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Tauranga ups ante in merger talks
Port of Tauranga chairperson John Parker has cast doubt over the proposed merger with Ports of Auckland, following a comment the two ports will this month need to discuss "whether or not, and how" the merger progresses.
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NewsCustoms extends x-raying hours
Increasing demand has seen the New Zealand Customs Service expand its sea container x-raying service at Ports of Auckland from a five-day to a six-day-aweek operation.
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PRIVATISATION SPEEDS UP
Authorities in the ports of Guayquil and Puerto Bolívar have until June 30, 2007 to transfer existing terminal operations to private-sector companies.
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BARRANQUILLA TO INVEST
The Colombian port of Barranquilla needs to invest $60m in improving facilities in order to handle 10m tonnes of cargo in 2007.However, concessionaire SPRB has only six years left to run on its contract with the government and is therefore seeking an extension to justify such a large outlay. A ...
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MANTA HANDOVER COMPLETE
Hutchison Port Holdings has handed over the Ecuadorian Port of Manta to Terminales Internacionales del Ecuador (Tide),marking the start of a 30-year concession.The original agreement, which had seen the transfer taking place on January 1, 2007, was put back by one month on the back of paperwork difficulties.
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Colombian/Venezuelan ports link floated
The National Highways Institute of Colombia (Invías) has been given the go-ahead to implement a $103m highway and port project,which aims to link Pacific coast ports to Venezuela''s Atlantic coast. The project encompasses improving the navigability of river access and also building new roads.
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Bromma boosts South America business
The main access will be between Buenaventura and Puerto Lopez on the Meta River, from where there will be improved access to Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela. "We are delighted with the many successful partnerships we continue to develop with container terminals in Latin America, Mexico, and the Caribbean" said Lars ...
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Ecuadorians fear competition from outsiders
Small port terminal operators in Ecuador are somewhat worried by the emergence of major port development projects, such as Manta and Posorja.
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US PURCHASE FOR KALMAR
Kalmar has acquired American service company Port Equipment Service to "strengthen its position in US ports".The deal, sealed at an undisclosed sum, will see the founders of PES, Dan Stevens and Tom McDonough, continuing to run the existing intermodal and port service business,while the entire Port Equipment Service operation will ...
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Scanning partnership to improve security
Container radiation scanning specialist VeriTainer and shipping optical character recognition developer APS Technology have teamed up to offer high-tech box identification at ports.
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NewsLibra moots Santos investment increase
The Libra Group, Brazil''s leading port container operator, is looking to invest $12m in Terminal 37 at the port of Santos, which would also involve the acquisition of two quayside gantry cranes, each of which would cost $6m. In 2006, Libra ploughed $23m into the terminal in the form of ...
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Port wants to keep short sea discounts
Santos Port Authority (Codesp) has asked the Port Authority Council (CAP) to be allowed to keep offering 50% discounts for transhipment and cabotage traffic in the port for at least a further six months.
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NewsStar Performer
With traffic across East Africa and the Indian Ocean continuing to grow,Mombasa is taking its future role seriously, as Alex Hughes finds out
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The privatisation quandary
Privatisation of Mombasa Container Terminal has been under discussion for a long time and while no time frame has been set as yet, a committee comprising officials from both the government and port authority is looking into this issue.
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NewsDry bulk bonanza
A slight dip in 2006 throughput should prove no hurdle to growth in 2007 at Africa''s key ports. Alex Hughes reports
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Mozambique's Beira has grand aspirations that could knock Durban off its direct call perch
A planned dredging programme is integral to the future success of the Mozambican port of Beira to push it into the direct call league. This modest African box handling facility - in comparison with Richards Bay - lies 20km from the open sea.
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NewsFeeder king
Port Louis continues to draw in the main shipping players, but it is not complacent as Alex Hughes finds out
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NewsA tale of two deltas
The Pearl river delta led the way in China''s capitalist drive,now it faces overcapacity and overtaking by its Yangtze cousin. Wing Kah-goh investigates
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Hibiki shake-up
Illustrative of the general decline of Japanese ports, news reaches Port Strategy of severe discontent at the nation''s very first private port initiative.
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Kaohsiung throws good money after bad
At Taiwan''s premier port of Kaohsiung there is a bunker mentality setting in which threatens to waste taxpayers money on an extraordinary level. Fact: Taiwan is not the manufacturing centre it once was.Fact:China is,thanks in part to Taiwanese industries relocating. Seven years ago,Kaohsiung was the third largest boxport in the ...
