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    2008-02-29T21:26:00Z

    Reliance Transport has discontinued business with 30% of its customer base, citing driver shortages, rising costs, and hassles with Ports of Auckland''s vehicle booking system and empty container yard location.

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    Ten JVs in Longkou

    2008-02-29T16:33:00Z

    The Chinese port of Longkou has increased throughput in the last five years from 6.2m tonnes to 25m tonnes. Ten private investment and corporative agreements have been reached with more than 10 shareholders in areas such as containers, liquid and dry bulk.

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    2008-02-28T21:26:00Z

    Port of Napier and the Maritime Union of New Zealand have agreed the port company will retain the services of International Stevedoring Operations while allowing shipping lines to also use alternative stevedores.

  • Port Strategy: HPH seals its Brisbane concession
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    Hutchison Moves INto Brisbane

    2008-02-27T21:26:00Z

    A formal agreement has been signed by Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) to lease two new container berths (Berths 11 and 12) from the Port of Brisbane Corporation (PBC).

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    2008-02-27T21:26:00Z

    Plans for an A$1bn (US$896m) ocean terminal at Townsville have moved closer with the release of an environmental impact statement. The development includes construction of a terminal with international-standard cruiseship facilities, and residential and marina precincts. Construction could begin this year and be complete in 2010.

  • Port Strategy: A growth in global containerised shipments has placed an increased burden on US security concerns
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    Container Security: Is it Feasible and Who Pays?

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    Former US Senator Warren Rudman''s recent concerns over port security should not be taken lightly given his history as co-chair of a bi-partisan committee assigned to investigate the threat of international terrorism after the September 11 attacks and his role in setting up the Department of Homeland Security.

  • Port Strategy: Reducing port-related truck traffic is a US priority
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    BARRY PARKER New initiatives in North American port funding

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    Politicians are coming at the US congestion crisis from a number of angles. But will there be a workable solution offered asks Barry Parker

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    Risk, Uncertainty and the Spectre of a Recession

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    The US ended 2007 with the spectre of a recession hanging over it while Asia and Europe were riding on a high, expecting 2008 to be another year of growth and prosperity. The financial crisis was working its effects on the markets and banks continued to face financial losses.

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    Africa

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    Ports across western and southern Africa are finally facing up to the reality of modernisation in order to function as effective cogs in what can be enormously long logistics chains, writes Alex Hughes

  • Port Strategy: Kalmar has secured a contract to maintain all of the rubber-tyred equipment operating at the Port of Durban's newest container facility, Pier 1 Container Terminal
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    Maputo

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    Maputo and Durban limber up for battle over lucrative southern African trade. Alex Hughes reports

  • Port Strategy: Ngqura, once fully operational, will take the pressure off Port Elizabeth
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    Transnet invests for the future

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    South Africa''s port controller Transnet has been pumping investment into a wide range of projects. Port Elizabeth, which can nowadays handle up to 500,000 teu annually, will soon be able to count on additional capacity at the neighbouring port of Ngqura, which serves the surrounding Coega industrial complex.

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    What price Maersk?

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    APM Terminals'' virtual monopoly of west African concessions - Apapa and Onne (Nigeria), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola) and Tema (Ghana) - has only been recently broken following the decision by Senegal to award DP World the container concession for Dakar.

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    Kaohsiung commitment

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    Evergreen Marine Corp (Taiwan) has extended its lease on its Container Terminal No 4 facility (Piers 115 and 116) in the Port of Kaohsiung for a further 10 years to February 2018.

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    Flexible dry bulk application

    2008-02-26T16:33:00Z

    A web-based application for dry bulk terminal management pledges to manage a dry bulk terminal "no matter what type or number of products, warehouses, activities or customers".

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    Kalmar Eastern coop

    2008-02-26T16:33:00Z

    Port equipment specialist Kalmar has confirmed an order from PSA Singapore Terminals for in excess of 200 terminal tractors to be delivered this year.

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    Guaymas build avoiding road

    2008-02-25T16:33:00Z

    Mexico''s Guaymas Port Authority in cooperation with its municipality is to invest $1.1m on building a new road that will divert heavy goods traffic from the port away from the city centre.

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    Isoloader lands scanning gig

    2008-02-25T12:24:00Z

    The US Department of Energy''s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has awarded a $23m contract to Detector Networks International (DNI) to design and manufacture six straddle carriers with radiation detection capabilities.

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    Euromax on autopilot

    2008-02-24T16:33:00Z

    Netherlands-based software provider TBA has successfully concluded the first phase of testing of Euromax terminal''s automated cargo handling equipment fleet. After the trial, TBA''s automated fleet management system TEAMS was able to remotely control the movement of the Euromax fleet of twenty-eight Automated Guided Vehicles.

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    Trinidad's iron grip

    2008-02-24T16:33:00Z

    Trinidad''s state-owned National Energy Corporation NEC has started construction of a $105m terminal to handle an estimated 4m tonnes of iron ore and 3m tonnes of hot bricketted iron (HBI) and other downstream products each year once it opens at the end of 2009. 

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    Indonesia urged to up marine investment

    2008-02-22T16:33:00Z

    The Indonesian Maritime Council has advised the government that its maritime sector could contribute $150bn to the country''s annual income if it is correctly developed. However, it has advised that this can only be achieved if there is a change of focus from land to sea.