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NewsINVESTING WHERE IT MAKES SENSE
Hamburg-Bremerhaven joint venture Eurogate will reach its target of 11.7mTEUs this year and remain focused on Europe, with no plans to go global. It will also continue a strategy for success which has seen its handling nearly double inside just six years. Eurogate Board chairman Emanuel Schiffer spoke to Tom ...
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NewsBIG CRANE BONANZA
The global demand for outsized ship-to-shore container gantry cranes is still growing apace, with another record delivery due in 2004 and substantial orders already placed for 2005 completion. Andrew Foxcroft reports.
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NewsNEW STANDARD ON ITS WAY
A new design code for the design of ro-ro ramps, linkspans and walkways - British Standard 6349 Part 8 - is due to be published early next year, enabling ro-ro infrastructure to be planned, designed and built to an acceptable common set of rules, as explains.
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NewsROSAFE UPS THE STANDARD
As highlighted above, although accidents have been relatively rare, passenger safety is of interest to everyone in the industry, and, with this in mind, a new safety device for ferry linkspans has been produced jointly by Royal Haskoning and Bosch Rexroth.
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LRIT - FOR EXISTING EQUIPMENT BY 2006
Kim Fisher, Head of Navigation & Communications at the Maritime & Coast Guard Agency (MCA) says LRIT has been under discussion at the IMO for some time as part of an ongoing review of security requirements under the ISPS Code.
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NewsFROM QUAY TO QUAY LRIT ADDS NEW LAYERS TO PORT SECURITY
With Vessel Traffic Systems (VTS) and Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) already playing an increasingly important role in port security, Long Range International Tracking (LRIT) of vessel movements could provide an additional layer of security, from well outside the confines of a port. David Foxwell investigates.
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NewsLIFE CYCLE COSTS DRIVE INVESTMENT DECISIONS
Alex Hughes talks to two of New Zealand''s leading forest products companies about their approach to equipment procurement, performance and ROI considerations.
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OPERATIONAL/STRATEGIC BENEFITS FACTORED INTO ROI
Pan Pac''s fibre supply manager Phil Hardie notes that the initial ROI on equipment purchases was calculated on the basis of both the overall price and previous exchange rate movements, although investment was expected to be recouped within ten years.
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Cosco buys into Antwerp Gateway
COSCO Pacific Limited is buying a 25% shareholding in P& O Ports'' new container terminal, Antwerp Gateway.
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LE HAVRE SIGNS FIRST NEW BOX TERMINAL CONCESSION
Rotterdam's container movements jumped by more than 12% to 9.3m TEUs whilst Antwerp registered 6.5m TEUs up nearly 7% on the previous year.Le Havre port authority and stevedores Generale de Manutention Portuaire (GMP) have signed the first concession agreement covering the initial stage of the Port 2000 development. GMP will ...
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NewsBCT clinches US$36m loan
Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in Gdynia has concluded arrangements with Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG (BA-CA) and Bank BPH (BPH), both members of the HVB Group, for a US$36m term loan facility to be used in conjunction with the initial phases of BCT''s capacity expansion programme. The loan facility will help ...
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SETUBAL AWARDS MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL CONCESSION
Germany's DVD Bank is also participating in the transaction in syndication.Portugal's Setubal and Sesimbra port authority and the Tersado and Sadaport companies have signed concession contracts covering zones one and two of the Setubal Multi-Purpose Terminal. The operating companies are controlled by a consortium consisting of Setefrete, Mota-Engil and Empresa ...
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NewsAdsteam rolls out 3-man crewing
Harbour towage contractor Adsteam UK has completed the first phase of its national roll-out of 3-person crewing, agreed with the UK''s Transport & General Workers Union. Operations at Liverpool, Southampton, Medway, Hull and Felixstowe have now implemented the new working system.
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NewsNew deepwater berth
British MP Gwyneth Dunwoody has opened a new deepwater berth at Felixstowe''s Trinity container terminal, Trinity lll.2.
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NEW HAZ-MAT TERMINAL IN GERMANY
Chemion Logistik has inaugurated a new container terminal at Bayer Chemiepark in the city of Leverkusen.
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MERSEY DOCKS IN £1BN TAKEOVER APPROACH
CVC Capital Partners, the private equity house, has made an approach to Mersey Docks and Harbour Company which could result in a £ 1billion takeover of the Liverpool-based ports group. Mersey Docks was forced by the Takeover Panel to reveal that it had received a " preliminary approach" from an ...
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New deal at Fos Distriport
Half the available plots at Fos Distriport - the Port of Marseilles'' logistics zone being developed alongside the existing Fos container terminal - have now been taken following the sale of 9.5 hectares for the construction of a 47,000 square metre warehouse due to open in 2006.
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BOULOGNE AT AXIS OF NEW HIGH SPEED SHORTSEA RO-RO SERVICE
Boulogne is to launch a high-speed freight service connecting it north and south to Oslo and Vigo.
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NewsMarseilles approves Fos 2XL terms with MSC
The Port of Marseilles Authority (PMA) has approved the terms of the agreement under which MSC is to operate one of two new facilities within the port''s Fos 2XL container terminal development. The MSC concession covers 700 metres of quay and 54 ha shoreside.
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CCTL ORDERED TO REIMBURSE USERS
India''s Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) has directed Chennai Container Terminal Ltd to reimburse all special service request charges it levied on containers stored in its stacking yard during the strike earlier this year.
