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    Global Port Tracker unveiled

    2009-12-09T12:24:00Z

    Hackett Associates has launched a Global Port Tracker report to replace IHS Global Insight''s Port Tracker, which ceases publication at the end of the year.

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    Cuba commits to ports modernisation undertaking

    2009-12-08T12:24:00Z

    The expansion of the Panama Canal has prompted Cuba to fund the expansion and modernisation of its three main ports in collaboration with China and Venezuela.

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    Deeper access for Portland

    2009-12-08T12:24:00Z

    Patience has been a virtue at the Port of Portland, as Felicity Landon finds out

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    India to Liverpool link

    2009-12-07T12:24:00Z

    Since around 60% of current trade from India to the UK is ultimately being delivered to within a 150-mile radius of the Liverpool, the local port authority has put two and two together, and looked at opening up a direct shipping service to the west coast of India.

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    New transhipment port for Costa Rica

    2009-12-07T12:24:00Z

    The National Concessions Board of Costa Rica is to permit technical studies to be carried out for a $700m transhipment terminal close to the existing Port of Moí n on its Atlantic coast. Results are expected within a year and a tender will be issued in mid-2011 should these suggest ...

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    Green issues

    2009-12-07T12:24:00Z

    The clearance of a seven-year Environmental Impact Report logjam is one of the most important port issues from the point of view of the Marine Exchange of Southern California.

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    Another two ports for Tideworks

    2009-12-07T12:24:00Z

    Tideworks has secured orders from two ports in the Americas for its software systems.

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    New multi-national box terminal in Russia

    2009-12-06T12:24:00Z

    Russian, Chinese and North Korean investors are planning to open a new container handling facility at Primorskii Krai in Russia. The facility, which will eventually be able to handle 400,000 teu annually, will be built in phases.

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    North Harbour development on track in Manila

    2009-12-06T12:24:00Z

    A joint $312m bid by Metro Pacific Investments and Harbour Centre Port Terminal has been accepted by Philippine Ports Authority for the development and operation of the North Harbour at Manila.

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    Russia to back Ust-Luga bonds

    2009-12-05T12:24:00Z

    Ust-Luga Port in Russia is to issue state-backed bonds worth $695m.

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    NZ volumes down but boxes up

    2009-12-05T12:24:00Z

    Forsyth Barr senior investment analyst Jeremy Simpson''s review of the annual reports of 11 New Zealand ports has revealed that total cargo volume comparably fell during the year despite a slight average increase in container throughput.

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    New Baltic Sea NOx Study published

    2009-12-05T08:55:00Z

    Annual ship emissions of nitrogen oxides in the Baltic Sea could be cut by around 270,000 tons by 2015 by the application of an emissions charge, according to a new study entitled "Market-based instruments for NOx abatement in the Baltic Sea."

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    Hamburg needs to upgrade infrastructure

    2009-12-04T12:24:00Z

    Companies using the Port of Hamburg have called upon the government to rapidly implement port facility expansions.

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    Stockton

    2009-12-04T12:24:00Z

    The Port of Stockton saw imports fall but exports increase in the first nine months of 2009, and is predicting a final result for the year to be similar to 2008.

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    Tauranga performance praised

    2009-12-04T12:24:00Z

    A market report prepared by Morningstar research unit, AspectHuntley, has praised the Port of Tauranga for doing a "remarkable" job of returning a 7.3% increase in net profit after tax to NZ$45m (US$ 33.6m) during the recent global recession-affected financial year.

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    Port of Kolding wins Danish Ports Initiative Award

    2009-12-04T09:01:00Z

    Copenhagen...The award was given to a Danish Port that had taken an extraordinary initiative within sustainable development, environment, energy and climate.

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    Aden seeks more transhipment traffic

    2009-12-03T12:24:00Z

    The Port of Aden is looking to expand its infrastructure to enable it to attract higher levels of transhipment traffic. The two existing terminals are managed by a joint venture between a state-owned company and DP World. Design work on the planned extension is begin in 2010.

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    Ports free of Dubai woes - almost

    2009-12-03T12:24:00Z

    The ports industry released what must have been a collectedly-held breath when on Wednesday the Government of Dubai finally told investors that DP World and its debt "are not included in the restructuring process for Dubai World."

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    Bio-energy tie-in for UK ports

    2009-12-03T12:24:00Z

    It seems UK ports are increasingly floating themselves on a Green revolution. Last week the Port of Tyne signed a 10 year agreement to handle and store between 0.5 million and 1.4 million tonnes of biomass per annum.

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    Spanish and Portuguese ports 'worst EU performers'

    2009-12-03T12:24:00Z

    Of all the European Union countries, ports in Portugal and Spain have reportedly fared worse in the current economic downturn, with traffic down 12.3% at the former and 12% at the latter in the last quarter of 2008.