All Port Strategy articles in Web Issue – Page 582

  • Alphatron Marine to provide discount to Green Award ships
    News

    Recognising Green Award ships

    2016-06-22T10:38:00Z

    Alphatron Marine will reward Green Award certified ships with a 10% discount on a range of its products and services for both sea-going and inland navigation ships.

  • There's less money to be made from terminal operations. Credit: Dieter Gora
    News

    Operations risk/return ratio increasingly skewed

    2016-06-22T10:23:00Z

    Container terminal operators are facing mounting risks and diminishing returns in a climate characterised by port modal share volatility and uncertainty.

  • News

    DBA wins Baku contract

    2016-06-21T15:40:00Z

    The DBA Group has reached an agreement with Baku International Sea Trade Port to supply architecture and engineering services for the new Port of Baku in Alat.

  • Cavotec has secured a contract to install a combined mooring and battery charging system on a Finnish passenger ferry
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    Cavotec wins Finland ferry contract

    2016-06-21T14:26:00Z

    Engineering group, Cavotec, has won a second order for a combined automated mooring and battery charging system for a hybrid passenger ferry in Finland.

  • Ports need to prepare for the worst. Credit: Equipe Integrada
    News

    Contingency planning now essential for VGM

    2016-06-21T14:09:00Z

    Just days until the enforcement date of the IMO’s SOLAS amendment on container weighing, the industry is being told to put contingency plans in place as upwards of 70% of containers are expected at ports without a verified gross mass come July 1, according to ICHCA International.

  • Victorian government needs to look further ahead. Credit: David Wallace
    News

    Melbourne needs future-proofing

    2016-06-21T12:14:00Z

    Long-term port planning in the Australian state of Victoria needs to improve if it is to handle its future freight task, according to Opposition infrastructure and ports spokesman David Hodgett.

  • News

    Contecon's Posorja legal challenge rejected

    2016-06-21T12:14:00Z

    A request by Contecon, the ICTSI company which operates the container terminal at the port of Libertador Simón Bolívar de Guayaquil, to have DP World''s Posorja concession suspended as a precautionary measure has been turned down by Ecuador''s competition authority, the Superintendencia de Poder de Control de Mercado (SPCM).

  • News

    More delays to Brazilian concession programme

    2016-06-21T12:14:00Z

    In Brazil, Wellington Moreira Franco, the minister responsible for the country’s port concession programme, has asked for patience in respect of difficulties that have emerged in implementation.

  • News

    Posorja to become major industrial zone

    2016-06-21T12:14:00Z

    Otto Bottger, DP World''s commercial manager for the South American west coast and future director of the Posorja container terminal, has confirmed that the operator is to invest $1.2bn in its latest project.

  • News

    Australia lays down weighing law

    2016-06-21T12:14:00Z

    The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has issued its final decision on rules for ports and shippers regarding container weighing protocols.

  • News

    Auditor General investigates Quetzal contracts

    2016-06-21T12:14:00Z

    Guatemala’s Auditor General, Carlos Mencos, has filed a criminal complaint in respect of 19 contracts that are in force in the Port of Quetzal (EPQ) on the grounds that they transfer public powers to the private sector.

  • News

    Darwin commits to US$18.5m development

    2016-06-21T12:14:00Z

    Infrastructure investments are being planned for the Port of Darwin that will expand its reefer, general cargo and cruise ship capability.

  • PSA has invested in 22 new AGVs
    News

    PSA strengthens AGV fleet

    2016-06-21T11:35:00Z

    PSA Singapore (PSA) has invested in 22 new Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) for its container terminals, bringing the fleet to 30 units.

  • Environmental experts have warned MPs and peers of the dangers posed by marine litter
    News

    PLA backs Cleaner Thames campaign

    2016-06-21T10:32:00Z

    The Port of London Authority (PLA) is backing a campaign to rid the Thames of marine litter as environmental experts warn MPs and peers of increasing danger to marine life.

  • MoorMaster AMS units during At Sea Demonstrations
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    Cavotec nets second combined MoorMaster order

    2016-06-20T16:38:00Z

    Cavotec has announced that it has won a second order for its combined MoorMaster and battery charging system for a hybrid passenger ferry application in Finland.

  • Drax trains at Liverpool biomass terminal
    News

    Shifting freight sustainably

    2016-06-20T15:26:00Z

    The Port of Liverpool has its focus firmly on sustainable freight transfer. To date its completed 400 rail transfers to Drax power station in North Yorkshire.

  • Health & Safety: POAL has been fined for 'failing to take all practicable steps to ensure the safety of employees at work'
    News

    POAL fined for workers’ fall

    2016-06-20T14:29:00Z

    Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) has been fined NZ$49,980 and ordered to pay NZ$12,000 in reparations after a stevedore employed by the company fell nearly 3m off the unguarded edge of a hatch lid.

  • The Port of Barcelona already has an LNG supply infrastructure
    News

    Barcelona LNG focus

    2016-06-20T10:29:00Z

    The Port of Barcelona and Enagás have signed an agreement to set up a new logistics services for LNG using the energy company''s regasification plant it manages in the port area.

  • Wärtsilä 34DF engine which will power the IB Polaris
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    LNG icebreaker

    2016-06-20T09:46:00Z

    The design and technical aspects of the IB Polaris icebreaker vessel, powered by LNG, were unveiled at CIMAC World Congress in Helsinki.

  • Kalmar FastCharge technology aiming to expand
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    Kalmar FastCharge expansion

    2016-06-17T13:11:00Z

    Kalmar has announced that it will expand FastCharge technology into its hybrid straddle and shuttle carrier product portfolio.