World News – Page 456
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NewsLPC opens vehicle terminal
New Zealand''s Lyttelton Port of Christchurch has opened a fully-sealed and secure facility to handle an import vehicle trade which has grown 31% over five years to an annual 53,450 units.
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Napier faces insulation bill
A Napier City Council hearing has decided the Port of Napier will have to pay to insulate nearby residents'' homes if operational sounds exceed toughened noise limits.
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Noumean deal struck
Mediterranean Shipping Company and Maersk Line have reached an agreement with the New Caledonia Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers over new services to the Port of Noumea.
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Otago gains second MSC call
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has recently added a fixed-day weekly call at Port Chalmers on its " Capricorn" service.
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Gisborne gains Asian service
Eastland Port has established its first-ever scheduled shipping connection to North Asia, following the recent commencement of a monthly Lodestar service.
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NewsWave beacon at Nelson
An advanced wind and wave informationgathering light beacon has been installed 4km outside Port Nelson''s shipping channel.
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NewsGet it where you can
Experience in the UK demonstrates that ports can pull significant business that never actually goes over their quays. Felicity Landon reports When is a port not a port? When it is a multimodal hub or a distribution centre? Or a reception, unpacking, repacking, storage, labelling and barcoding facility? While most ...
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NewsChinese container clusters planned
The Chinese Communications Minister Li Shenglin has revealed the government has a policy aimed at creating two new port ''clusters'' to add to the three existing ones centred on Shanghai, Shenzhen and Tianjin.
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ZAMBIA TO GET NAMIBIAN DRY PORT
APM Terminals, CMA-CGM, DP World, ETA, ICTS, Gammon Infrastructure, IL&FS, GVK, Soma Enterprises and Concor are all interested in bidding. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is to provide funding for a study to determine the location of a dry port in Namibia, which can be used by ...
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DAR CALL
APM Terminals, CMA-CGM, DP World, ETA, ICTS, Gammon Infrastructure, IL&FS, GVK, Soma Enterprises and Concor are all interested in bidding. The Government of Tanzania has called for expressions of interest in the operation of a seven-berth general cargo terminal in the Port of Dar es Salaam. Each of the seven ...
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NewsFeeder surcharge at Chittagong
Feeder vessel operators are threatening to slap a $130 surcharge on each TEU that they have to handle at the port of Chittagong unless congestion there decreases within the next month. At present, feeder lines such as QC Container, HRC Shipping, Orient Express, Advanced Container and Sea Consortium charge $300 ...
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SHIPPER ACTION
APM Terminals, CMA-CGM, DP World, ETA, ICTS, Gammon Infrastructure, IL&FS, GVK, Soma Enterprises and Concor are all interested in bidding. Indian shippers are hoping to employ new draft legislation, the Shipping and Trade Practices Act, to stop the current practice of lines collecting terminal handling charges.
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APAPA BULK TERMINALS NOW IN PRIVATE HANDS
Nigerian Flour Mills, which operates the Apapa Bulk Terminals ''A'' and ''B'', has spent ?24.5m on upgrading berths and other infrastructure awarded to it as part of the ports concession programme in Nigeria. These facilities are shortly to be linked to the Nigerian Railway network.
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DP World to invest $450m in Kochi
DP World is expected to issue a tender for the design of a $450m container terminal in the Indian port of Kochi, which is located in the southern state of Kerala.
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NewsHutch' for El Prat
After a rigorous concessioning exercise Hutchison/Tercat have triumphed in Barcelona After a rigorous concessioning exercise Hutchison Ports in conjunction with Tercat, hitherto the Port of Barcelona''s smaller container terminal operator, has been selected as the operator of the new container terminal facilities to be established at the El Prat Quay ...
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NewsBuilding Transhipment
The race is on in the Canary Islands to secure new container transhipment volumes. Alex Hughes reports
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NewsNigeria phase one privatisation complete
Arif Mohiuddin of CPCS Transcom charts the often rugged road to realising port privatisation in Nigeria
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I.T. HEADACHE
"The main problem in Italy is the lack of infrastructure and deficiencies in the rail network, " he said. "Some is very old.The end of May saw continuing computer problems at ECT resulting in the diversion of Grand Alliance vessels to local competitors. The Ceres Paragon Terminal in Amsterdam and ...
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NewsPort 2000 development now partially operational
At the beginning of April, Le Havre Port Authority inaugurated part of its planned Port 2000 development, which has cost ¢ 700m. This has 1.4km of quay line out of a possible future development encompassing four kilometres of berth.
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BCT ACQUIRES MHCS
Poland''s Baltic Container Terminal, which is operated by ICTSI, has placed an order with Kalmar for four mobile harbour cranes.
