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NewsChennai box terminal costs soar
The cost of building the Mega Container Terminal at Chennai Port has risen by 21% to $740m,with spiralling dredging rates playing a large part in the price hike.
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News'Uncompetitive' stevedores come under fire
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has slammed the uncompetitive nature of the country''s stevedoring industry.
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NewsThe Insurer
That might be the motto for port and terminal operators as they and their brokers attempt to navigate the aftershocks of the capital markets crisis. Marine insurers are feeling the pinch in any case from their own portfolios, and remain wary of being buffeted by ripples from elsewhere in the ...
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NewsAutomated vehicles go zero
TTS Port Equipment has unveiled a new range of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), following a partnership with Numexia to create a zero-emission energy chain system.
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NewsRMG article
RMGs get short shrift when operators consider quayside container handling options, but are they unfairly tagged as ''unflexible''? Alex Hughes believes so
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NewsBPA spotlight on port policy and sustainable development
This year’s British Ports Association conference was hosted by the Milford Haven Port Authority. The Conference focused on UK Transport Policy, Port Markets and Sustainable Development. Kate Royston reports.
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NewsBringing the port into the classroom
In an initiative to improve the image of container ports, Contship Italia has introduced Porto Lab into the curriculum of a number of Italian schools.
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NewsNewcastle Fender Study
Last month’s Port Strategy highlighted the importance of fender research, something that Australia’’s Newcastle port heartily supports.
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NewsStrike action continues at Dover
The strike at Dover looks like continuing this week as a further three-day walk-out is planned for Thursday. Hundreds of Unite members working at Dover Harbour went on strike last week after a dispute hinging on the outsourcing of harbour jobs to private contractors was not resolved.
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Bahrain to open in January
APM Terminals'' Bahrain Gateway facility at Khalifa bin Salman Port in Hidd is slated to open at the end of this year or in early January. The port will service the adjacent Bahrain Logistics Zone.
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NewsPort loses its old friend
Maersk, the first shipping line to recognise the Port of Tacoma''s significance to the US-Asia route over two decades ago is ceasing its service to the port from May next year, due to falling container volumes.
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NewsShips for the desert
The Middle East is known for both areas of political volatility and large infrastructure projects, and both are combining to motivate one development that would be the mother of them all - a giant canal across the desert that could handle both oil tankers and freight ships.
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NewsWomen in Maritime reaches Asia
Port executives are playing an influential role in the imminent launch of what will be known as ''Women in Maritime Asia Region''.
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NewsMiners interested in share of coal port
Macarthur Coal has expressed an interest in buying a stake in one of Australia''s largest coal ports, say industry sources.
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NewsIntelligent in-port repositioning: an ecological solution to relieve the roads
A scheme aimed at relieving the environmental strain on the road system recently celebrated an anniversary: HHLA’s Unikai affiliate and its partner Deutsche Binnenreederei have now transported 100,000 TEU by barge between O’Swaldkai and other Hamburg terminals.
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200 up for the LHM 400
In Autumn 2008, Liebherr-Werk Nenzing celebrated its 200th LHM 400 mobile harbour crane. Introduced in 1996, the LHM 400 - characterised by a max. lifting capacity of 104 tonnes and a max. outreach of 48 meters – is particularly suitable for ship-sizes up ...
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NewsEnvironmentally mobile
Mobile crane manufacturer Liebherr has been introducing eco-technology into its equipment .
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NewsAiming upward
Kuwait also has its possibilities - and its problems. Easily one of the richest nations on earth, Kuwait collapsed as the region''s premier trade hub in the 1970s after the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, and Iraq''s 1990 invasion.
