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HPH wins Salonika
Thessaloniki Port Authority has approved the decision made by its valuation committee to award a concession to Hutchison Port Holdings to operate the container terminal at the port of Salonika.
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Cape Town to get Kalmar RTGs
South Africa''s largest stevedore company, Transnet, has committed to an order of 32 E-One+ rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Kalmar. The 1-over-5 high and 1+6 wide units - scheduled for delivery starting in June 2009 with the final cranes arriving by November 2010 - have been earmarked for the expansion of ...
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Congestion follows Auckland consolidation
Two-hour truck turnarounds have been reported during peak service periods at Ports of Auckland following the recent consolidation of container operations on to the Fergusson Terminal.
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The Insurer September
Winning and losing are words that are best avoided in the nuanced world of ports and terminals insurance.
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Mazoram waterway pact
The foreign minister of Burma''s visit to New Delhi in January this year paved the way for the long awaited signing of a $100m project on the river Kaladan that will provide a transit route to India''s north-eastern states.
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NewsRoro terminals spread across India
India's ports are looking to build dedicated terminals for ships that ferry cars and roll-on roll-off vessels to cater to the increasing demand for export of cars, as Wing Kah-goh discovers
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Double bubble at Brazilian ports
LLX Logí stica (LLXL3), logistics arm of Brazil''s EBX group, plans to double the capacity of Sudeste port to 50m tonnes and Aç u port to 100m tonnes by 2012, LLX chief executive Ricardo Antunes has said.
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NewsOpinion piece: impact of Tanger Med on Spain
Spain''s ports are having to seriously re-think long term strategic goals in the light of Morocco''s Tanger Med success. Alex Hughes investigates
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NewsTough nut to crack
Wing Kah-goh finds investment conditions on the ground in south Asia still hard to fathom
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Black Sea strength for APM
APM has begun development of a container terminal at the Ukrainian Port of Illichivsk.
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Dighi Port concession
Dighi Port Ltd has entered into an agreement with the Maharashtra Maritime Board, State Government of Maharashtra, to run a 50-year development and operations concession at the port near Mumbai.
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Space saving forklifts
As yard space becomes an increasing problem, careful forklift truck selection to optimise yard space should be a growing concern on dock.
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Damascus terminal 'ready for brisk business'
Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Ottari of Syria has officially inaugurated the Tartous International Container Terminal (TICT), Syria''s newest international trading gateway nearest to the country''s capital Damascus. The terminal is "ready for brisk business", according to Budhadev Majumdar, TICT general manager.
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Environmental coal yard for Port Pipavav
An environmental coal yard claiming to be "the only one of its kind" in the Indian sub-continent has been commissioned by Port Pipavav, Gujarat.
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One-stop for port equipment
Terminal and ro-ro tractors will now be distributed by a joint partnership between Cooper Specialised and MAFI, the manufacturer of in-plant transport systems.
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Russian market for Spanish engineer
Spanish company Fabrisem SL has broken into the Russian/CIS market with a contract for 17 trailers for National Container Company. Twelve trailers will be delivered to First Container Terminal in St Petersburg with the other five being delivered to the off-dock container terminal in Shushary, 20 km away.
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NewsReefer article
With lines increasingly seeking cold chain solutions around the world, ports are today under pressure to deliver reefer capacity. Alex Hughes reports
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Reefer
The Garden City container terminal at the Port of Savannah, administered by Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), first introduced fixed, direct-wired reefer plugs in the 1970s, but in recent years has had to bring in diesel-powered gensets to provide reefer power because of an overall shortage of fixed installations.
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NewsThird terminal for Algeciras Bay
Hanjin Shipping subsidiary Total Terminal International Algeciras is going to build and run what is set to be the third container terminal at the Port of Algeciras Bay.
