World News – Page 307
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NewsReefer monitoring streamlines checks
South African port operator Transnet Port Terminals has installed the Refcon system at its Cape Town terminal to remotely carry out temperature checks on refrigerated shipping containers.
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Ports hold back on Canal congratulations
Pacific Coast ports are mostly taking a wait-and-see attitude to the impact of the expanded Panama Canal in 2014.
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French seek to revive Argentinean terminal project
The French Institute of Independent Financial Studies and Piedrabuena have offered to take over a stalled project to build the Port of Río Grande in Argentina. The debt owed by the original concessionaire, the Ormas-Andrade Gutiérrez consortium, would be assumed by the two organisations, who would invest $180m in the ...
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NewsSri Lanka hot for port development
Sri Lanka is to press on with further port development following what a top government official described as the ''striking development'' of ships at the just-opened Hambantota port.
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NewsThai shipper buys into Vietnamese port
Dry bulk shipper Thoresen Thai Agencies is to spend some 346.38m baht ($12m) to buy a strategic stake in Vietnam’s Baria Serece, which controls Phu My port, it has confirmed.
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NewsThird time’s a charm for Vizhinjam
India’s Vizhinjam Port has invited tender bids from the 31 companies that submitted expressions of interest for operating the proposed port.
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Container handler for Clydeport
Clydeport has taken delivery of a new Hyster H18.00XM-12EC empty container handler to support its growing import and export operation at the Greenock Ocean Terminal, which expects an annual container throughput of 80,000 teu.
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Mixed results expected from Congressional shake-up
US government maritime policy is certain to change with the defeat of the Democrat who chaired the Congressional committee in charge of port affairs.
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Latin Americans need port policies
The head of the UN''s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ricardo Sanchez, has said that Latin American governments need to redefine their port policies as a means of integrating coastal ports with the region''s industrial and production sectors.
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Befriend the green movement, ports told
Australian port managers need to take on board the emerging influence of the Green movement, and be prepared to engage with its political leaders.
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Humber logistics development
A £100m port-related logistics development on the south bank of the Humber is at the root of plans submitted by Able UK Limited.
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NewsDouble bubble at Cape Town
Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has installed “dual cycle” operations at its Cape Town terminal, allowing containers to be discharged and loaded simultaneously.
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NewsNgqura already reaching out to transhipment
The year-old Ngqura Container Terminal (NCT) is, it seems, making its mark as a transhipment hub already and has outstripped all projections.
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NewsBulk over boxes
Diversified US West Coast ports have been the clear winners in 2010''s weak market, explains Martin Rushmere
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NewsTacoma targets declining box volumes
Tacoma has pledged to tackle falling box throughput spurred by the loss of a major shipping line and increased competition from both Canada and the US East Coast.
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Salalah draws in the masses
The Port of Salalah has confirmed that it has received bids from 19 companies interested in building a major new general cargo terminal and liquid jetty. The estimated cost is $181m.
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NewsSenator secures ABP hubs
UK-based security company Senator is delivering International Ship and Port Facility Security Code services for Associated British Ports’ South Wales units.
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Pirie ore facility request
A development application has been lodged to build an ore receival, storage and loadout facility at Port Pirie in South Australia.
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China to fund Bangladesh projects
China is backing construction of a new deep sea port at Sonadia, near Cox''s Bazar in Bangladesh, and a project to build a new highway from the Indian port of Chittagong to Kunming, in China. Bangladesh relies on the Port of Chittagong for external trade, with under-utilised Mongla port the ...
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Karachi cuts port fees
Karachi Port Trust has reduced port fees by 20% as a means of attracting more customers. The port will now charge $2.34 per TEU and $0.14 for every non-containerised ton.
