World News – Page 462
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Gwadar seaport to open in June
Work has already begun on the $24 million third phase programme; phase one cost $30 million and phase two $17 million.Pakistan has revealed that its new Gwadar deep seaport should become operational in June. There are already in place facilities for handling containers, general cargo and dry bulk. The port, ...
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..BOT BOX SCHEME
Qasim has also issued a call for expressions of interest to build a second container terminal on a BOT basis.
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Savannah growth
The Port of Savannah handled 173,415TEU in the month of April 2006, a 12.7 per cent increase over the same period last year.
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NewsCartagena seeking regional hub status
The Colombian port of Cartagena handled 549,860TEU last year and is anticipating growth in 2006 of more than 150,000 additional containers. This is due to the arrival, in March, of a new Asia-Caribbean service operated by Maersk with 5,000TEU vessels.
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NewsSantos develops huge expansion programme . . .
Santos Port Authority (Codesp) is to develop a major new operating area at Barnabe Bagre as a public-private partnership in tandem with the Federal Government. This will expand this particular zone of the port to 6 million square metres incorporating no fewer than 50 berths.
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. . . and operators add equipment
The main container terminals at the port of Santos intend to increase their productivity this year through the purchase of new cranes financed through tax breaks made available by the government.
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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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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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PSA BOND ISSUE
Part of the Port of Singapore Authority''s recent purchase of a stake in Hutchison Ports (see International Terminal Operator story this issue) is to be financed by an offshore bond.
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HAMBURG'S WOMEN GET TO WORK
The Hamburg stevedore HHLA is training its first female port workers. After six months'' training, the women will take up positions in Hamburg container terminal Burchardkai as gantry crane operators and van drivers, and will be followed by more female workers at new terminal Alternwerder.
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SETUBAL CONTINUES INVESTMENT
It will be capable of handling 9m tonnes of cargo annually, although this will be extended to 15m tonnes depending on demand. The port authority of Setubal & Sesimbra in Portugal is to invest ?7.9m on various projects in 2006. Some of this money will be spent on refurbishing the ...
