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NewsPorts are tackling the 'Green' Challenge
More than 200 delegates from 30 countries came together in Hamburg to discuss and debate key green issues affecting ports today
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NewsClaims under control
TT Club''s Charles Fenton tells James Brewer how the insurer has steered its way through the financial shoals
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NewsMaking the most of a supporting role
In this season of Labor Day, job creation and the inchoate 2012 Presidential campaign trail - now an eighteen month affair - ports continue to be a bit player in the larger script.
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NewsBenefits born out of adversity
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 brought fundamental change to the ports sector. And while this change was born out of adversity much of it is change that can now be regarded as positive.
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Fender choices driven by price
Price-driven fender purchases could “increase costs and reduce the efficiency of ports over the longer-term”, according to research from Trelleborg Marine Systems.
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NewsCargotec envisages game-changing 'Port 2060'
WITNESSING CARGOTEC’S COMMITMENT to support future generations of container terminal operators, the company recently launched the ‘Port 2060’ project, which aims to imagine how the container industry might evolve over the next 50 years as a result of what Cargotec envisages will be ‘game-changing’ technologies.
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Long Beach makes 70% diesel pollution cut
The Port of Long Beach''s clean-air efforts are achieving dramatic across-theboard reductions in air pollution, including a 72 percent decline in diesel particulates, according to the latest comprehensive study.
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NewsDover's focus on efficiency
WITHIN A PORT context, ‘efficiency’ is usually a word associated with operational rather than environmental management, but it has been the mantra used to deliver real carbon savings at the Port of Dover.
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NewsPlanning ahead pays off
Cranes with very long outreaches are now being put in position at major ports around the world. But is existing port infrastructure sufficient to be able to accommodate them?
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Cadiz concession delay
Six consortia have bid for the contract to build the new container terminal at the port of Cadiz, with a contract to be awarded in September. However, the operating concession will only be issued 18 months prior to the facility opening.
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Konecranes nets Lithuania contract
Konecranes has confirmed an order for three ship-to-shore cranes and seven rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Lithuania’s JSSC Klaipedos Smelte. The cranes will be delivered to the port of Klaipeda starting in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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NewsNew Report Ranks Top-20 Carriers
SeaIntel Maritime Analysis has developed an environmental benchmark index allowing direct comparisonbetween the 20 largest container carriers.
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$600m Development for Port Bonython
Flinders Ports wants to build a $AUS600mill port with a three kilometre-long jetty at Port Bonython, near Whyalla, South Australia.
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NewsRotterdam barge terminal strategy pays environmental dividends
ALPHERIUM, THE LARGEST barge-connected inland terminal in the Netherlands, has proved such a success since it opened for business in October 2010 that the facility is already operating at capacity.
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NewsLarger than life
The big ships are coming, but where are the orders for equipment to serve them asks Alex Hughes
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Spaniards demand profitable ports
The Spanish cabinet has approved revisions to the National Port Law which will make it mandatory for ports to achieve a 2.5% annual surplus.
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Tampa lands federal security funding
Tampa Port Authority has secured some $2.6m in federal funding for security-related, collaborative initiatives.
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NewsMOL Earns Environmental Ratings from DBJ
Mitsui OSK Lines has purchased the DBJ Environmental Ratings from the Development Bank of Japan.
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NewsZero-Emission Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck
Vision Industries has delivered the world''s first zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell-electric Class 8 truck to Total Transportation Services Inc (TTSI).
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Chilean operators oppose Panitao tender
Armasur, the professional body representing maritime transport operators in Chile, is opposing the concession to build the proposed Punta Panitao port in the south of the country.
