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VERACRUZ
However, the concession route has not been adopted for the upgrading of facilities and Quay 5, at least not for the moment.Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has bought a 78.5% stake in the Veracruz stevedoring company Terminales de Cargas Especializadas (TCE). ADM is already Mexico's second leading importer of agricultural ...
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TACOMA
However, the concession route has not been adopted for the upgrading of facilities and Quay 5, at least not for the moment.The Tacoma Commission can now press on with its plan to widen the Blair Waterway after the approval of a US$12.5m settlement with Weyerhaeuser which leases the land from ...
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NewsMontevideo could oust BA
The current level of container traffic at Buenos Aires which handles practically 90% of Argentina''s box traffic, is commensurate with the box boom year of 1998. However, analysts are warning that the high cost of doing business there could ultimately result in Buenos Aires being downgraded to a feeder port.
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NewsGuam box terminal privatisation coming in on final approach
Guam is soon to make a decision about the privatisation of its container terminal facilities.
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NewsArgentina invests to handle giants
Argentina''s leading terminals have been forced to invest in post-Panamax gantry cranes by carriers whose larger ships are putting pressure on South America''s east coast to meet their needs.
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NewsBenchmarking to get ahead
How does a port or terminal go about determining how good it is? Does it benchmark - against its nearest rival, a world league table, or what?
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NewsCan booms protect our ports?
Despite the strikes on the warship USS COLE in 2000 and the French VLCC LINDBERG in 2002, attacks from the sea remain a much neglected area of security to which ports are particularly susceptible. Stopping small craft such as speedboats from entering port areas is becoming a higher priority due ...
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NewsAre ports lagging?
Everybody accepts that the world is a different place since 9/11 but ports may not be doing enough to protect themselves writes Benedict Young.
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NewsBelow the waterline: the weak link?
Underwater security is currently considered a weak link for ports in the battle against terrorism. " We are working to augment divers with technology," says Dr Douglas Todoroff, director of sensing and systems division of the Office of Naval Research in the US. " There''s a need for regular surveys ...
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NewsMarket overcomes safety fears
A few years ago public unease about new LNG terminals looked set to limit the aspirations of the US, the biggest potential market for LNG imports. But things are changing as Mike Corkhill, editor of LNG World Shipping, reports.
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Congestion? What congestion?
Does anyone still remember the panic about US West Coast port congestion and that this evil was going to be with us for years to come? And do you remember thinking that the PierPass scheme which penalises daytime truck traffic to the ports was a whimsical gasp of desperation?
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NewsP&O Act 1 or 2?
Will DPW''s bid for P& O prevail or is Temasek/PSA rewriting the script? Mike Mundy investigates.
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KEMBLA GATEWAY
These include NYK, MOL, CMA CGM, PSA, HPH, Evergreen, Container Corporation of India, Larsen & Toubro and Gammon India. A contract is expected to be awarded in September or October.Challenges from four companies are threatening Kembla Gateway's plans to upgrade, landing the company in the New South Wales Land and ...
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NewsWhat's happening where
The major European contractors Royal Boskalis Westminster, Van Oord, Jan de Nul and DEME, are estimated to share 60% of the global dredging market whilst contractors based in Asia and the US, namely Penta Ocean, Hyundai, Samsung and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, together with various regional and local players, ...
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Hot potato
In the dredging business the impact of environmental and social factors can never be overlooked and there is no better example of these interests clashing with commercial and economic considerations than Port Phillip Bay, the conduit to the port of Melbourne.
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NewsPolitics never far away
As container ships get bigger, as LNG projects proliferate, as ports compete for traffic, inevitably the call to deepen approach channels, harbours and berths grows louder. And in some cases, so do the howls of protest. Nick Elliott reports.
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NewsThe reclaim game
The rationale for capital and maintenance dredging is one thing but land reclamation is driven by an entirely separate set of criteria. Many ports still have little idea of the economics involved and so don''t even consider reclamation.
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So farewell then, P&O Ports
At first P& O Ports was hardly a group of ports at all, more a higeldy-pigeldy collection of Australian and English Channel terminal operations acquired over the years during the early phases of containerisation.
