World News – Page 331
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Cold ironing comes to Vancouver
Vancouver has become the third world port to introduce cold-ironing, which allows berthed vessels to make use of mains power supply when in port.
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Maersk invests in Luanda
Maersk Angola is to invest $95m in the construction of a second line terminal in Luanda as a means of improving the overall port infrastructure. Investment would be carried forward in stages. The need for the terminal has been justified on grounds that it will make operations run smoothly and ...
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Tianjin posts loss
Tianjin Port Development ended the first half of 2009 with a net loss of $2m. Container traffic handled by the company was down by 6.7% and bulk by 8.4%. Revenue reached $83m compared with $91m the previous year.
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PSA issues bonds
PSA International aims to raise $500m through a bond issue, being arranged by JP Morgan, Nomura International and DBS Bank.
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Burgos cuts a fifth of its workforce
The Bulgaria port of Burgas is to make 20% of its workers redundant as a result of the economic crisis. This will mean that 275 employees out of a total of 1,300 will lose their jobs. Older workers and pensioners will be shed first, with others released on a rolling ...
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Victoria unveils state port plans
The Australian state of Victoria has launched a new state port plan which merges the Melbourne and Hastings port authorities and outlines future developments for Hastings and Geelong.
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Talking up Punta Colonet
Despite an effective suspension on the development of the Punta Colonet mega-port project in Mexico since April, the head of the Ministry of Communications and Transport, Juan Molinar Horcasitas, announced in August that the project is still effectively live.
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Box recovery signs at Marseilles
Marseilles Fos registered a slight 4% increase in container traffic for the first eight months of the year, buoyed by a 23% rise in traffic at its deepsea Fos terminal.
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NewsPD Ports gets down to study
PD Ports has teamed up with the UK''s Teesside University to launch a Foundation Degree for port industry workers.
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Puerto Rico
Concessioning of Puerto Rico''s Las Americas port (PLA) will go ahead, law firm Mayer Brown partner Joseph Seligman has said.
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NewsUS traffic down to 2002 levels
Figures released in the US suggest that the country''s ports will handle 12.3m teu in 2009, equivalent to an 18.8% year-on-year drop - the fewest containers handled since 2002.
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Brisbane ups fees
Brisbane has raised wharfage and harbour charges by 6% across the board, the first time in 27 years it has raised its fees. The increase reflects the cost of infrastructural investment and inflation. A new scale of charges for coal has not yet been detailed.
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Transnet's new COO
Transnet Port Terminals has appointed former general manager of sales, logistics and commercial, Nosipho Damasane, as the company''s new chief operating officer following Solly Letsoalo''s departure to the private sector.
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NewsAuckland Port holds surcharges
Ports of Auckland is to postpone its Fuel Adjustment Factor (FAF) surcharges until January 1 in recognition of the current "challenging trading environment".
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Portuguese port growth outstrips Spain's
Ports in Portugal have grown faster than those in Spain in spite of the recent economic crisis, according to Portuguese officials.
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Hull opens all-weather terminal
Associated British Ports'' Hull has converted its steel terminal to an all-weather 10,000 sq m terminal to store dry bulk materials, forest products and paper. It also continues to handle steel products.
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NewsAPMT opens Dubai office
Operator APM Terminals has inaugurated its regional head office in Dubai for its Africa, Middle East & Indian subcontinent region.
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NewsPort Authority of New York and New Jersey Completes Preliminary Study of Bayonne Bridge
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) has released results of a US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) analysis of the air-draft restricting Bayonne Bridge.
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NewsIndia investing $4bn in ports
India''s Ministry of Shipping is to award contracts for 28 projects worth $4.11bn in 2009-10.
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NewsBrazil ports
Brazil''s Oderbrecht, an engineering and construction company, in partnership with Dubai-based ports operator DP World, has acquired a majority stake in a Brazilian port, Empresa Brasileira de Terminais Portuarios (Embraport) in Santos City, Sao Paulos state, media reports have said.
