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    APM TO INVEST IN APAPA

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    Finance is being jointly provided by the national government and Dersko Marine Limited as part of a public-private partnership.

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    BOSKALIS WINS LNG CONTRACT

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    Dredging company Royal Boskalis has secured a contract for the construction of an export terminal for liquefied natural gas in Soyo, Angola.The contract, worth $390m, involves creating new land at sea as well as dredging an access channel.

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    MADAGASCAR BOOSTS HANDLING POWER

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    ICTSI subsidiary,Madagascar International Container Terminal Services,has commissioned a new Gottwald heavy duty mobile crane at its Toamasina container terminal to increase handling power and berth coverage.

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    KONE NETS AFRICAN ORDERS

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    Konecranes has confirmed reachstacker orders from three African port operators. Six units will be supplied to the Namibian Port Authorities, three to Kenya Ports Authority and four to Ghana''s Meridian Ports Services. The total value of the three orders is approximately $7.1m.

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    Third Jeddah box terminal confirmed

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    The Saudi Trade & Export Development Company (Tusdeer) and Seaport Terminal of Malaysia, which helped established the successful transhipment port of Tanjung Pelepas, have signed a joint venture agreement to develop a third container terminal at Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP).The Malaysian company will hold a 20% stake in the project. ...

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    New grain and fertiliser terminal at Djibouti

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    A new grain and fertiliser terminal was inaugurated at Djibouti at the end of 2006 following the award by Compagnie Djiboutienne de Gestion du Terminal Vraquier of a contract to Vigan SA in Belgium as prime contractor for the delivery of the equipment for the terminal.

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    OICT inaugurates Sohar expansion

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    At the end of January, Oman International Container Terminal inaugurated Phase 1 of its Terminal B expansion at the port of Sohar.

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    PRIVATISATION SPEEDS UP

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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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    Libra moots Santos investment increase

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    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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    Future-proofing

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    The trick is to design a low cost terminal with an early start-up,which is ready for future expansion, as Felicity Landon finds out

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    Stacking high

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    How high to stack? Many rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) yards stack one over five and there is talk of one over six becoming more commonplace, says Royal Haskoning''s Jonathan Tyler.

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    Crowning glory

    2007-03-01T16:26:00Z

    A glistening future beckons as Shanghai proves its dominance in the port world. Wing Kah-goh reports