World News – Page 491
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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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NewsBox Terminal Expansion A Response to China Trade
Whilst the leader in Canada''s box boom is the West Coast''s Vancouver, other ports are rising quickly through the ranks, as Michael Rosenfeld reports.
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Transisthmus corridor planned
Coatzacoalcos port in the central-eastern state of Veracruz and the Pacific coast port of Salina Cruz are contemplating a joint concession to run their respective container terminals. Salina Cruz lost its container traffic in 2003, because of its infrastructure limitations; the former terminal covered just 65,000 sq metres, although existing ...
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NewsMexicans prepare for major developments
Mexico''s transport ministry plans to coordinate investment of US$666m in the country''s 16 ports. Of this, US$479m will be privatesector investment and the rest raised from public sources and invested by the port authorities. Altamira, with a total investment of US$322m, will be the main beneficiary scooping 48.4% of the ...
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Ensenada to implement intermodal corridor..
The Mexican port of Ensenada is to invest US$10.41m on infrastructure in putting into operation an intermodal corridor aimed at container traffic moving to and from the centre of Mexico and the US.
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..and Veracruz reactivates..
Veracruz, Mexico''s largest port in the Gulf of Mexico, is to reactivate the concession process covering three terminals, following an examination by the country''s antitrust authorities. The process began in November last year when one minerals terminal and another handling vehicles were offered as 15-year concessions with an option to ...
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..while Tamaulipas state to upgrade El Mezquital...
In keeping with the rest of North Africa, the two Spanish Moroccan enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta believe that there is still money is to be made from developing major container transhipment hubs. However, their desire to break into this market is being driven by other factors, too.Mexico's northern state ...
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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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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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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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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.
