Latest News – Page 1147
-
News
Oil seed mill for Bilbao
Islamabad is very keen to present Gwadar as the gateway for trade to and from the Central Asian states.Moyresa, part of the multinational Bunge Group, has asked Bilbao Port Authority for permission to build an oil seed mill and refinery on a vacant plot in the Punta Sollana area of ...
-
News
Itaqui upgrades
The Brazilian port of Itaqui is to receive investment totalling $68m over the next four year to fund upgrading and expansion work. $61m will come from the Federal Government and $6.82m from the state. Transport minister Anderson Aduato noted that although Brazil has some 30 ports only about five or ...
-
News
Algeciras' largest contract
At present Itaqui has six operational berths of which one is leased by CVRD, and a seventh is currently inactive.A consortium consisting of Dragados, Sato and Drace has 32 months to implement a €100m infrastructure expansion project at Algeciras, which is the largest contract it has ever placed. The port ...
-
News
Kuwait revamps ports to chase Iraqi traffic
Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) is to invest $100m in upgrading capacity at its three container terminals in the ports of Shuwaikh, Shuaiba and Doha in order to cope with an expected upsurge of 45% in demand to and from Iraq following the recent regime change there.
-
News
Privatisation a must in Peru
Calls have been made in Peru for the immediate privatisation of the ports of Paita and Callao, the latter being the main gateway for the capital, Lima. Both require investment totalling $300m which local pundits believe is beyond the capability of any state-run agency. However, others are opposed to the ...
-
News
Paradip to build berths
Paradip port trust has invited expressions of interest for the construction of two new berths which will be taken forward on a BOT basis.
-
News
Sines LNG terminal from January
The first LNG tanker called at Galpenergia''s € 250m LNG terminal in the port of Sines as part of a test run prior to full commissioning of the facility as from January.
-
News
Singapore talks tough
However, KPA is seeking proposals from private sector companies wishing to invest in port facilities as a means of ensuring that infrastructure work can be implemented as soon as possible.Singapore's senior minister and former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, has stated the island republic will not lose any more container ...
-
NewsWeser expands again as records fall
Germany''s second biggest port complex, Bremen/Bremerhaven, just missed the 50m tonne handling mark in 2003 but says the record will be broken this year amid further extension of the Bremerhaven Container Terminal.
-
News
Java's new BIP port gets lift-off
Construction of the Bojonegara International Port (BIP), west of Jakarta, began in December with the inauguration of the project in Banten by President Megawati Soekarnoputri.
-
News
Baranquilla: legislation will boost role
Legislation recently passed by the Colombian parliament may have the effect of boosting the importance of the Pacific coast port of Barranquilla. The new law makes it easier to put together viable public-private partnerships in the maritime sector meaning that privatisation of ports should become a lot easier. This, it ...
-
News
Lazero Cardenas and Ningpo opt for Navis
Lazaro Cardenas Terminal Portuaria de Contenedores (LCT), operated by Hutchinson Port Holdings, has selected Navis SPARCS, the terminal planning and control software, to optimise container-handling operations at its new terminal.
-
NewsNamibia and Taiwan opt for Transas
Transas has installed two VTS systems in the Namibian ports of Walvis Bay and Luderitz. The independent port surveillance systems fitted are to assist port control operators to supervise ship traffic within the port and help ship masters and pilots avoid collisions when following the port approach channels.
-
NewsLiebherr's uplifting figures
Liebherr-Werk Nenzing delivered 48 units last year including 11 of its biggest crane in its 7-model range, the LHM 500, characterised by a maximum outreach of 51 meters and a lifting capacity up to 140 tonnes suitable for handling post-panamax vessels and claimed to be the most powerful harbour mobile ...
-
NewsGreenSeas Trust
GreenSeas Trust, established by Fazilette Khan (one of Port Strategy''s regular contributors), has been officially registered as a charity organisation.
-
NewsAntwerp takes 99th MHC from Gottwald
Gottwald has recently supplied an HMK 360 EG MHC to Antwerp Bulk Terminal (ABT), operator of five bulk terminals in the port. The new crane is also the ninety-ninth to be delivered to Belgium by Gottwald. The HMK 360 EG is the largest four-rope grab MHC ever built.
-
NewsMetalock Engineering
Having ascertained that the slew ring on its 20 year-old cement unloader was in need of replacement, the management of Forth Ports, Leith called in Metalock Engineering to machine the 3.28 metre diameter slew ring surfaces to a high degree of flatness. This enabled a new slew ring to be ...
-
News
Kalmar supplies ASCs to Delta
Rotterdam' s European Container Terminal (ECT) is continuing the expansion of its Delta container terminal with fully automated stacking equipment developed together with Kalmar.
-
News
IHC pulls new orders worth €130m
Besides the orders for a 1,000m 3trailing suction hopper dredger for Iran, three standard cutter suction dredgers and a Delta Pusher, the final order for the construction of a selfpropelled mega cutter suction dredger was received from French customer, SDI, part of Belgian-based DEME.
-
NewsNOURISHING THE BLUE BANANA
If the Blue Banana, the curve of light stretching from northern England through the Rhineland to northern Italy and first observed from space 15 years ago, is the economic heart of Europe, then the Benelux ports are the valves through which its lifeblood of trade is pumped, reports Nick Elliott ...
