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NewsWHAT'S IT DOING OUT THERE?
In weather sensitive operations the availability of short term, high-resolution data can greatly assist in the effective utilisation of time and equipment, and in optimising the profitability of operations.
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NewsUK'S SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT TOO LITTLE BUT NOT TOO LATE
New facts and figures underline that the UK Government still has time to take a more coordinated approach to adding new containerport capacity. Mike Mundy reports.
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NewsA POLITICAL FAVOURITE
The Baltic Sea is a busy place with over 60 ports handling some 230m tons of cargo annually. The Russian port complex at St.Petersburg is the largest of these and, in its entirety, is known as the ''Great Port''. Lena Beloglazova reports.
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NewsTECON'S FRUIT HARVEST
International Container Terminals Services Inc (ICTSI) is to invest $15m at its Tecon Suape container terminal located in north-eastern Brazil. The new investment, which will bring ICTSI''s total investment to date at Tecon Suape up to a level of $55m and includes funds for two new post-Panamax cranes and new ...
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NewsBUOYANT TRADE PITY ABOUT THE IMBALANCE
There has been a serious re-shuffling of the alliances on the trade routes between Europe and South America as lines seek to get to grips with an uncomfortable balance between imports and exports. Rainbow Nelson reports.
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NewsRUSSIAN COAL EXPORTS ON FIRE
Coal reserves in Russia are generally agreed to be some of the best currently available, despite having problems with contamination from iron. Demand is nevertheless growing, with production increasing in 2003 by around 12% to 285m tons. Alex Hughes investigates.
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NewsSALUTORY THOUGHTS ON QUAY WALLS AND CRANES
Fools wander in where civil engineers fear to tread but speak to the specialist insurers and they all know a thing or two about contact damage and ports. There are some rough rules of thumb which hold true most of the time. Like when a ship''s bulbous bow touches a ...
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GOVERNMENT MUST GET IT RIGHT
No one wants government to have too strong an influence over a privatised port environment but some sort of architecture in which coordinated development can take place is essential. The international port industry knows from well-documented experiences such as excessive capacity being introduced in Buenos Aires, Argentina, just what the ...
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NewsTHE CHINA FACTOR
Gavin van Marle examines the opportunities for foreign investors in China''s burgeoning container handling sector - and in its hinterlands.
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US Customs looks to cut out doubling up
US Customs has rejected calls to take manifest details about export goods direct from other Customs agencies, saying it is unworkable.
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US seeks IMO standards for company security officers
However, assistant US Customs attache Peter Darvas said it will try to make the task easier by researching ways to make its systems more compatible with those used in other countries.The US wants the IMO to oversee the standards of shore-based company security officers under the auspices of the ISPS ...
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Chinese and Trinidad & Tobago select SeaSecure
The Chinese government has selected maritime security and counter-terrorism consultants, SeaSecure, to provide training for the Hong Kong Marine Department in preparation for ISPS Code compliance.
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NewsU.S. ports welcome grants but heed shut-down warning
US ports seeking federal grants for 1,065 security enhancement measures have learned that 442 of the plans will be funded. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) named recipients of $179,025,900 in the third round of federal grants for port security.
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Guangzhou attracts investment
Applications totalling over $987m had been submitted by ports across the country seeking funding assistance in order to comply with new U.S.The Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone, located at the very heart of the Pearl River Delta, claims to have inked nine maritime development projects worth $673m to add to eight ...
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San Antonio to build new terminal
Applications totalling over $987m had been submitted by ports across the country seeking funding assistance in order to comply with new U.S.Empresa Portuaria San Antonio has issued terms and conditions covering the construction of a new container terminal which will be located 105km from the Chilean capital Santiago. This will ...
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Five bid for JNPT
Five of eight interested parties have entered firm bids for the concession to run the third container terminal at JNPT in India.
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Aqaba reports record throughput
Applications totalling over $987m had been submitted by ports across the country seeking funding assistance in order to comply with new U.S.Aqaba Ports Corporation has acquired two MHCs from Germany to enable 85 containers/hour to be handled at its container terminal which has been handling record volumes - up 75% ...
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Barcelona to build third terminal
Applications totalling over $987m had been submitted by ports across the country seeking funding assistance in order to comply with new U.S.Barcelona port authority is to issue tenders covering the 70m Euro construction of a new 60ha container terminal at Muelle Prat. The terminal, which will have 1000 metres of ...
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NewsPMSi and CRG team up
Control Risks Group''s international maritime division has joined forces with PMSi (Port Maritime Security International) to offer a complete security solution throughout the logistics supply chain.
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Aussie and Brit ports face up to ISPS deadline?
Australian transport minister John Anderson has been reported by the Weekend newspaper as saying of the ISPS Code:
