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NewsLife after feedering
Black Sea ports are following Constantza’ s lead to take on a transhipment role in the region.Alex Hughes reports
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NewsRussian roulette
Slow investment at the country’ s leading seaport has allowed competing ports to leap-frog Novorossiysk, as Alex Hughes explains
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Odessa celebrates leap in throughput
The container terminal at the Novorossiysk’ s neighbouring port of Odessa, which is run by a subsidiary of Hamburg Port Consulting, handled 395,563 teu in 2006 compared with 279,812 teu the year before. This 41% increase, notes public relations deputy general director Svetlana Yarovaya, can be attributed to a number ...
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NewsNew beginning
Ecuador’ s main port gateway, Guayaquil, is about to harness significant foreign investment and expertise from international terminal operator ICTSI.Mike Mundy reports July 1 this year will usher in a new era in port operation and development in the world’ s most prolific banana producer, Ecuador.
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ICTSI ready to ring the changes at Guayaquil
Alex Villacres Sanchez, president of the Directorate of the Port Authority of Guayaquil, explains that under the terms of its concession agreement ICTSI will invest $168m in the port in the first five years of its 20-year concession. Key features of this investment will include:
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NewsSECCONDD chance for seals
The next generation of standardised container seals is already in the offing, Felicity Landon reports
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Electronic seals here to stay
Electronic seals for containers are the way of the future and there is no way back, says Frans Jol, spokesman for the SMDG group.
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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 ...
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HEROD FOR MOFFATT
Ex-Associated British Ports’ executive David Herod has joined the London team of consultant Moffat & Nichol.
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SPANISH RTG BOOST
Grupo Boluda Corporacion Maritima confirmed an order for eight rubber-tyred gantry (RTGs) cranes, while Dragados ordered a further six RTGs from Konecranes.
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Box traffic to hit 1bn by 2020
Andrew Penfold, director of Ocean Shipping Consultants, anticipates that total container traffic will hit 1bn teu by 2020, building on last year’ s total of 426m teu and 2015 estimates of 600m teu.
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Rotterdam on the slab with ThyssenKrupp deal
Steel specialist ThyssenKrupp Steel has announced that it will favour Rotterdam when it expands its manufacturing capacities around the world.
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NewsAutomation the key for Euromax
ECT Euromax Terminal, currently under construction at Rotterdam, has taken delivery of 12 automated rail mounted gantry (ARTGs) cranes to work the stacking lanes at the terminal.
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Babcock & Brown plans investment fund
Australian finance group Babcock & Brown is reported to be seeking to raise up to € 2bn ($2.7bn) to feather a new European investment fund for the future financing of ports and freight transport speculations.
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NewsMarseilles takes the long view
In an attempt to put crippling strike action earlier this year behind it, Marseilles has announced a string of investments to secure its future growth.
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NewsPort workers need never be alone
The UK’ s Argyll Telecom has launched a waterproof device for mobile personnel monitoring allowing easy pinpointing of workers in an emergency. The MaxCare device, which can be worn on the arm, leg, shoulder, waist or sewn into an item of clothing, combines mobile phone and satellite location monitoring technology.
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Congestion stunts liner reliability
Port congestion is being blamed for the massive failure of liner ships to meet their scheduled berthing slot this year.
