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    Securing the bottom line

    2009-02-25T12:24:00Z

    Australia''s Newcastle coal port is looking at riding the downturn by an investment strategy which could potentially double the ports capacity.

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    ZIM switches transhipment to Tarragona

    2009-02-25T12:24:00Z

    Zim has moved its western Mediterranean hub from the port of Barcelona to Tarragona, where it has a 40% equity participation in the Contarsa box handling facility.

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    Santos box terminals hiring

    2009-02-25T12:24:00Z

    The four container terminals in the Brazilian port of Santos are to take on 300 additional employees this year. Santos-Brazil will contract 72 labourers and Tecondi 70, the rest will be divided between Libra and Rodrimar.

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    Long-term plans in Brazil

    2009-02-24T12:24:00Z

    The axe may have fallen on some areas of Brazil''s production, but a $300m deal that includes Caribbean port interests as well as two coal mines was concluded in December by Vale.

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    SECH and VTE share swap scandal

    2009-02-24T12:24:00Z

    The president of Genova port authority, Luigi Merlo, has had his knuckles rapped by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport over an interchange of shares between the port''s two container terminal operators, VTE and SECH.

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    Coal - can it warm a cool economy?

    2009-02-23T12:24:00Z

    Can coal bring a much needed fillip to stagnating bulk ports? Stevie Knight finds out

  • Port Strategy: A new collective bargaining agreement is being thrashed out in the Spanish port. Credit: IAPH
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    New collective bargaining agreement in Valencia

    2009-02-23T12:24:00Z

    Port unions in Valencia are currently renegotiating their new collective bargaining agreement, to replace the agreement introduced in 1995.

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    ZIM abandons Indian consortium

    2009-02-22T12:24:00Z

    Israeli shipping line Zim has pulled out of the group building the container terminal project at Ennore in India.

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    EC calls for third short sea funding proposals

    2009-02-22T12:24:00Z

    The European Commission (EC) has published its third call for proposals for freight transport services under its second Marco Polo programme.

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    Liscont concession extension legal

    2009-02-21T12:24:00Z

    Portugal''s Office of Port and Maritime Transport has found that the extension granted to Liscont for the concession of its container terminal in the port of Lisbon is not anti-competitive. Given particular examination was the fact that majority shareholder Mota-Engil (82.95%) also has interests in other terminals in the port.

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    Pollution - the big clean up

    2009-02-20T12:24:00Z

    Port pollution control has taken on a life of its own, as Stevie Knight finds out

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    An individual perspective

    2009-02-20T12:24:00Z

    David Jacobs of CWA has a very  personal view  of pollution issues. A ship''s master for many years, he is now a senior consultant and acts as arbitration for various maritime pollution cases.

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    Naples operators back port revival

    2009-02-20T12:24:00Z

    Operators at the port of Naples recently got together with representatives of the port authority and the Transport Department of the regional government to discuss ways of tackling future challenges at the port.

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    Lines in Vietnam JV

    2009-02-19T12:24:00Z

    Mitsui OSK Lines, Hanjin Shipping and Wan Hai Lines have sealed a joint venture deal with Vietnam''s Saigon Newport Company. The joint terminal will be located in Vietnam''s Cai Mep region and is anticipated to start operations in 2011.

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    Kalmar

    2009-02-19T12:24:00Z

    Maximum stacking heights depend on the type of operation, says Jari Pirhonen, general manager, terminal development, at Kalmar.

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    Puget Sound ports go cleaner

    2009-02-19T12:24:00Z

    The Puget Sound''s air quality has just got another boost. The Ports of Seattle, Tacoma and PSCAA put in match funding to complement an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), grant of over $300,000.

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    Virginia PA retrofits exhausts

    2009-02-19T12:24:00Z

    Virginia Port Authority''s (VPA) "Green Operators" (GO) programme  have got   the Evans Network on board its initiative by offering to retrofit  the independent contractors'' trucks serving the ports.

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    Beira dredge tender

    2009-02-18T12:24:00Z

    The Port of Beira has issued a tender for emergency dredging of its access channel. All bids for the 8m cu m dredge must be received by April 15.

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    PS PAGE

    2009-02-18T12:24:00Z

    The world''s big canals - the Suez and Panama canals - are increasingly getting the attention of the world''s shipping interests.

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    Two more Chinese ports join box top ten

    2009-02-18T12:24:00Z

    The Chinese port of Guangzhou has overtaken Rotterdam and Kaohsiung to become the world''s seventh largest container port.