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NewsBelle of the ball
India offers great potential for investors but are ports still waiting for their Prince to come as delays dog privatisation efforts? S.N. Srikanth investigates
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Medway's Ridham ready
The Medway port of Ridham is also getting ready to meet Olympics-related demand and reporting busy times already.
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Supply stream for London
As well as construction materials, there is a big push to make sure that London is seen as the delivery port for anything that needs to be imported for the Olympics, says PLA chief executive Richard Everitt.
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Metoc dredging services
Environmental consultancy company Metoc has launched a range of environmental engineering services for the dredging of marine aggregates from the UK Continental Shelf to meet demand from major developments in the South East, including the London Olympics. It is offering marine environmental impact assessment, support for licence applications for extraction, ...
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H20 vital for Heathrow
Water proved a vital element in serving the Heathrow Terminal 5 construction site. Aggregates were transported to the site via the waterways and this was a project in which the River Medway also played an important part; Mittal Kent Wire at its Chatham Docks terminal handled the import of 70,000 ...
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Lion City port losing its roar
Singapore has held on to the top box port crown for two years running, but can it hold off rival Hong Kong for a third? Peter Trevalyn thinks not
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Seaway offers alternative outlet
Grain volumes shipped via the St Lawrence Seaway rose 25.5% in the first quarter ended June 30 to 3.36m tonnes, according to Richard Corfe, chief executive and president of the St Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation.
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NewsBeating hurricane hangovers
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused unprecedented human and financial damage along the Gulf coast of the US last year. As this year''s season gets underway, Michael King examines how the grain ports are gearing up for this season''s onslaught
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NewsCautious curiosity
Questions are being asked, but many ports are still not serious about building facilities to support automation, reports David Foxwell
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NewsIn-built intelligence key to successful automation
With shipping lines demanding higher productivity and reduced handling costs, terminals that don''t have the ability to implement new technology are less likely to be able to provide efficiency improvements, as David Foxwell reports
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Speed up, tone down and save time
Users such as Ceres Paragon Terminals say automation and a high specification TOS has a number of benefits. Ceres Paragon claims to operate the fastest container terminal in the world, and will be the first marine terminal to integrate IT systems provided by Navis with image acquisition portals, weigh-in-motion scales, ...
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HAL cold ironing
Holland America Line (HAL) has recently retrofitted two of its ships to plug into shore power at the Port of Seattle. And, in a separate program, HAL plans on conducting a seawater scrubber feasibility project aboard one of its cruise ships
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Valencia to build fifth box terminal
The Port of Valencia is expected to issue a tender in the second quarter of 2008 for a fifth container terminal.
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IPH lands Great Yarmouth partnership
International Port Holdings (IPH) has won a public procurement process to become the preferred partner for the development and operation of the existing Great Yarmouth river port and its new outer harbour project.
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THAMES CARGO UP
Interested parties will have to partially finance construction of the facility, although public investment of ?396.3m is also earmarked.Port facilities on the Thames handled 53.8m tonnes of cargo in 2005, an increase of 1% on the previous year. The figures cement the Port of London's top three UK port ranking ...
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MAASVLAKTE TERMINAL ATTRACTS SIX
The Port of Rotterdam Authority has received six proposals for operation of a 138 ha container terminal on Maasvlakte 2.
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ICTSI REGGIANE ORDER
Interested parties will have to partially finance construction of the facility, although public investment of ?396.3m is also earmarked.As part of a $25m programme, Madagascar International Container Terminal Services, which belongs to ICTSI, has placed an order for four mobile harbour cranes with Italian manufacturer Reggiane. Also on order are ...
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NewsCargotec swoops on BMH
Pneumatic unloading specialist BMH Marine looks set to be swallowed up as Cargotec continues to strengthen its bulk handling hand.
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DP World eyes Crete
A DP World management delegation recently made a working trip to Greece to review port operations there. The officials visited Piraeus, Thessaloniki and Tympaki in Crete.
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REVENUE DECLINE AT PIRAEUS
Piraeus port authority has reported a 3.8% drop in revenue during the first quarter. This amounted to € 34.5m compared with € 35.9m in the corresponding 2005 period.
