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NewsPainting a rosy picture
A "Baltic Port Barometer" study carried out in June-August this year painted a rosy picture of growth and investment. Felicity Landon examines the findings
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LNG power is a shore thing
Mitsui OSK Lines has successfully tested a liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuelled shore power supply system on the containership MOL Enterprise.
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Queensland port potential
A new port will be built if approval is forthcoming for a 30 million-tonnes-a-year coal mine in Queensland''s Galilee Basin. Hancock Prospecting has studied Abbot Point and Dudgeon Point, to the south of Hay Point, as possible locations.
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NewsTurkish port's expansion plans
Marport East (previously Kumport), has ordered another eight E-One+ rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Kalmar to support its five-year expansion plan, which also includes land reclamation and bridge connections.
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The Italian job
Kalmar has acquired an 80% share of two Italian service companies, CVS Technoports and CVS Service from the CVS Ferrari Group, who will retain 20%. The companies will work under the name Officine Cargotec Ferrari and will focus on developing the service offering towards container and material handling customers in ...
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Spain ramps up port investment
Spain''s Development Ministry is to invest ¢ 1.537bn ($1.94bn) in the national ports network, covering construction of 2,900 metres of linear berth and 91 hectares of new operating area.
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NewsCentrePort 'forgotten' in regional planning
Newly-appointed CentrePort Wellington chairperson Warren Larson believes the Capital City''s port is being overlooked in regional transport planning initiatives.
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Paita concession timeline
.hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana }Investors interested in the concession for Peru''s Paita port, have until February 13, 2009 to present documents in the prequalification process, ProInversió n which promotes private investment there, has said. The 30-year Paita concession consists of the design, ...
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Tractors to stand idle as market plummets
While current orderbooks will keep suppliers busy with deliveries until about August next year, the irony is that ports may be wondering what to do with their new machines when containership operators begin to lay up their vessels and the flow of containership traffic retracts.
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El Prat cost doubles
The collapse of 600 metres of newly built quayside at the Port of Barcelona''s Prat development area on the January 1, 2007 has reportedly doubled the cost of the work of constructing the new container terminal there to nearly ¢ 200m ($252.6m).
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Baltic Container Terminal gets set for expansion
The construction of a 200-metre quay extension, due to start next year, will increase capacity at the Baltic Container Terminal in Riga from 600,000 to 1m teu.
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'Straight from the box' container recognition
A new container recognition gantry, which can be pre-assembled, tuned and tested before delivery, could save time at installation, accoridng to the manufacturers.
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Nigeria drops port charges by 30%
The president of Nigeria has approved a 30% reduction in charges, fees and fines imposed by the regulatory agencies on cargo cleared at national ports.
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PS Opinion Piece
I saw a summary the other day of the container line service cutbacks that had taken place in the Far East-North Europe, Far East-Mediterranean, Far East-USEC and Transatlantic trades. In the Far East-North Europe trade there were seven major cutbacks, in the Far East Mediterranean eight, Far East/USEC two and ...
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NewsPhasing in a freight station
Eredene Group has invested in a new container freight station (CFS) close to the rapidly expanding Indian port of Ennore.
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NewsTracking the tractor
Changes in requirements and emissions legislation have spurred tractor development, as Patrik Wheater finds out
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Off road trials for gas machines
Gas-powered, versatile container hustler machines that are at home both on and off-road, are being tested by Total Terminals at Ports America facilities in Long Beach, California.
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Rotterdam in Malaysian venture
Rotterdam Port Authority has signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysia''s Palm Oil Industrial Cluster to develop the Port of Lahad Datu on the island of Borneo. The eventual port could cover an area of 5,500 hectares.
