World News – Page 224
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NewsPort ‘musical chairs’ hurts shippers
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
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.
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NewsGulftainer moves into USA
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
Ports in Vietnam have been struggling to find buyers for shares released as part of several recent IPOs.
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NewsSpanish ports await €150m hit
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.
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NewsMaking customers count
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
Ambitious plans for a ‘rail motorway’, logistics park and port extension are set to add a whole new dimension to the Port of Calais.
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NewsGCT expands New Jersey offering
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’.
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NewsHamburg counts its cold stars
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.
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NewsLong Beach ups its game
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
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.
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NewsCargo speaks volumes
North European container volumes tell one story, other cargo streams tell many others. Felicity Landon reports
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NewsLyttelton bulks up berths
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
Tampa Bay is in the market for new post-panamax gantry cranes to expand capacity at its container terminal.
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NewsGlobal port growth overtakes China
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.
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NewsUS WRRDA clears its final hurdle
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.
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NewsNZ port restructure causes chaos
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”
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%.
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Police intensify corruption investigations at Ashdod Port
Alon Hassan, head of the Ashdod port union, has been placed under house arrest and barred from entering the port for 90 days as police continue to investigate alleged improprieties.
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NewsFinancial problems continue to impact Spanish ports
Several ports in Spain are suffering from a catalogue of financial woes. At Gijón-El Musel, the cost overrun of €247m linked to the expansion of the port is alleged to be criminal in nature.
