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  • Port Strategy: Iron ore exports from Australia's Pilbara region are expected to exceed the capacities of existing ports, including Dampier (pictured), within a decade. Credit: Sean Mack
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    Striking congestion while the iron's hot

    2009-07-09T12:24:00Z

    China''s revived ore interest is hitting ports hard, but there are ways to beat the queues, explains Patrik Wheater

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    Australasian feature -- Port Melbourne Profile

    2009-07-08T12:24:00Z

    As guardian of the land/sea interface, Melbourne takes its role in maritime trade seriously. Iain MacIntyre reports

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    Barry Parker Opinion submission May 5 2009

    2009-07-08T12:24:00Z

    It usually takes an oil spill, collision or, lately, a pirate attack, for maritime stories to make the front pages of newspaper, or the top of the hour on prime time TV news.

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    Liebherr in Olympics

    2009-07-08T12:24:00Z

    Liebherr is playing an important role in the 2014 Winter Olympics to be hosted in Sochi, Russia.

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    Finding the elusive alternative revenue stream

    2009-07-08T12:24:00Z

    While there is no ''quick fix'' from the stimulus packages, there is considerable scope for "new initiatives" as some governments are keen to support innovative technologies and new sources of energy to modernise infrastructure.

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    Prescott Lock opens

    2009-07-08T12:24:00Z

    The new Prescott Lock, which gives barges of up to 350 tons direct access via the Thames and Bow Back Rivers to the UK''s London Olympics site at Stratford, has opened.

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    Southampton hosts futures debate

    2009-07-08T12:24:00Z

    Southampton Port is to play host to the UK''s annual Port City Futures Convention on July 13.

  • Port Strategy: While Barack Obama's US stimulus package appears more highly developed and transparent than other packages, the finer details are still being approved
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    Can ports and terminals benefit from government stimulus packages?

    2009-07-07T12:24:00Z

    Can ports and terminals really benefit from government stimulus packages? Mark Wandless and Cé cile Schlub find out

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    New releases heighten productivity

    2009-07-06T12:24:00Z

    Kalmar straddle carriers continue to develop an environmental focus, with the latest addition being an Electrical Shuttle Carrier, ESH W, which combines higher productivity with lower emissions.

  • Port Strategy: New Zealand's ports, such as Tauranga, need to take a commercial view of business
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    NZ port sector requires government "nudge"

    2009-07-06T12:24:00Z

    Port of Tauranga chairperson John Parker believes a "nudge or two" from Government is required to encourage councils to take a commercial view of their dominant port sector shareholdings.

  • Port Strategy: Large scale coal port developments, such as those at Hay Point, are continuing a pace
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    Aussie port development reaches astounding levels

    2009-07-03T12:24:00Z

    The level of port development underway or planned in Australia is astounding. Major coal port expansions are in progress at Newcastle, Hay Point/Dalrymple Bay, Gladstone and Abbot Point and at least two new coal ports are in contemplation in Queensland.

  • Port Strategy:Sydney's Port Botany suffers from landside congestion
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    Australian landside links under the microscope

    2009-07-02T12:24:00Z

    After almost two decades of intense scrutiny of the performance of its container terminals, Australia is turning in new directions - to the landside links in the logistics chain, and to measurement of the efficiency or otherwise of its bulk ports.

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    PS PAGE

    2009-07-01T12:24:00Z

    When will the fall off in trade, slow, stop and then start to recover - whatever market sector your in this is the big issue that everyone is thinking about. So do we see green shoots yet in the container sector?

  • Port Strategy: BBI is set to offload Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal to stem losses
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    Aus-NZ Feature Material from Dave Mac

    2009-07-01T12:24:00Z

    The global meltdown has pushed many New Zealand and Australian port operators into survival mode. Dave and Iain MacIntyre report

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    Rational thinking

    2009-06-30T12:24:00Z

    Port executives gathered at TOC''s annual European conference in Bremen this month called for rational thinking in this time of crisis.

  • Port Strategy: Drewry's Neil Davidson is downbeat on container port outlook
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    'Worst year ever' for box port growth

    2009-06-30T12:24:00Z

    Neil Davidson, director ports, Drewry Shipping Consultants, pulled no punches at TOC Europe when he told delegates the days of 20x Ebitda port valuations are over.

  • Port Strategy: Valenciaport chairman Rafael Aznar has taken on the chairmanship of the GIL's Port Cluster Governance Council
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    Global institute launches port cluster council

    2009-06-30T12:24:00Z

    The Global Institute of Logistics (GIL) has launched a Port Cluster Governance Council to drive best practice at public-private partnership ports around the world.

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    'Cross roads' for NZ

    2009-06-30T12:24:00Z

    Jens Madsen, managing director of New Zealand''s Ports of Auckland, has described the country as "at a cross-roads", warning that if it does not rise above a ''parochial'' mentality it could end up as a "spoke to Australia, rather than a hub of its own".

  • Port Strategy: "I remain optimistic about APM Terminals ability to continue to deliver results in 2009 and the years ahead," Kim Fejfer, APM Terminals
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    APM Terminals finding the formula for success

    2009-06-26T12:24:00Z

    International port operating expert APM Terminals tells Ben Hackett you should have a plan and stick to it

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    Assets ripe for the picking

    2009-06-26T12:24:00Z

    Port Fund principal Ghislain Lorthiois has advised would-be ports'' investors to "revise their ways of asset valuations" if they want to secure future profitability.