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  • 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.

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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: 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".

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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.

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    Tyne to rise to 2009 challenge

    2009-06-26T12:24:00Z

    The UK Port of Tyne anticipates a “much more difficult trading period” in 2009, in line with the downturn affecting its customers.

  • 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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    Liebherr adds to ABP base

    2009-06-26T12:24:00Z

    Liebherr has delivered two rubber-tyred gantry cranes to Associated British Ports'' Grimsby and Immingham ports, bringing the total number of Liebherr RTGs now operating at the facility up to four.

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    Rates fight dealt another blow

    2009-06-25T12:24:00Z

    The fight against crippling backdated rates bill for UK port tenants may have hit a stumbling block - one put there by the nation''s House of Commons, writes Stevie Knight

  • Port Strategy: Able has ambitious plans for its Humber base
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    Hinterland project for Humber

    2009-06-25T12:24:00Z

    Plans for what will be one of the biggest port related developments in the UK -- covering almost 1,500 acres on the South Bank of the Humber -- have been submitted to North Lincolnshire Council.

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    Moin bids must hit high

    2009-06-25T12:24:00Z

    A tender has been released for a new Greenfield container terminal at Costa Rican''s port of Moin, sister to the Caribbean port of Limon.

  • Port Strategy: Queensland premier Anna Bligh looking to raise cash from port sales. Credit: David Jackmanson
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    Queensland ports up for grabs in mass asset sell off

    2009-06-25T12:24:00Z

    Queensland is to tackle a drop in its credit ratings by conducting a huge sale of infrastructural assets including the Port of Brisbane Corp and Abbot Point Coal Terminal. Other assets with the "for sale" sign include the state''s rail coal business.

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    PORT STRATEGIST

    2009-06-24T12:24:00Z

    If you live in the UK then you would have ''enjoyed'' a feast of controversy on the political scene of late as the expenses of Members of Parliament were unveiled for the first time in the media.

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    Montreal favours Moffatt & Nichol

    2009-06-24T12:24:00Z

    Consultant Moffatt & Nichol has won a contract to prepare a detailed development plan, complete preliminary engineering and develop contracting strategies for the construction of the new Hochelaga-Viau container terminal, and re-development of the Laurier-Tarte break-bulk terminal at the Port of Montreal.