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NewsTaking Sustainability as an important aspect of competition
AS HAMBURG WILL play host to this year’s 6th GreenPort Congress, where port industry, academia and policy-making executives will meet to learn about and discuss the latest in sustainable environmental practice, GreenPort Magazine would like to give the word to the big chief of Hamburg Port Authority, Jens Meier.
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New LIFE Focus
The EC has published a new edition of LIFE Focus journal under the title: “LIFE and resource efficiency: Decoupling growth from resource use”.
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NewsExhibitors enjoy the opportunity to network with delegates
ABB, BROMMA, Environmental Consulting, ewo, Fraunhofer CML and Schneider Electric all took the opportunity to talk with delegates during the breaks.
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NewsHamburg Port Authority hands over the baton to Marseille!
Marseille Fos Port Authority will be the hosts of the 7th GreenPort Congress from 3-5 October 2012.
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NewsDelegates were welcomed to the Congress at the beautiful Hamburg Town Hall
A warm reception was waiting for attendees at the 6th GreenPort Congress.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
