Efficiency incentive

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India’s Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP), the regulatory authority for state-owned major ports, is to introduce a new scheme that w...

PTP on target

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In a statement PTP said that dredging and reclamation is nearing 75 percent completion. The dredging process will widen the port’s access ...

YICT Phase III in service

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The first berth of the Phase III Project at Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) officially came into operation on October 16 wi...

Upgrade for Aomi

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Hanjin Shipping of South Korea plans to replace one of two gantry cranes at its dedicated A3 berth at Tokyo’s Aomi Pier with two larger su...

New push for third Newcastle terminal

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More than three years after the last proposal for a third coal export terminal for Newcastle was abandoned, a new group has emerged with a A...

Seacom changes hands

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A 50:50 joint venture of Catracom in Belgium and Peinemann in Holland is taking over the com-plete industrial and marine trailer range from ...

Bad timing for Everett?

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The Port of Everett, Wa, now has two used Hitachi container cranes but its timing to take the “gift horses” from the Port of Seattle may...

Kenya rail hike

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The impact of increased charges at the Port of Mombasa (see p13) has been compounded by higher rail charges....

Steelbro launches 3-crane sidelifter

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Leading self-loading trailer (SLT) manufacturer Steelbro NZ Ltd has launched a new 3- crane version designed specifi-cally to deliver lightw...

New Mombasa charges under fire

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Kenya’s Inter-Governmental Committee on Shipping (ISCOS), which was set up to improve the performance of the shipping sector and to provid...

Hong Kong to lose box port crown

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Hong Kong will lose its crown as the world’s busiest container port to Shanghai or Shenzhen within five years, according to Erik Bøgh Chr...

More Pipavav for Maersk

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Maersk Sealand, which holds a 12 percent stake in Pipavav port on India’s west coast, is to raise its equity to 26 percent and inject a fu...

St Petersburg power struggle

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According to Andrey Kobzar, chairman of the board of Russia’s second largest seaport, St Petersburg (23.03 mill tonnes in 2002), Nasdor An...

MSC makes move in Genoa

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MSC has offically applied for a conces- sion at Genoa’s Terminal Multipurpose, which covers Libia and Canepa piers and the Derna dock betw...

Sydney boxed out

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The New South Wales Government has shocked the shipping industry with an announcement that all container trades in Sydney Harbour (Port Jack...

Port reform move in Oz

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The Victorian government in Australia has inaugurated the second phase of its over-haul of the state’s port system with the introduction t...

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