World News – Page 309
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NewsFloods force Brisbane port closure
The Port of Brisbane remained closed to shipping today as flood waters brought Australia’s Queensland State to a virtual standstill.
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NewsMarseilles Fos sees rise despite strikes
Cargo handled at Marseilles Fos reached 78.3 million tonnes to the end of November, pointing to an overall 3% rise on last year’s figures.
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NewsOptimism today - but wait to see follow up
Northern Europe''s 2010 performance gives cause for optimism, even though the coming year’s advances might have to wait a little, according to the latest Global Port Tracker for the region.
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NewsAustralian floods continue to hit coal ports
The Queensland floods, which in total have covered an area greater than France and Germany, continue to disrupt port operations.
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Buoying Sino-Australian relations
One of the ten agreements signed in June was a memorandum of understanding between China Development Bank and Aquila to explore development opportunities related to Aquila’s Queensland coal projects at Isaac Plains, Washpool and Eagle Down and Aquila’s West Pilbara iron ore project.
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NewsYangtze throughput rise
Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration show that throughput of general cargo via the major ports along the Yangtze trunk line has been growing substantially.
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NewsDP World sells off Aussie operations
DP World has sold a 75% stake in its Australian facilities, the majority of which is going to Citi Infrastructure Investors.
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NewsStudy shows Montreal is central to recovery
Montreal’s ability to emerge from recession has long been pointed to as a guide to what can be achieved from a downturn, but a global study has now outlined the port’s part in the picture.
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NewsPanama Canal dismisses WikiLeaks
The Panama Canal’s administration has dismissed the apparent doubt outlined by the “WikiLeaks” quotes on the Canal expansion’s viability.
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NewsContaining the ore outbreak
HFW''s Donny Low discusses developments in the Australian port scene
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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.
