World News – Page 495
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NewsTyne nurtures modal shift and lapwings
The Volkswagen Group has opened its new eco-friendly £ 5.6m Tyne Distribution Centre. The 20-hectare car import facility at Maritime Park, North Shields, is a secure storage compound accommodating up to 8,000 cars. Approximately 60,000 cars will pass through the port in 2004. 200 people have worked on the site, ...
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Africans need to upgrade port security
Ferdinand Gauze, president of the Port Management Association of West and Central Africa, has called upon member states to make a collective effort to fight terrorism and implement the new International Port & Ship facility code.
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NewsFeinstein concerned over uranium shipment
" I think this is a case in point which established the soft underbelly of national security and homeland defence in the United States, " Californian democratic senator, Dianne Feinstein stated recently.
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APM leases Shanghai berths
APM Terminals has leased six berths at Shanghai''s Waigaoqiao Container Terminal complex for a period of 50 years from Shanghai Port Container Company.
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NewsForth Ports weighs up MDHC
The Scotsman has reported that Forth Ports is mulling a takeover approach to Mersey Docks and Harbour Company to create a £ 500m port and property giant.
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Chittagong to get gantries
Construction of Chittagong''s New Moorings container terminal is due to start this year and be completed by December 2005.
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NewsConstantza hopes for a smooth river
A quarter of all cargo handled each year in the Black Sea port of Constantza, or 10m tonnes, comes from inland shipping on the Danube. With the first stage of a new container terminal opening this year, the Romanian port is hoping for stability on that waterway.
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Pre-feasibility study for new Panama Canal in October
Consultants Parsons Brinkerhoff International and Montgomery Watson-Harza are due to present a prefeasibility study for the Panama Canal expansion project this month with final studies then to be undertaken in 2004. The new Canal project is being driven by the ever-expanding size of the world' s maritime fleet, of which ...
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Asia: 'The way forward'
A study into the drastic fall in infrastructure investment in Asia since the currency crisis of 1997 has been initiated by the region''s three major development financial institutions. Both public and private sector financing for infrastructure have fallen despite the huge need for infrastructure development in the Asia-Pacific region and ...
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NewsGPA reports growth at both ports
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has announced a $110m project at Savannah that will expand the capacity of the Garden City Terminal by 20% increasing what is already claimed to be the largest single terminal container facility on the coast between Maine and Texas.
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NewsEvergreen gets new Tacoma terminal
The port of Tacoma has awarded the largest single capital improvement contract in its history. ICON Materials, the low bidder, will manage construction of a new container terminal for Evergreen America Inc.
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Copersucar expands capacity at Santos
The Brazilian Copersucar Co-operative has revealed plans to continue adding to its capacity at the port of Santos where it operates the Copersucar Sugar Terminal (TAC). A new 110,000-tonne dual-cell silo is to be developed out of the existing XI storage area, which will allow the company to simultaneously handle ...
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Confusion in Qingdao
Qingdao Port Authority (QPA) has confirmed its decision to award a major expansion contract, Qianwan Phase IV, to a consortium after the same project was apparently awarded to CSX World Terminals by the Qingdao municipal government.
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NewsIndia adds terminal capacity
P& O Ports will not be interested in a new container terminal development at the Indian port of Hazira, which it says is " not a viable site" given adverse tidal and weather conditions. The company reports that it had looked three times at Hazira before rejecting it. To give ...
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ICTSI tipped for Port of Spain
Reports from Trinidad indicate that International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has secured the container handling concession at Port of Spain.
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PSA out-manoeuvred in Shanghai..
Confusion surrounds the $12.07bn development of a new 54-berth deep-water port on Yangshan Island, which will be connected to Shanghai via a new 30km bridge.
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JNPT backtracks on MGT
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has dropped proposals to adopt the Minimum Guaranteed Throughput (MGT) formula as part of bid conditions linked to the construction of the third container terminal.
