SpillTech AS, a Norwegian company developing environmental technology products, offers a new solution for collecting waste from the water surface in the ports, writes GreenPort. PortBin is based on a customised oil spill technology and works as a weir-type skimmer for floating garbage in ports’ “trash coves”. It creates a suction on the surface that […]
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi inaugurated the country’s first dedicated coal, clinker and cement terminal at Port Qasim on October 14, informs local media. At the official ceremony, Prime Minister said that the state-of-the-art facility would facilitate cement and clinker exports. Pakistan International Bulk Terminal (PIBT) was commissioned in early May this year and has […]
By the afternoon of 12 October, 95% of the total Durban Port area had been declared safe for navigation of vessels, but sounding surveys were still in progress along the C-Shed area and vessel movement was still suspended in that area, informs Durban’s daily The Mercury quoting Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), which manages the […]
The construction of the Anaklia port in Georgia will commence at the end of December 2017, informs Georgia’s Commersant quoting Zurab Alavidze, the Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure. “The construction of this port will enable us to use our transit potential completely. The Government is involved in the process because this is a public-private […]
The government of Kenya signed a loan agreement with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for a loan of Sh35 bln (approx. USD 340 mln) for construction of Phase II of the second container terminal at the port of Mombasa, informs Construction Business Review. According to the Kenya Ports Authority managing director Catherine Mturi-Wairi, the […]
P&O Ports, a subsidiary of Dubai government’s Ports, Customs and Free Zones Corporation (PCFC), will start operating the container terminal in the Port of Sète in the south of France in early 2018, writes GulfNews. Earlier, in July, P&O Ports won a three-year management contract to operate the port’s container terminal with a draft of […]
Paceco España, Spain’s leading provider of container handling equipment, has recently been appointed once again by PSA Sines to design, construct and assemble an STS Portainer Malaccamax crane for the expansion of its container terminal. With an outreach of 70m for 24 rows of containers and a height under spreader of 48 m, it is […]
DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem is proceeding with his annual tour around West and North Africa calling at existing DP World facilities and meeting heads of the states and business leaders to explore trade links and solutions connecting Africa to the world, informs the company. Thus, Mr. Bin Sulayem met […]
Last Sunday, 1 October 2017, Catalonia held its controversial independence referendum, strongly opposed by the Spanish government but showing the majority of voters (90%) in favor of independence, although with just 42% of voter turnout. And while political analysts are now questioning what will happen next, let us dwell on the major implications of the […]
The Hambantota Port Development, a China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPort) project on the southeast coast of Sri Lanka, has stalled at the Framework Agreement stage, reports Sri Lankan News First. According to the report, the Chinese Ambassador Yi Xianliang said “No progress” when questioned yesterday, October 1, on the completion dates of the project. The […]
