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NewsDeveloping roles
Chris Wooldridge of Cardiff University points out, “When the port sector started environmental research and development fifteen years ago, the initiative was focussed on cargo handling at the quay side, but now it must broaden its scope. Shipping is a global activity; it’s time to deliver integrated environmental management for ...
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NewsNo Christmas stocking for box ports
The liner industry has entered the slow season. Normally the peak season comes around late August through early October, but this year it came early in the July-August period.
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NewsContaining the ore outbreak
HFW''s Donny Low discusses developments in the Australian port scene
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NewsUS container ports and air pollution: the IMO challenge
As the shipping industry responds to new IMO fuel regulations, it should be looking to work more closely with the port sector to introduce alternative, environmentally-friendly, fuels. James S. Cannon, President, Energy Futures Inc, analyses some of the available options.
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NewsFirst call drive
Martin Rushmere finds out why California''s Oakland has put itself in overdrive
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NewsReefer monitoring streamlines checks
South African port operator Transnet Port Terminals has installed the Refcon system at its Cape Town terminal to remotely carry out temperature checks on refrigerated shipping containers.
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Ports hold back on Canal congratulations
Pacific Coast ports are mostly taking a wait-and-see attitude to the impact of the expanded Panama Canal in 2014.
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Big orders for Kalmar tractors
Over the last five months Cargotec has received contracts to supply a total of 200 Kalmar terminal tractors to Parsec Inc - the intermodal division of Cincinnati-based O/B Leasing.
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NewsAt the waterfront
Ports are placed at the waterfront, so the potential environmental impact of activities are manifold, writes José Fernandez Garcia. Here he gives an overview of a new set of guidelines that aim to help...
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French seek to revive Argentinean terminal project
The French Institute of Independent Financial Studies and Piedrabuena have offered to take over a stalled project to build the Port of Río Grande in Argentina. The debt owed by the original concessionaire, the Ormas-Andrade Gutiérrez consortium, would be assumed by the two organisations, who would invest $180m in the ...
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Tideworks unfurls latest mainsail
Tideworks has launched the next generation of its terminal operating system, Mainsail Vanguard.
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NewsSri Lanka hot for port development
Sri Lanka is to press on with further port development following what a top government official described as the ''striking development'' of ships at the just-opened Hambantota port.
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NewsThai shipper buys into Vietnamese port
Dry bulk shipper Thoresen Thai Agencies is to spend some 346.38m baht ($12m) to buy a strategic stake in Vietnam’s Baria Serece, which controls Phu My port, it has confirmed.
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NewsThird time’s a charm for Vizhinjam
India’s Vizhinjam Port has invited tender bids from the 31 companies that submitted expressions of interest for operating the proposed port.
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Befriend the green movement, ports told
Australian port managers need to take on board the emerging influence of the Green movement, and be prepared to engage with its political leaders.
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Latin Americans need port policies
The head of the UN''s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ricardo Sanchez, has said that Latin American governments need to redefine their port policies as a means of integrating coastal ports with the region''s industrial and production sectors.
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Container handler for Clydeport
Clydeport has taken delivery of a new Hyster H18.00XM-12EC empty container handler to support its growing import and export operation at the Greenock Ocean Terminal, which expects an annual container throughput of 80,000 teu.
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Mixed results expected from Congressional shake-up
US government maritime policy is certain to change with the defeat of the Democrat who chaired the Congressional committee in charge of port affairs.
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Latin Americans need port policies
The head of the UN''s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ricardo Sanchez, has said that Latin American governments need to redefine their port policies as a means of integrating coastal ports with the region''s industrial and production sectors.
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NewsBlack clouds on the funding horizon
With the Holidays approaching, air travel delays (rather than port issues) are occupying most transport watchers.
