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Associated British Ports (ABP) Port of Southampton has ordered two 63t HMK 170 E mobile harbour cranes from Gottwald Port Technology as part...

Santos plans ahead

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Land currently occupied by the Prainha and Conceiçãozinha favelas in Guarujá will not be cleared before 2010, according to the local mayo...

Sediment trap withstands storms

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Port Canaveral reports that its new US$2M sediment trap passed its first major storm test during Tropical Storms Fay and Hanna, intercepting...

SAL cancels type 179s

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Shipbuilder J J Sietas Werft and heavy lift shipping operator Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land GmbH & Co KG (SAL) have jointly announced that SA...

Hobart zinc rethink

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The Tasmanian port of Hobart may be the winner if a review by Belgian zinc refiner Nyrstar leads to consolidation of its Australian operatio...

Lobito to challenge Luanda

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The government of Angola has completed a study on the redevelopment of the port of Lobito, concluding that the project will require investme...

BLG interested in JWP phase 2

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Hillert Onnen, BLG’s Board member for finance, has stated that BLG is interested in running a future second phase of the new JadeWeserPort...

China’s Beibu Gulf ports to merge

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Three ports in China’s south west Guangxi province are to merge in a Yuan2.22B (US$324M) deal between Beihai Port Co (BPC) and Guangxi Bei...

Konecranes straddle carriers for IFB

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Konecranes has provided more information about the order it has received for nine straddle carriers from Belgian terminal operator and trans...

Norfolkline to add Rosyth link

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Following weeks of speculation, Norfolkline has confirmed that it will start a service in April 2009 between Zeebrugge and Rosyth, the link ...

Kiwi rail revamped

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Following the re-nationalisation of rail and ferry services, the New Zealand government has decided to place these businesses and its rail i...

Pakistan to extend box scanning

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Following its success at Port Qasim, US Customs officials are talking with the government of Pakistan to extent a pilot project for 100% scr...

EC comes to the rescue

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The European Commission has given the green light to continuing support from the French and Italian governments for the troubled Aiton (Lyon...

Outsize project cargo for OMG

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Oslo Marine Group (OMG)’s plans to expand the operation of its OMG Western Terminal in St Petersburg into a multi-functional general and c...

Colonet tender issued

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After years of political infighting, conflicts over land use, legal disputes, etc, a tender has finally been issued in respect of the constr...

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