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  • New Zealand’s Napier Port has ordered six further lift trucks from Konecranes
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    Napier orders new Konecranes lift trucks

    2017-06-21T15:27:00Z

    New Zealand’s Napier Port has ordered six further lift trucks from Konecranes to its terminal in the Hawke’s Bay region of the country’s North Island.

  • The Port of Grangemouth has ordered a new multimillion pound ship-to-shore container crane from Liebherr
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    Liebherr to supply Grangemouth STS crane

    2017-06-21T15:27:00Z

    Scotland’s largest container facility, the Port of Grangemouth, has ordered a new multimillion pound ship-to-shore container crane from Liebherr as part of a major investment programme designed to increase handling capacity and customer service.

  • Protesting truckers have had little impact on productivity, say ports. Credit: Teamsters
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    LA/LB work around truck protests

    2017-06-21T12:03:00Z

    Truck drivers and warehouse workers from companies serving America’s Long Beach and Los Angeles ports have gone on strike to protest against work contracts which they say deny them the same rights as employed workers.

  • SLNG terminal
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    SLNG performs first small LNG reload

    2017-06-21T10:42:00Z

    Singapore LNG Corporation (SLNG) has undertaken its first small-scale Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) gas-up/cool-down and reload at its terminal on Jurong Island.

  • Room for improvement: The areas most in need of care seem to be carrier to terminal coordination, supply chain visibility and terminal operations
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    Navis-led study reveals terminal disconnects

    2017-06-20T13:00:00Z

    A new study has uncovered ‘huge opportunities’ to improve performance and customer service through better use of data across the ocean supply chain.

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    New Veracruz terminal tender

    2017-06-20T11:31:00Z

    In Mexico, Veracruz port authority (API) has issued a tender for the construction and operation of a new terminal in the port’s expansion area in Vergara Bay. This replaces an earlier tender that had to be withdrawn upon the insistence of the competition authority (Cofece).

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    Latin American box traffic in decline

    2017-06-20T11:31:00Z

    The latest port ranking table published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) shows that container traffic in 2016 dropped by 0.9%, reinforcing the overall negative trend in recent years.

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    Further Panama Canal extension mooted

    2017-06-20T11:31:00Z

    If demand warrants it, the Panama Canal could be further extended before 2025, according to Canal administrator, Jorge Quijano.

  • Advance will replace the Accelerated Growth Programme first introduced in 2007 Photo: Jossian Brito/flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0
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    Brazil announces new infrastructure investment plan

    2017-06-20T11:31:00Z

    The Brazilian government is putting together a new infrastructure investment plan – Advance – to replace the Accelerated Growth Programme, first introduced in 2007. This latest initiative has been motivated by the 1% growth in GDP recorded in the first quarter of this year.

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    Outeiro construction mothballed

    2017-06-20T11:31:00Z

    All work has ceased on the construction of Terminal Portuário de Outeiro, in the city of Belém, in the Brazilian state of Pará.

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    Owners and unions at loggerheads in Spain

    2017-06-20T11:31:00Z

    The general assembly of the Spanish owners’ association Anesco has voted against accepting a pre-agreement reached with stevedoring unions, claiming it is anti-competitive and in breach of proposed new government legislation, which the unions oppose.

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    Philippines Coast Guard to take over port security

    2017-06-20T11:31:00Z

    The Philippines government has ordered the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) to take over security of all the country’s ports and waterways.

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    Mitsui wins Myanmar crane order

    2017-06-20T11:31:00Z

    Japan’s Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding is to supply eight new cranes to Thilawa in Yangon, in a contract awarded by the Myanmar Port Authority.

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    Cruise ship fuelled by LNG while docked

    2017-06-20T10:31:00Z

    Germany-headquartered AIDA Cruises will supply its newly launched cruise ship with low-emission liquefied natural gas (LNG) while she is docked in the Port of Barcelona.

  • Antti Kaunonen
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    Terminals need to integrate to evolve

    2017-06-19T20:59:00Z

    Port operators cannot justify having their own extensive engineering and development resources in the future, Antti Kaunonen, president of Finland-headquartered Kalmar, has stated.

  • ‘ENGIE Zeebrugge’ arrived in Zeebrugge at the beginning of April
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    Gas bunkering begins at Zeebrugge

    2017-06-19T17:33:00Z

    Gas bunkering has begun at the Port of Zeebrugge with the bunkering vessel ''ENGIE Zeebrugge'' making its first deliveries of LNG.

  • Port of Kiel
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    Wastewater facility opens in Kiel

    2017-06-19T16:57:00Z

    A ship facility has opened in Kiel which increases current wastewater reception capability tenfold to as much as 300m3 an hour.

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    MEA key to Hutchison Ports’ growth strategy

    2017-06-19T15:53:00Z

    Hutchison Ports’ managing director for the Middle East and Africa region has spoken out about the importance of the Chinese governmental initiative One Belt, One Road to the company’s growth strategy.

  • European dockers are protesting in solidarity
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    Europe's dockers set July strike dates

    2017-06-19T15:52:00Z

    The International Dockworkers Council (IDC) has announced plans to hold a Europe-wide strike in solidarity with Spanish dockers’ protests against liberalising reforms to Spain’s dock labour system.

  • Virginia International Gateway container terminal
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    Kalmar to provide 16 hybrid shuttle carriers to US port

    2017-06-19T10:04:00Z

    Kalmar, part of Finland-headquartered Cargotec, has finalised a deal with The Port of Virginia for sixteen hybrid shuttle carriers designed to reduce fuel consumption, emissions and engine noise.