World News – Page 208

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    Supply chain services can add value

    2014-06-25T16:15:00Z

    Ports looking to add value by offering supply chain services should be honest, use arm’s length solutions and be clear on customer needs, according to Euroports’ Paul Jacob Bins.

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    Shipping lines more receptive to terminal dialogue

    2014-06-25T12:05:00Z

    Shipping lines seem to be softening in their hard-line approach to port productivity, accepting that it takes “two to tango”, according to Gulftainer’s Simon Sundboell.

  • Shipper relations are feeling the strain. Photo: Roger Wollstadt/Flickr
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    Port ‘musical chairs’ hurts shippers

    2014-06-25T12:04:00Z

    Playing “musical chairs” with port rotations and failing to notify cargo owners in a timely manner is leading to increasingly disgruntled shippers.

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    Peel Ports’ people power

    2014-06-25T12:04:00Z

    Operators need to ditch the idea of a port construction project as a civil engineering job, and embrace it as a business project with an emphasis on people, according to Peel Ports Group port director David Huck.

  • US expansion: This latest agreement in in line with Gulftainer's 2020 vision
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    Gulftainer moves into USA

    2014-06-24T15:40:00Z

    Gulftainer is growing in line with its vision to expand to 35 terminals in five continents by 2020 with a 35-year concession at Port Canaveral in Florida, USA.

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    Vietnamese port IPOs a failure

    2014-06-23T12:35:00Z

    Ports in Vietnam have been struggling to find buyers for shares released as part of several recent IPOs.

  • Spanish ports are feeling the pressure
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    Spanish ports await €150m hit

    2014-06-23T12:35:00Z

    Spanish national port authority president José Llorca has warned of a €150m hit if Spain is ordered by the EU court in Luxembourg to dismantle its existing stevedoring arrangements.

  • Efficiency drive: Liverpool2 will be one of Europe's most technologically advanced terminals
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    Making customers count

    2014-06-20T10:00:00Z

    Peel Ports'' chief executive Mark Whitworth gets ready for a new era for the Port of Liverpool

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    'Rail motorway' to bolster Calais

    2014-06-18T10:00:00Z

    Ambitious plans for a ‘rail motorway’, logistics park and port extension are set to add a whole new dimension to the Port of Calais.

  • GCT has added 29 OCR gates to its expanded New Jersey terminal
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    GCT expands New Jersey offering

    2014-06-17T17:03:00Z

    Global Container Terminals (GCT) is expanding its New Jersey terminal in response to customers’ greater productivity needs and to ensure it’s ‘big ship ready’.

  • FRIGO has opened new cold storage in the Port of Hamburg
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    Hamburg counts its cold stars

    2014-06-17T10:00:00Z

    The Port of Hamburg last year set a new record for handling reefer containers. A total of 618,000 teu of refrigerated containers were loaded and discharged, equivalent to a 9.3% increase compared with 2012.

  • Long Beach is working hard to attract new business and cut emissions
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    Long Beach ups its game

    2014-06-16T14:25:00Z

    The Port of Long Beach (POLB) is introducing two new incentives in a bid to attract additional cargo and compete with other West Coast ports.

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    Legal challenge to PSA's second bid for JNPT4

    2014-06-16T12:12:00Z

    A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed against the award of the $1.3bn fourth container terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru Port, in India, to PSA.

  • Growth spurt: Hamburg saw a 10% increase in feeder services into the North Sea and Baltic last year
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    Cargo speaks volumes

    2014-06-16T10:00:00Z

    North European container volumes tell one story, other cargo streams tell many others. Felicity Landon reports

  • LPC will put an insurance pay-out to good use. Credit: Ross Younger
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    Lyttelton bulks up berths

    2014-06-12T16:03:00Z

    A post-earthquake insurance settlement for New Zealand’s Lyttelton Port of Christchurch will be used to “optimise facilities for the future” including financing the construction of a new wharf at Cashin Quay 2.

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    Tampa seeks new gantry cranes

    2014-06-12T16:02:00Z

    Tampa Bay is in the market for new post-panamax gantry cranes to expand capacity at its container terminal.

  • Slow Chinese growth has stunted port volumes. Credit: Chris
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    Global port growth overtakes China

    2014-06-12T11:08:00Z

    Cargo throughput at global ports grew faster than at Chinese ports over the first quarter of 2014, according to a report from Shanghai International Shipping Institute.

  • President Obama has cleared the US water act. Credit: Youtube
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    US WRRDA clears its final hurdle

    2014-06-12T10:44:00Z

    The US Water Resources Reform and Development Act has cleared its final hurdle with President Obama’s signing of the much-delayed act this week.

  • Turbulent time: Chaos has struck at New Zealand's Timaru port
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    NZ port restructure causes chaos

    2014-06-06T15:44:00Z

    New Zealand’s PrimePort Timaru is awash with chaos as the restructuring of operations means several jobs are at risk – for the third time in four years.

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    Plan to nationalise ports in Buenos Aires province “absurd”

    2014-06-05T11:46:00Z

    The deputy governor of the state of Buenos Aires, Gabriel Mariotto, has put forward a project to bring all ports within the province back under the direct control of local government, whilst boosting exports in Argentine-flagged vessels to a minimum of 50%.