All Port Strategy articles in Web Issue – Page 787
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NewsShipping on the up as scrapping increases?
According to the latest quarterly shipping confidence survey from international accountant and shipping adviser, Moore Stephens, confidence levels have recovered slightly from their lowest level for over four years.
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NewsLocking in funds Africa-style
In August 2012 the Kenyan government opened a tender for the design and construction of the first three berths at the new port of Lamu, to be financed by the annual sale of 13bn shillings ($154.4m) of infrastructure bonds over five years.
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NewsAdvances to acquisitions
Advances in straddle carrier technology have led to some notable recent acquisitions.
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NewsSound carriers
Can automation tick the safety first box for straddle carriers. John Bensalhia investigates
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NewsYilport acquires majority share in Gemport
Yilport Holding, part of Turkey’s Yildirim Group, has acquired a majority share in the country’s first private port operator, Gemport Port and Warehousing Administration.
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NewsStrike averted as USMX and ILA reach agreement
Following a meeting with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) on Thursday, the International Longshoremen Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) reached an agreement, averting a strike along America’s East Coast.
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NewsBenchmarking Green Corridors
The corridor approach is an effective way to address the fragmented nature of European transport networks, say George Panagakos, Research Associate and Harilaos Psaraftis, Head of the Laboratory for Maritime Transport at the National Technical University of Athens.
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NewsHouston urges port to do its bit
Houston is upping the ante to reduce emissions on the back of the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PM2.5 standard for fine particle emissions – but some say that the port needs to do the same.
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NewsLawsuit filed over Oz fossil fuel project
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the EU Export-Import Bank for providing almost AUS$3bn to finance a fossil fuel facility in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
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NewsSpreader 'add ons' a necessity not a luxury
There is a time and a place for basic spreaders, Pedro Cisternas Fernández, who oversees Valparaíso-based container handling facility, Terminal Pacífico Sur''s gantry crane operations tells Port Strategy.
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NewsPortVision explains new MTMSA guidelines
American maritime technology company, PortVision, has explained that terminal optimisation platforms can help terminal operators meet the expectations recently set by the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF).
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NewsDNV and GL join to form mega-class society
Oslo-based classification society Det Norske Veritas has announced that it has concluded an agreement to merge with another major class society, Germanischer Lloyd. The new entity will be known as DNV GL Group.
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NewsBack to basics
Alex Hughes asks the leading spreader manufacturer whether greater sophistication equals more maintenance
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NewsGAC West African expansion underway
Global shipping and llogistics specialist, the GAC Group, is making headway with its expansion in West Africa – its signed a Global Network Agency (GNA) agreement with Oil and Marine Agencies (OMA) Ltd for support services for all ports in Ghana, Togo and Benin.
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NewsIntercargo worries over MARPOL changes
The International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners (Intercargo) has expressed its concern over the lack of information and understanding of important changes to MARPOL Annex V for port reception facilities.
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NewsNegotiations continue to avoid US strikes
Following a disagreement over a contract extension, the International Longshoremen Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) continue negotiations to avoid work stoppage along America''s East Coast.
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NewsIPC focuses on being eco-green
Indonesian port operator, Indonesia Port Corporation II (IPC), has conducted a new programme to clean up the port of Tanjung Priok which includes litter collection and tree planting as part of its ‘Greening and environmental hygiene programme’.
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NewsLetter to the Editor
Dear Editor, as a specialist fender consultant I am non-aligned and provide support to manufacturers and end users of fenders on a variety of topics which I believe benefit and improve the fender industry, also investigations to identify the diverse causes of fender failures when these become an insurance or ...
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State to step in at Manta
Ecuador''s Minister of Transport & Public Works, Maria de los Angeles Duarte, has stressed that the government will fund the $106m Manta deep water port itself, if it has to.
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Haldia Dock re-tender
Kolkata Port Trust is to re-tender berths 2 and 8 at the Haldia Dock Complex just three weeks after ABG Haldia Bulk Terminals abandoned its concession there.
