World News – Page 342
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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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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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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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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.
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Valencia now largest Mediterranean box port
The Spanish port of Valencia is now the fifth largest in Europe in terms of containers.
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NZL claim heads to court
Port of Tauranga has lodged declaratory judgement proceedings in the New Zealand High Court in an attempt to resolve the terminal dispute with NZL Group.
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NewsGulf investment becomes unsure
Declining oil revenues and the current economic downturn could put at risk $40bn of investment planned in ports and terminals across the Gulf region.
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NewsAttempts being made to halt LLX development
The Federal Public Ministry in Campos dos Goytacazes has put forward a legal injunction to prevent LLX from continuing with construction of a port complex at Aç u on the northern coast of Rio de Janeiro state.
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NewsIndonesian ports court private investment
Indonesian state port operator, Pelindo I, has signed partnership agreements with 11 private-sector companies to develop logistics and ports business in the west of the country worth $500m over the next five years.
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Sea motorway services to connect Spain and Italy
The Transport Ministers of Italy and Spain have signed an agreement to develop sea motorway services between the two countries.
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NewsNo real change at DP World
It''s ''business as usual'' at port conglomerate DP World despite declining volumes on the back of the financial crisis, in contrast to the euphoric years of 2007 and 2008.
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NewsNew decree could stunt new Brazilian development
Antaq, the Brazilian authority overseeing ports, has put forward a proposal that would fundamentally change legislation governing how private terminals handle third-party traffic.
