All Port Strategy articles in Web Issue – Page 695

  • The new tool will help shipowners identify routes that may qualify for ballast water exemptions. Photo: Zane Johnston
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    New online BWM tool unveiled

    2014-07-23T11:20:00Z

    A new online ballast water management tool has been developed by Helcom and Ospar Commissions to make ballast water treatment easier for shipowners.

  • Sold off: APMT’s Portsmouth terminal is being sold to US investors
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    APMT sells off US terminal

    2014-07-23T11:11:00Z

    APM Terminals is selling its state-of-the-art container terminal located in Portsmouth, Virginia, US, because it doesn’t want to remain a non-operating lessor of the facility to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the next 16 years.

  • Container
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    Weighing it up

    2014-07-23T10:00:00Z

    Felicity Landon considers the impact of the new container weight verification requirements on ports.

  • Full picture: labour issues at Ngqura port may not be what they seem
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    Get to the truth of it

    2014-07-23T10:00:00Z

    COMMENT: ''Spin'' – what can be called bending facts to suit your own purposes – is no longer confined to governments and large commercial organisations, writes MIke Mundy.

  • News

    Heading for a new economic crisis

    2014-07-23T10:00:00Z

    China has scuttled the development of super alliances with its negative decision on the P3 whose rationale was for joint fleet management by the top three carriers which would have resulted in a reduction of capacity, which in turn would lead to a rise in freight rates.

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    Vinalines to sell off five more ports

    2014-07-22T16:02:00Z

    Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) is to undertake IPOs at five additional large ports by the end of the current year.

  • News

    Haiphong orders TPS eRTGs

    2014-07-22T16:02:00Z

    Haiphong Port has placed an order for six electric rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Terex Port Solutions.

  • News

    CODESP to adopt new management style

    2014-07-22T16:02:00Z

    The appointment of Angelino Caputo de Oliveira as head of São Paulo State Dock Company (CODESP) is a further step towards centralised management of Brazilian port companies - which is a prerequisite of the new Ports Law adopted by nation in 2013.

  • Dusty ships loader
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    Dust free loading process

    2014-07-22T15:58:00Z

    ISG Pit to Ship Solutions has designed a dust free logistic system to transport products from the mine site into the ship’s hull using sealed containers and a tippler. The product is not handled again until it is tipped into the ship’s hull, says Garry Pinder, Managing Director of ISG ...

  • Eight of DFDS Seaways' vessels have already been fitted with scrubbers
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    DFDS gets scrubber funding

    2014-07-22T12:00:00Z

    The EU has awarded DFDS Seaways funding of DKK47.2m towards the installation of scrubbers on five of its freighters that sail between Gothenburg and Ghent and England.

  • News

    New renewable energy partnership

    2014-07-22T11:24:00Z

    Japan''s Eco Marine Power (EMP) has entered into a new agreement with MINs Control System Solution to sell its renewable energy solutions into Singapore and Myanmar.

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    Asciano looks to sell ports stake

    2014-07-21T16:22:00Z

    Australian transport group Asciano is in talks with third parties regarding the potential sale of a “non-controlling interest” in its terminals and logistics business division.

  • Conference

    Sponsorship Opportunities

    2014-07-21T14:58:00Z

    Sponsorship is an ideal way to raise your company profile in this competitive market sector and is a unique opportunity to reach the key decision-makers with targeted promotion to the most relevant contacts. For more information on sponsorship packages available for the 2022 edition of this event, view this year's ...

  • The WHRS will allow UASC's vessel power to be generated with a lower overall fuel consumption
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    Green power for UASC container ships

    2014-07-21T14:46:00Z

    Siemens’ Drive Technologies division is equipped 17 container ships owned by the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) with an environmentally-friendly drive and power generation system (Siship SGM).

  • The vessel is the first project of a new partnership between NYK, GDF Suez and Mitsubishi
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    'World first’ at Zeebrugge

    2014-07-21T14:31:00Z

    Korea’s Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) is to build what it said to be the world’s first LNG bunker tanker for Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK).

  • Truck to ship bunkering has been taking place at Antwerp since 2012
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    Antwerp moves towards permanent LNG station

    2014-07-21T14:22:00Z

    Antwerp Port Authority is continuing its focus on LNG with the aim of setting up a permanent bunkering station at the port by the beginning of 2016.

  • Truck to ship bunkering has been taking place at Antwerp since 2012
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    Antwerp moves towards permanent LNG station

    2014-07-21T14:17:00Z

    Antwerp Port Authority is continuing its focus on LNG with the aim of setting up a permanent bunkering station at the port by the beginning of 2016.

  • Water wall: South Africa's Port Elizabeth has suffered under the impact of the storms. Credit: M Hoppe
    News

    A question of magnitude

    2014-07-21T10:00:00Z

    How can, or should, ports be designed with climate change in mind, ask Felicity Landon and Stevie Knight

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    Liebherr takes Chilean order

    2014-07-20T11:07:00Z

    Ireland-based Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd is to supply three ship-to-shore (STS) container cranes to Chile’s Terminal Pacífico Sur Valparaíso.

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    MacGregor secures orders worth $50m

    2014-07-20T11:07:00Z

    MacGregor, part of Cargotec, is to supply its further high efficiency cargo handling solutions for Hyundai Heavy Industries.