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Eight to bid for Khalifa

News1 Feb 2007

The government of Abu Dhabi is considering pre-qualification bids from eight consortia for the first of several large contracts for the Khal...

Seaport in Jeddah BOT deal

News1 Jan 2007

Saudi Trade and Export Development Company (Tusdeer) has formed a joint venture with Seaport Terminal of Malaysia to develop the third conta...

Gulftainer targets Kuwait terminal

News1 Nov 2006

Sharjah-based port operator Gulftainer will bid to operate the container terminal at Kuwait’s Shuwaikh port when the facility is offered f...

…Sohar on the blocks

News1 Aug 2006

The first berth of HPH’s container terminal at the Omani Port of Sohar will become operational next month. Terminal B was built and will b...

…Gwadar next?

News10 Jan 2006

DPW is the latest to approach the Gwadar Port Implementation Authority (GPIA), to secure the concession to operate the container terminal th...

APMT puts vacuum mooring to the test

News16 Dec 2005

Mooring Systems of New Zealand has installed two of its MoorMaster 400 shore-based 40,000 kg vacuum mooring stations at the Port of Salalah ...

HPH to run Oman container terminal

News16 Dec 2005

Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) of Hong Kong is forming a joint venture with the government of Oman and Dutch company C Steinweg Handelsveem t...

MSC to hub at Beirut

News19 Oct 2005

In what the Lebanon Daily Star says is the first deal of its kind in the country, MSC is to use the Port of Beirut as a regional transhipmen...

Work starts at Carmel

News19 Oct 2005

Construction work has begun on Israel’s Carmel Port, which will come under the administrative umbrella of Haifa Port Authority. The initia...

Giant Liebherrs for Khorfakkan

News1 May 2005

Liebherr Container Cranes has won a contract from Sharjah Ports Authority for four superpost-Panamax cranes for the Port of Khorfakkan, whic...

New top Gulf for chemicals

News1 Apr 2005

Delegates to the MariChem Middle East 2005 conference, held recently in Doha, heard that the Arabian Gulf will replace the US Gulf as the wo...

Bigger cranes, bigger transport problems

News1 Mar 2005

The sheer size of container cranes makes transporting them fully-erect more complex and calls for even more ingenious engineering solutions....

Israel port reform moves on

News1 Mar 2005

Last month the Israeli government pushed through its controversial ports privatisation policy, after a “last minute” agreement was reach...

A new kind of camel train

News1 Feb 2005

The promoters of the 1400 km long Saudi double-stack intermodal rail landbridge project, to connect Jeddah with Dammam and Jubail via Riyadh...

Iran-Syria port deal

News1 Aug 2004

Tehran and Damascus are on the verge of signing a deal that would enable Iranian private sector interests to take over a terminal at Syria�...

Israelis see Red

News1 Jun 2004

The Israeli authorities are considering a rail link between Eilat and Ashdod, thus creating an intermodal landbridge between the Mediterrane...