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  • Joint venture: Port of Gävle and Yilport Gävle are working together to expand operations
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    Gävle to double capacity for growth

    2017-12-18T15:11:00Z

    The largest container port on the Swedish East Coast is doubling its capacity to 600,000 teu in order to achieve continued growth.

  • Season's Greetings from GreenPort
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    Season’s Greetings from GreenPort

    2017-12-18T10:58:00Z

    GreenPort would like to wish all of our supporters and readers season’s greetings and send our very best wishes for a happy and successful 2018.

  • The Tri-Gen facility will supply all Toyota fuel cell vehicles moving through the port including Toyota’s Heavy-Duty hydrogen fuel cell class 8 truck
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    US port in hydrogen power plant first

    2017-12-18T10:37:00Z

    Toyota is building what it calls the world''s first Megawatt-scale 100% renewable power and hydrogen plant at the US Port of Long Beach.

  • Mike Mundy: The tender for the new container terminal at the port of Mombasa was actually a multi-criteria bid process but it still derailed in the face of mis-management
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    Moving with the times

    2017-12-16T10:05:00Z

    COMMENT: Slowly but surely, port agencies in Africa are becoming more sophisticated about how they offer port properties – container terminals, multipurpose terminals and so on – for a public-private partnership (PPP), writes Mike Mundy.

  • Growth: PhilaPort is looking to double container and vehicle throughput and increase breakbulk volumes by 21%
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    A new chapter

    2017-12-16T10:04:00Z

    Philadelphia rebranding highlights the port’s future focus, finds Martin Rushmere

  • Pit stop: seafarers need to maximise the limited time they have in port. Credit: IMO
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    Sanctuary for seafarers

    2017-12-16T10:04:00Z

    Ports need to balance commercial realties against funding seafarer welfare. Alex Hughes reports

  • Caption: Auto call: ports need to be ready for autonomous ships, like the Yara Birkeland. Credit: Kongsberg/Ørnulf Rødseth
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    Autonomy preparations

    2017-12-16T10:04:00Z

    Valenciaport Foundation’s Alexandre Sánchez Pérez and Jonas Mendes Constante highlight questions that port authority managers should be asking about autonomous ships.

  • Accident count: 85% of the cost of major injuries and fatalities are caused by vehicles and heavy equipment
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    Read the traffic signs

    2017-12-16T10:03:00Z

    TT Club''s Laurence Jones explains how simple traffic management procedures can reduce incidents

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    Safe as houses

    2017-12-16T10:03:00Z

    COMMENT: In November, Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s leading port operator, launched its transformed property arm with a 960-hectare land bank, marking a further step in the gradual transition of the group from port operator to a development company of port, logistics and manufacturing complexes in 21 UK ports, ...

  • A bulk cargo carrier being pulled by a tugboat.
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    Standards to share

    2017-12-16T10:02:00Z

     

  • Joint effort: there can be a shared interest in operating sustainably
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    Who’s the greenest?

    2017-12-16T10:02:00Z

    Felicity Landon asks if there’s a case for a sustainability ranking for ports

  • Governance: Nigeria is moving closer to creating a national ports authority. Credit: APM Terminals
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    Nigeria's new dawn

    2017-12-16T10:01:00Z

    COMMENT: Finally, after more than a decade of delays at Nigeria’s National Assembly, the Nigerian Ports and Harbours Bill is in the final stages of approval that will lead to its enactment.

  • Gas goals: JAXPORT has fitted LNG tanks to its Talleyrand Marine Terminal. Credit: JAXPORT
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    Finding fuel partners

    2017-12-16T10:01:00Z

    COMMENT: The underlying shipping markets seem to be gathering steam, if presenters at recent ship finance conferences are to be believed, writes Barry Parker.

  • Climbing up: PSC inspectors will need to raise their capability. Credit: DW Bradshaw
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    Muddying the water

    2017-12-16T10:00:00Z

    Ballast water regs could create issues for ports as well as lines, warns Stevie Knight

  • First in: Virginia is targeting first and last call business. Credit: USACE
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    Depth isn't everything

    2017-12-16T09:59:00Z

    US East Coast ports continue to dig deep for business. Martin Rushmere reports

  • Gap: it is getting harder to find skilled port workers
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    Labour challenge

    2017-12-16T09:59:00Z

    Are fully-owned port labour pools falling out of favour, asks Alex Hughes

  • Pouring in: Australian ports are still investing in coal handling. Credit: Port of Newcastle.
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    Dropping coal position

    2017-12-16T09:58:00Z

    As environmental initiatives bite, coal is losing favour at European ports. John Bensahlia reports

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    Forging Chinese connections

    2017-12-16T09:58:00Z

    COMMENT: Much of the major port and terminal investments over the past ten to fifteen years have been made by private and corporatised companies from the likes of DP World, PSA, ICTSI and SSA Marine, as well as from firms linked to carriers such as APM Terminals (Maersk), Terminal Link ...

  • Growth: West African ports, like Tema's breakwater, are building rapidly. Credit: Ghana Ports Authority
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    Rekindling the flame

    2017-12-16T09:56:00Z

    The rollercoaster West African port sector might be on the rise again, finds Stevie Knight

  • The deal aims to make learning and development opportunities accessible to all employees while encouraging them to seek essential functional skills support
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    PD Ports-Unite seal learning deal

    2017-12-15T11:13:00Z

    UK-based ports company PD Ports has signed a ''Learning Agreement'' with Unite the Union (Unite) for its sites across the North East of the country. The deal aims to make learning and development opportunities accessible to all employees while encouraging them to seek essential functional skills support.