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NewsReport identifies projects with “national significance”
The latest Infrastructure Australia report outlines a number of port and logistics related projects that it says would help free up some of the country’s freight jams.
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Vacuum mooring for Dampier
An Australian mining port is to install a vacuum-based automated mooring technology. Hammersley Iron Pty, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, is putting in eight MoorMaster units at the Dampier Fuel Wharf, Parker Point, Western Australia.
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NewsHamburg contest celebrates new thinking
A contest organised by Hamburg Port Authority, looking for the best design concepts for its planned Central Terminal Steinwerder, attracted a host of innovative ideas.
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Malta Freeport expansion
Terminal 2 at Malta Freeport is to be expanded. The North Quay will be extended from 480 metres to 668 metres and the West Quay from 118 metres to 312 metres. The overall Birzebbuga terminal area will also grow by a further 25,500 square metres.
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NewsSucking up could help box terminals
The use of vacuum mooring solutions such as Cavotec’s MoorMaster can not only speed up and increase safety in ferry turnrounds but could allow the construction of container terminals in more exposed locations, says AECOM’s Richard Clarke.
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NewsMajor Yangtze crackdown on overloaded vessels
Chinese river ports from Sichuan province to Shanghai have been involved in the largest action yet against overloaded vessels in the region.
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NewsBrazil feeling the sugar rush
Brazilian ports such as Santos have been coming under pressure from the large number of handysize vessels arriving to pick up sugar exports, doubling waiting time at the port to around three weeks.
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NewsDP World to share box information
DP World’s terminal operations are to start sending data on containers to an external IT platform called SICIS (Shared Intermodal Container Information System), following successful pilot demonstrations.
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Tideworks wins Vietnam contract
SP-SSA International Terminal (SSIT), a greenfield terminal close to Ho Chi Minh City, has opted for Tideworks'' suite of terminal management software to manage Vietnam''s growing container volumes.
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Ports Australia backs best practice
Ports Australia has advocated that state governments adopt a “best practice” to protect valuable port land from possible encroachment by other urban developments.
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Vallarpadam to be rate competitive
Cochin Port Trust has decided to pitch vessel-related charges at the new Vallarpadam container transhipment terminal at a level that will make facility competitive with other transhipment hubs in the region.
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NewsDrill, baby drill
It’s impossible to pick up any maritime newspaper or magazine, or surf the myriad excellent websites offering business news, without reading about the ''oil spill''.
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NewsEvolution, not revolution
Quieter times in the conservative ports sector are prompting some new thinking. Felicity Landon reports
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Riga port on the move
A tender has been issued for the transfer of Riga Port from the city centre to the nearby Russian island of Krievu sala.
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New port for Chile
Chile''s Ministry of Public Works has issued a tender for the construction of a quay and harbour at San Pedro de Chañaral in the Atacama region in the north of the country. The work will be financed by the regional government.
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Napier holding company mooted
A holding company may be established to operate a range of developing Hawke’s Bay Regional Council assets as well as its currently wholly-owned Port of Napier.
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Melbourne third stevedore not a certainty
The Port of Melbourne Corporation is going to the market with a discussion paper on options for port expansion, following indications from the Victorian Government that it wants to explore other possibilities than purely developing a third container terminal.
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NewsSaigon orders zero-emission cranes
Kalmar is to deliver six E-One2 zero emission rubber-tyred gantry cranes to Vietnam''s Saigon Newport (SNP).
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NewsTercat takes over terminal site
Terminal Catalunya (Tercat), a member of the Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Group, is to take over the site of the Muelle Prat container terminal from Barcelona Port Authority in order to start construction on the new quay.
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Georgia cleans up crane act
The Georgia Ports Authority has received grant money from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program to repower 17 of its older rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) from TIER I to newer, cleaner TIER III diesel engines.
