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NZ ports still uncertain Financial year results for New Zealand's Auckland and Tauranga show accelerating recovery from the effects of the global financial crisis, but neither port is entirely confident the worst is over. More Court backs Los Angeles CTP The port's Clean Truck Program has been cleared by the US District Court of California More New study into Nacala The government of Japan is to fund a two-year study into the modernisation of the port of Nacala in Nampula Province in northern Mozambique More Funding lined up for Sao Tome The French consortium with a concession to develop a new deep water port on Sao Tome is expected to announce shortly that it has secured funding for the project More Iron ore via the Northern Sea NORDIC BARENTS, a modern heavy (1A) ice-class ship operated by Denmark's Nordic Bulk Carriers (NBC), is set to become the first non-Russian flag bulker to ply the Northern Sea Route More Teesport's shortsea investment PD Ports has announced that it will invest up to GBP29M to expand its shortsea container terminal at Teesport in the UK. Initially, GBP15M will be committed to increase annual capacity from 235,000 TEU to 450,000 TEU. More Manitex enters port equipment market US-based Manitex International, Inc, a specialist provider of boom trucks, RT cranes and FLTs, has gained a European foothold and some complementary products by agreeing to operate the CVS Ferrari SpA container handling business. More Container handling at sea The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Virginia has successfully completed "multiphase testing" of its Large Vessel Interface Lift On/ Lift Off (LVI Lo/Lo) Crane technology demonstrator. More SBB Cargo/Hupac link up In a reversal of the trend for leading UIRR and other intermodal operators to be taken over by national rail companies (eg Kombiverkeher/ DB, Novatrans/SNCF), Swiss-based Hupac, Europe's second biggest UIRR company, is to take a share in the financially-troubled Swiss national rail company SBB Cargo. More Private PICT Captain Z I Awan, chief executive officer of Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT), has drawn our attention to an error in the story "Work begins on Pakistan deepwater terminal" in the April 2010 issue of WorldCargo News (p40). More Sydney boxes still strong Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC) is experiencing continued container trade growth, with year-to-date volumes to the end of May reaching 1.755M TEU, up 5.6% on the same period last year. More Upgrade for Shuifu Shuifu on the Jinsha River in Yunnan Province, the furthest upstream port on the Yangtze trunk line, restarted operations on June 25 after three years of reconstruction. More New terminal for Tanzania The government of Tanzania has sanctioned the construction of a second container terminal at Dar es Salaam. More Melbourne-Hastings merger derailed... Plans to merge the administration of the Port of Hastings into the Port of Melbourne Corporation (see WorldCargo News September 2009, p44) have been thwarted after enabling legislation was blocked in the Upper House of the Victorian state Parliament. More Lower Chinese volumes signal trade slowdown? Though throughout is still running well ahead of 2009 levels, some analysts foresee a slowdown in global container trade after China's two biggest ports, Shanghai and Shenzhen, posted lower volumes for June compared with the month before. More New lightweight sidedoor container from Oz Australia-based transport equipment supplier SCF Group has unveiled a new 40ft sidedoor container that features moulded plastic bi-fold doors that are light and durable and provide easy access to the container. More Nordossola launches intermodal service A new intermodal connection between northern Italy and Germany will be introduced in September by Nordossola, a new name in the European intermodal rail industry. More ...ANL slams Webb rethink ANL Container Line managing director John Lines has come out swinging against the Victorian government's decision to look again at "new ways to expand container capacity at the port of Melbourne" (see World Cargo News June 2010 p10). More APMT/CMA CGM in "swap" deal APM Terminals (APMT) is ceding its share in Nord France Terminal International (NFTI) in Dunkirk to CMA CGM's affiliate Terminal-Link, while Terminal-Link is transferring its share in Mobile Container Terminal (MCT) to APMT. More New solution for garments DB Schenker Logistics has developed a new palletised, collapsible cardboard box for the transport of clothing suspended from garment hangers, which can be folded for return transport in standard dry freight containers and reused up to five times. More Rotor blade chassis from Nooteboom Wind turbine transport operator Ter Linden Transport has ordered several type TELE-PX Super Wing Carrier trailers from Netherlands-based Nooteboom Trailers, for transporting wind turbine rotor blades up to 60m long. More Nicaraguan port law imminent A bill to create a new general port law has been sent to the Nicaraguan Congress's Infrastructure and Public Services Committee for consultation. More New rolling motorway? Algeciras Bay Port Authority, Renfe, Andalusia Ports Agency, Cimalsa (a company working for the Catalan government) and France-based Lorry Rail, which operates the autoroute ferroviaire service between Perpignan, close to the Spanish border, and Luxembourg, have signed a mutual collaboration agreement to analyse the viability of introducing an Iberian rolling motorway. More Private port for Costa Rica? Americas Gateway Development Corporation (Amega), a Costa Rican company, is to begin a feasibility study for a new contaiuner handling facility at Moin Port. More  Special Reports China Logistics Development Report 2010 As the global financial crisis of the developed world led China's export-oriented economy to slow, the logistics sector still retained impressive growth figures - overall industry value reached CNY 95 trillion in 2009 - a rise of almost 5 percent. The China Logistics Development Report 2010, produced by China Intelligence Online, contains data, information and analysis essential for a thorough understanding of the world's most dynamic logistics market. For further information click here. WorldCargo News readers will benefit from a 20% discount from the full price. To order please contact wcn@chinaintelligenceonline.com 2008/9 ICT Report The new, up-dated and expanded WorldCargo News report on ICT in cargo handling and port management covers latest news and development from this fast-moving sector. Taken from WCN coverage 2008/9.. Click here for details... Container Terminal Planning - A Theoretical Approach A major study by Dr Itsuro Watanabe (Container System Technology). This comprehensive 245 page study is an in-depth analysis of capacity constraints, productivity, selectivity and flexibility of different container handling systems in terminals of different types and sizes: common-users or dedicated; hub centre (transshipment and/or relay) or import/export vocation; gateway or feeder port; intermodal rail or truck distribution inland; with or without CFS, etc. Click here for details...  Feature articles Deepsea bananas Maersk Line has successfully carried out a trial shipment of bananas from Davao in the Philippines to Rotterdam in the Netherlands using reefer containers equipped with a new controlled atmosphere (CA) system developed by Maersk Container Industri (MCI)'s Star Cool division. More Designing a safe connection Safe reefer operations require a receptacle system that exceeds minimum standards in electrical codes. More Reefer manufacturers regain lost ground After dipping significantly last year, integral reefer production has picked up in the first half of 2010 and manufacturers expect to be even busier in the coming months. More Klinge unveils new reefer for dangerous goods US-based Klinge Corporation has unveiled its new Model PFR-582Ex redundant container refrigeration unit, which, it says, provides complete protection for hazardous materials whilst offering a large cargo volume within a 20ft insulated container thanks to an overall machinery depth of just 365mm within a picture frame design. More Hybrid RTGs gaining ground Hybrid drives are gaining acceptance with RTG operators, but in the final analysis they need to reduce idling time and increase utilisation to maximise fuel savings. More New forces arise in the Med After rapid growth over the past year, Morocco's Tanger Mediterranee (Tanger Med) project remains on course to become a leading hub in the Western Mediterranean. More Towards vanishing point The latest US Class 8 trucks point to the future of non-road mobile machinery engines. More Box lessors bouncing back Though things are not yet back to pre-financial crisis levels, they are getting there - at least as far as the container leasing sector is concerned. More Lomonosov back on track With Russian container throughput rising again, MSC has put the Lomonosov terminal project back on the agenda. More Sydney still seeking landside relief Australia's number two containerport is still grappling with ways to keep landside container logistics performance at levels that ensure maximum efficiency but don't draw community ire. Industry is not necessarily impressed with the initiatives, however. More ...and zero emission terminals The goal of a zero emissions terminals, like that of a zero emissions ship, may prove unattainable. But zero emissions is not a "zero sum" game. Every time you make progress towards the goal, you are in a better place than the one you started from. More APMT calls for scaled back TOS APM Terminals (APMT) recently announced an initiative to standardise equipment and systems at its terminals where it will develop common specifications and standards and then identify competing vendors for individual products. More Insurers welcome drop in marine casualties Marine insurers have been welcoming early signs of a reversal in casualty experience as shipping operations continue to be impacted by the dramatic downturn in global trade volumes and freight markets. More Options keep coming for electrification of RTGs Cable chains, "drive-in" conductor rails, overhead pantograph systems and medium voltage power cables are all on the list of options for electrifying RTGs. More Towards zero emissions shipping... Alternative fuels, renewable energy, more efficient propulsion systems and hull forms, and slow steaming, are all in the mix. More What future for JWP Wilhlemshaven? Maersk has called for JadeWeser-Port to be deferred for 2-3 years. More Liebherr supercharges crane performance Liebherr Werk-Nenzing has developed the "Pactronic" hydraulic hybrid system that, it claims, effectively doubles hoist power to boost productivity while reducing fuel consumption and emissions by 30%. More Low throughput's high expectations Over the past 20 years and more, the focus of attention in container handling has tended to be on sophisticated solutions in a drive to reduce overall unit costs. More Automation out of the box Zebra Enterprise Solutions (ZES) is implementing its Navis SPARCS N4 ASC Manager for the next automated terminal at Busan Newport in Korea. Busan Newport Container Terminal (BNCT) will have 38 automated stacking cranes (ASCs) with ABB drive and automation systems when it opens late next year. More PSA misses Flushing deadline It looks as though PSA in Belgium (formerly PSA-HesseNoordNatie or PSA-HNN) has pulled out of the 2M TEU/year deepwater Westerschelde Container Terminal (WCT) project in Vlissingen (Flushing). A local newspaper, Zeeland Provincial Courant, has revealed that PSA failed to meet the May 1 deadline set for submissions by the port authority, Zeeland Seaports (ZP). More All contents © WCN Publishing, Northbank House, 5 Bridge Street, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 8BL, England.