World News – Page 116

  • UK ports are frustrated by the lack of movement on laudable Maritime 2050 actions. Credit: Matt Buck
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    Frustration of a one-track planning environment

    2019-05-02T11:47:00Z

    Brexit: UK ports can''t be sure about it, can''t get past it and can''t ignore it. But, as Felicity Landon reports, they are trying to look beyond it

  • The Chinese have invested more than €600m in upgrading port infrastructure in Piraeus
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    Game of leapfrog in the Mediterranean

    2019-05-02T11:43:00Z

    Competition is heating up for the number one slot in the region’s container handling sector. Alex Hughes reports

  • The Port of Southampton in 2016 Photo: M. Zhu/flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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    BPA chair: ports a force for good

    2019-05-01T12:17:00Z

    Ports are part of the solution, not the problem, when it comes to a range of challenges facing the UK, the chairman of the British Ports Association (BPA) has said.

  • Nusrat Ghani Photo: Chris McAndrew/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 3.0
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    Minister: UK ports need higher standards

    2019-04-30T16:16:00Z

    The UK ports industry needs to continue to set itself greater standards and be more imaginative if it is to truly reach its full potential across the upcoming decades, the UK’s Maritime Minister has said.

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    ICTSI disputes Sudan concession 'cancellation' claims

    2019-04-30T12:02:00Z

    International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has said it has not received “any official notice” from the Sudanese government of the suspension of its concession contract for South Port Container Terminal at Port Sudan.

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    Fatal crane fire prompts Kolkata shutdown

    2019-04-29T10:59:00Z

    An investigation is underway at the partially shut Port Haldia following the death of a worker who was forced to jump from a burning crane after a fire broke out.

  • Port de Sète
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    DP World unit abandons French concession

    2019-04-26T15:14:00Z

    DP World-owned P&O Ports has reportedly withdrawn from its contract to run the container terminal in the Port de Sète in France.

  • APM Terminals Los Angeles
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    Slow progress for LA automation negotiations

    2019-04-25T21:01:00Z

    Negotiations for an agreement on APM Terminals'' modernisation plan at the Port of Los Angeles'' Pier 400 are in progress and being led by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

  • Firefighter footage of the blaze. Credit: Stockton Firefighters Local 456
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    Fire rages at Californian port

    2019-04-23T11:25:00Z

    Firefighters battled a fierce blaze at a recycling plant at the Port of Stockton on Monday, with their efforts hampered by high winds.

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    Brexit ‘noise’ frustration for UK ports

    2019-04-23T10:29:00Z

    British ports are being frustrated in their day-to-day operations by “the noise of Brexit”, according to a leading port spokesperson.

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    Singapore reveals Tuas schedule

    2019-04-23T10:28:00Z

    The Tuas Terminal mega port will commence its first phase of operations in 2021 with two berths for ships, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has said.

  • Port of Havana
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    Ports industry lose out in Cuba crackdown

    2019-04-23T10:01:00Z

    Port construction companies are amongst businesses which could be affected by US government action enabling parties to sue businesses in Cuba deemed to have profited off private land seized during the country’s 1959 revolution.

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    Uruguay backtracks on TIL terminal rejection

    2019-04-23T09:54:00Z

    Having turned down a request from MSC’s terminal arm, Terminal Investment Limited, to build a new container terminal in the Port of Montevideo, Uruguay’s National Ports Administration (ANP) has had a change of heart and has put forward an alternative plan for a different location.

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    Spain faces yet another competition probe

    2019-04-23T09:54:00Z

    Spain''s National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) has announced that it is to investigate competition not only between Spanish ports but also with those of other countries.

  • Port of Varna
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    China secures Bulgaria foothold

    2019-04-18T15:26:00Z

    China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) has signed a US$135.5m Bulgaria port project construction contract with Logistic Center Varna EAD to jointly develop port infrastructure in Bulgaria’s Port of Varna.

  • The products were delivered to the Hutchison Ports facility by multipurpose carrier AAL Kobe Photo: Port of Felixstowe
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    UK port welcomes first remote RTGs

    2019-04-17T19:29:00Z

    The busiest container port in the UK has seen the arrival of its first remote-control rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs).

  • The objective of the JIT concept, according to the authority, is to obtain zero-level at outside port anchorage (image is of the city of Damietta) Photo: Ayman Muhammad Elshahat/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0
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    Damietta aims to make just-in-time history

    2019-04-17T19:29:00Z

    Egypt’s Damietta Port could be one of the first ports globally to use the just-in-time (JIT) concept prior to approval by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), according to the facility’s authority.

  • APM Terminals Los Angeles
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    New setback for APMT's LA automation project

    2019-04-17T16:53:00Z

    The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners has for the second time delayed a decision on a strongly contested permit for APM Terminals to carry out modernisation work to introduce driverless electric cargo trucks at the Port of Los Angeles’ Pier 400.

  • Liverpool Peel Ports
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    Partial sale considered for Peel Ports

    2019-04-16T22:07:00Z

    Deutsche Bank''s former asset management business is considering selling part of its stake in Peel Ports, in a deal that could value the port operator at £4bn.

  • HHIC Philippines
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    ICTSI eyes Philippines expansion

    2019-04-16T12:41:00Z

    International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) is negotiating with banks to purchase the facilities of bankrupt shipyard Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines (HHIC Philippines).