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Busan dredging need confirmed
A feasibility study on dredging at Korea’ s Busan port has verified the need for deepening at selected berths at Shinsundae Container Terminal, Gamman Container Terminal, Shingamman and Jasungdae.
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Cang Viet Port to be rebuilt
Vinashin is to invest $93.8m to rebuild Cang Viet Port in Vietnam. This will allow it to handle 2m tonnes of cargo per year and receive vessels of up to 10,000 dwt.
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ICTSI secures Subic
ICTSI has won a Subic Bay container terminal concession after the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority declared that it had received no challenge to its bid contract by the deadline in June.
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Philippine x-ray vision
The customs authorities in the Philippines are to introduce 10 new x-ray scanners at eight ports. These have been approved by authorities in the US.
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Portek orders net S$5.3m
Equipment provider Portek has confirmed orders for container cranes, hardware installations and crane upgrades and repairs in Columbia (South America), Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia, in orders worth a total of S$5.3 million ($3.5m).
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Malaysia's Northport expands facilities
Port Klang’ s Northport has introduced a € 110m ($148.1m) expansion programme, which aims to boost container handling capacity, in addition to that of other cargoes. Investment will take place over the next three years, funding development of a new 350 metre long container berth, which will bring to 3,600 ...
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Singapore property price pull
Property prices in Singapore could make it difficult for authorities in that country to expand port facilities in the longer term, claim experts in Malaysia.
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Shanghai now number two
Shanghai has overtaken Hong Kong to become the second largest container port in the world.
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Japan funds Angolan rehab
Japan is to provide $65m to rehabilitate the Southern Angolan ports of Lobito and Namibe by 2010. According to Japanese consultants, Lobito needs $35m of upgrading work and Namibe $30m.
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NewsPTP positions itself for box dominance
The government of Malaysia is to rationalise traffic at the ports of Tanjung Pelepas and Johor. The former will henceforth concentrate purely on container traffic, while Johor will specialise in non-containerised cargo. Both are owned by MMC Corporation.
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Chinese capacity constraints
Chinese experts predict that by 2010 national ports will be handling 8bn tonnes of cargo annually and 170m teu. Existing capacity is for 5.6bn tonnes and 93m teu.
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TT Club speaks out on quayside accidents
Insurer TT Club has issued a strong recommendation that terminal operators fit quayside cranes with anti-collision devices to prevent incidents. Fitting electronic sensor devices to quay crane booms to prevent them accidentally colliding with ships during loading and unloading operations in port could put a stop to serious injuries to ...
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NewsGodfathers of ports
Felicity Landon asks whether the flurry of concessions and expansions being announced by the world’ s major port dons is sustainable
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PSA buys into Great Yarmouth
PSA has been named as an unexpected partner in Great Yarmouth’ s development plans.
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AMP'd up, Cavotec style
Viewed by many on the US west coast as the driver in greener solutions for powering ships in dock, Cavotec has developed three different types of its branded Alternative Maritime Supply (AMP) units. Ship-based systems, semi-fixed systems and shore-based systems offer a supply of electrical power to docked vessels, obviating ...
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NewsISPS an easy, but expensive, pill to swallow
The estimated global port-related cost of implementing the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code has been put at between $1.1bn and $2.3bn initially, with annual costs thereafter of between $400m and $900m, in a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
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FIRST SEA MOTORWAY CONTRACTS
The governments of Spain and France have issued the first tenders covering seven motorway services between ports on their Atlantic and northern coasts. These are expected to enter into service in 2008 and attract a subsidy of € 15m ($20.3m) per service from the Spanish state, while France has put ...
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BEJAÏA INVESTS
Bejaïa Mediterranean Terminal, a joint-venture between Enterprise Portuaire de Bejaïa and Singapore’ s Portek International, will invest $20.2m in upgrading the container terminal it manages in the port of Bejaïa.
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MOTA-ENGIL ACQUISITION
Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil has acquired port terminal operator Multiterminal for € 25m ($33.8m).
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HASKONING STRENGTHENS SERVICES
Specialist consultant Royal Haskoning has purchased UK transport consultant Denis Wilson Partnership in a bid to take its operations “ beyond the waters’ edge” .The marriage will bring Denis Wilson’ s expertise in inland logistics and transport planning to Haskoning clients,offering what the company claims will be a “ one-stop ...
