World News – Page 407

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    Felixstowe

    2008-03-03T21:26:00Z

    Two ship-to-shore gantry cranes at Felixstowe''s Landguard Terminal ended up in a mangled heap on the quayside at the weekend after a ship delivering three new ship-to-shore cranes to the port broke loose from its moorings in high winds and crashed into them.

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    2008-03-03T21:26:00Z

    Mallam Abdusalam Mohammed, managing director of Nigerian Ports Authority, claims that the ports privatisation programme launched two years ago has been a success.

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    New port to take shape

    2008-03-03T21:26:00Z

    Work on new $62m Vietnam port jointly developed by forwarding company Gemadept (51%) and steel sheet manufacturer Hoa Sen Group (45%) is to start in April.

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    ICTSI enjoys healthy income

    2008-03-03T21:26:00Z

    Surging net profits for Philippines-based International Container Terminal Services Inc have cemented the port operator''s strong market position.

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    Tanzania opens eight ICDs

    2008-03-02T21:26:00Z

    Eight private companies in Tanzania have been licensed to operate inland container depots (ICDs) as a means of providing capacity relief for the container terminal at the port of Dar es Salaam.

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    Vietnam confident on 2008 port success

    2008-03-02T21:26:00Z

    The head of Vietnam's Maritime Administration believes that 2008 will be a banner year for the country's ports following an injection of investment capital.

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    EIB funds Rotterdam expansion

    2008-03-01T21:26:00Z

    The European Investment Bank has granted a ¢ 900m ($1.3bn) loan to the Port of Rotterdam to finance infrastructure expansion. The financing contract for the first ¢ 100m ($145m) has already been signed.

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    2008-03-01T21:26:00Z

    Ngai Tahu Property property development general manager Ian McNabb is to succeed Des Ashton as the chief executive of Port Marlborough and subsidiary company Sounds Property Holdings.

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    2008-02-29T21:26:00Z

    Reliance Transport has discontinued business with 30% of its customer base, citing driver shortages, rising costs, and hassles with Ports of Auckland''s vehicle booking system and empty container yard location.

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    Ten JVs in Longkou

    2008-02-29T16:33:00Z

    The Chinese port of Longkou has increased throughput in the last five years from 6.2m tonnes to 25m tonnes. Ten private investment and corporative agreements have been reached with more than 10 shareholders in areas such as containers, liquid and dry bulk.

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    2008-02-28T21:26:00Z

    Port of Napier and the Maritime Union of New Zealand have agreed the port company will retain the services of International Stevedoring Operations while allowing shipping lines to also use alternative stevedores.

  • Port Strategy: HPH seals its Brisbane concession
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    Hutchison Moves INto Brisbane

    2008-02-27T21:26:00Z

    A formal agreement has been signed by Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) to lease two new container berths (Berths 11 and 12) from the Port of Brisbane Corporation (PBC).

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    2008-02-27T21:26:00Z

    Plans for an A$1bn (US$896m) ocean terminal at Townsville have moved closer with the release of an environmental impact statement. The development includes construction of a terminal with international-standard cruiseship facilities, and residential and marina precincts. Construction could begin this year and be complete in 2010.

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    Kaohsiung commitment

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    Evergreen Marine Corp (Taiwan) has extended its lease on its Container Terminal No 4 facility (Piers 115 and 116) in the Port of Kaohsiung for a further 10 years to February 2018.

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    Africa

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    Ports across western and southern Africa are finally facing up to the reality of modernisation in order to function as effective cogs in what can be enormously long logistics chains, writes Alex Hughes

  • Port Strategy: Kalmar has secured a contract to maintain all of the rubber-tyred equipment operating at the Port of Durban's newest container facility, Pier 1 Container Terminal
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    Maputo

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    Maputo and Durban limber up for battle over lucrative southern African trade. Alex Hughes reports

  • Port Strategy: Ngqura, once fully operational, will take the pressure off Port Elizabeth
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    Transnet invests for the future

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    South Africa''s port controller Transnet has been pumping investment into a wide range of projects. Port Elizabeth, which can nowadays handle up to 500,000 teu annually, will soon be able to count on additional capacity at the neighbouring port of Ngqura, which serves the surrounding Coega industrial complex.

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    What price Maersk?

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    APM Terminals'' virtual monopoly of west African concessions - Apapa and Onne (Nigeria), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola) and Tema (Ghana) - has only been recently broken following the decision by Senegal to award DP World the container concession for Dakar.

  • Port Strategy: Reducing port-related truck traffic is a US priority
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    BARRY PARKER New initiatives in North American port funding

    2008-02-27T16:33:00Z

    Politicians are coming at the US congestion crisis from a number of angles. But will there be a workable solution offered asks Barry Parker

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    Kalmar Eastern coop

    2008-02-26T16:33:00Z

    Port equipment specialist Kalmar has confirmed an order from PSA Singapore Terminals for in excess of 200 terminal tractors to be delivered this year.