World News – Page 489
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Panama dusts off Rodman port project
The Secretariat of Ports wants these new concessions to be awarded as soon as possible so that existing terminal operators do not have to seek extensions to their existing contracts. In fact, attempts by Cargill to extend its existing concession at the end of last year were vetoed by the ...
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NEW SUGAR TERMINAL FOR BRAZIL
The Secretariat of Ports wants these new concessions to be awarded as soon as possible so that existing terminal operators do not have to seek extensions to their existing contracts. In fact, attempts by Cargill to extend its existing concession at the end of last year were vetoed by the ...
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NewsNew port at Uruguay's M'Bopicua
The new port of M''Bopicua was proposed in 2001 to provide access to the Atlantic.
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NewsEmerging ASEAN eye trade opportunities ANports
China''s burgeoning export presence may be of concern to many neighbouring East and Southeast Asian countries, but evidence is mounting that some secondary ports in the ASEAN region are finding opportunities to piggy-back their own trade expansion. Dave and Iain MacIntyre report.
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NewsPartnerships underpin Mayson’s Port Strategy
Dave Macintyre talks to Tauranga’s Jon Mayson about his passionate commitment to strategic cooperation and much else of value to publicly-owned ports and their prospective partners.
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Greatest Legacy will be MetroPort
Undoubtedly however, Mayson''s greatest legacy will be MetroPort. Commencing with 60TEU capacity trains, the initial weekend-only service handled 32,000 TEUs and processed 18,000 trucks in its first 12 months of operation.
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Development completed at Port of Tauranga
A US$2.1m upgrade of the MetroPort Auckland inland port operation, jointly run with Toll NZ, and numerous improvements at its Sulphur Point Container Terminal are understood to be delivering significant customer service and productivity benefits to the Port of Tauranga. The developments were required to enable the port company to ...
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NewsNorth seeks to ease Southern Discomfort
Depending on your point of view, PD Ports'' plan to introduce a Northern Gateway container port on the Tees would either ease the UK''s notorious southern port congestion, or - if you''re a supporter of any or all of the three southern container terminal projects aimed at solving the problem ...
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Chinese Bottlenecks persist
Impediments to the cargo pipeline performing well, from iron ore producer to steel manufacturer, are not all, about what is happening at the exporter end in Australia.
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NewsAnd elsewhere on the Subcontinent . . .
Perhaps in response to the possibility of Sethu becoming reality, by which Indian ports will attempt to lure significant amounts of cargo away from Colombo, the Sri Lanka Ports Authority has revealed that it is planning construction of four new container terminals at Colombo. The first phase of construction will ...
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NewsDemocracy in Action
Gavin van Marle spent several months roaming India recently. His report reveals how a stifling bureaucracy and genuine democracy form a two-edged sword in a country whose port sector is intent on progress.
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NewsAngolan Angst
Steve Cameron provides an update on the tortuous process of concessioning out terminal operations in Africa.
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GIJON BUILDS BULK CAPACITY..
Work has started on the ¢ 580m expansion of the port of Gijon, the primary aim of which is to add new capacity for coal and iron ore cargo flows.
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NewsMaersk will dominate Straits
By 2007, it is expected that Maersk will effectively control most of the traffic passing through ports around the Straits of Gibraltar due to its presence at Algeciras, Malaga and Tangier. The Danish company recently signed a 30year concession to build and manage the new TangierMediterranean port, which it will ...
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..AND LA CORUNA NEW PORT
Also in northern Spain, Dragados is heading up the consortium that is building the initial phases of the new port at La Coruna at a cost of € 429m.
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NewsPost-Panamax units planned for Gdynia
Speaking on the occasion of the delivery of a new Panamax dimension quayside container gantry to ICTSI''s Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in Gdynia, Tom Falknor, president, BCT, unveiled the terminal''s further plans: " Two post-Panamax cranes are to be purchased, " explained Falknor, " in order to meet terminal user ...
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AVEIRO TO INVEST IN DRY AND LIQUID BULK
The dominance of Maersk can be seen in figures released by Algeciras port authority covering January and February 2005 during which throughput at the port amounted to 501,514 TEUs. Portugal's fifth largest port, Aveiro, is to invest ¢21m this year to be spent partially on dredging and also on work ...
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NPA & BIDVEST AGREE TERMS
Following the renegotiation of leases with Unilever, Commercial Cold Storage and Agriport, South Africa''s National Ports Authority (NPA) has agreed terms with Bidvest for the consolidation of 42 leases into nine and has thereby opened the door for increased investment by Bidvest in its portside facilities.
