn infrastructure fund for India, has announced it is seeking a third investment opportunity in the country.

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    Chittagong corruption commission

    2009-10-25T12:24:00Z

    Bangladesh''s Anti-Corruption Commission has appointed a three-person team to look into corruption allegations at the port of Chittagong. The decision was prompted by a request from the Shipping Ministry.

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    Bromma adopts "open standards" approach

    2009-10-24T12:24:00Z

    Bromma says it is growing the functionality of its SCS3 spreader communications and control technology, while at the same time adopting an "open standards" approach to communications and control architecture.