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Port of Melbourne leased

News19 Sep 2016

The Australian State of Victoria's Andrews Labour Government has leased the Port of Melbourne for more than A$9.7B, in line with an election...

Oz ports’ returns poor

News25 Jul 2012

An Infrastructure Australia (IA) report has raised questions about the capacity of the nation’s ports to fund expansion projects....

Melbourne and Sydney show way to recovery

News1 Apr 2010

February figures for Australia’s two leading container ports show the national economy has bounced back sharply from 2008-09 lows....

PD Ports plc up for sale

News17 Mar 2009

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure has hired Royal Bank of Scotland and Dresdner Kleinwort to sell UK ports operator PD Ports...

Sydney budget boost

News1 Jul 2003

Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC)’s battle to keep the neighbouring ports of Newcastle and Port Kembla from poaching its container traffic ha...

Oz box volumes on the up

News15 Oct 2002

Box volumes at Australia's five mainland container ports were 10 percent higher in the six months January-June 2002 compared to the same per...

Sydney recovers

News1 Jul 2002

Sydney has again passed the 1 mill TEU per annum mark, with preliminary 2001-2002 figures showing last year's post-Olympic Games hangover ha...

…big bucks for WA ports

News1 May 2002

The Western Australian government is pouring big money into the state's port infrastructure, highlighted by a A$100 mill commitment to deepe...

Reform hitman goes as productivity keeps rising

News20 Jul 2001

The politician credited with kicking Australia's container terminal performance into the real world, former Workplace Relations Minister Pet...

Trade records down under

News1 Feb 2001

The Ports Corporation of South Australia, which is in the process of being privatised by the state government, has reported new tonnage reco...

Container terminal productivity on the up

News1 Oct 2000

After an excruciating period of going backwards, container terminal productivity in Australian ports is finally maintaining an upward trend,...

Botany rail rise

News1 Aug 2000

Despite well-catalogued operational and capacity difficulties, a record 190,000 TEU was moved by rail through Sydney's Port Botany in the ye...

SA to split port land, business

News1 Jun 2000

More than a year after the South Australian government decided to proceed with a trade sale of Ports Corp SA (see WorldCargo News, May 1999,...

NW Oz boom continues

News1 May 2000

Ports in the north west of Western Australia are looking forward to a period of major expansion as a number of significant resource projects...

Records all round

News1 May 2000

Most Queensland ports set new throughput records during the 1998-99 financial year, according to the recently released government publicatio...

Infratil to bid for Adelaide

News1 Sep 1999

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Port of Melbourne leased

Oz ports’ returns poor

Melbourne and Sydney show way to recovery

PD Ports plc up for sale

Sydney budget boost

Oz box volumes on the up

Sydney recovers

…big bucks for WA ports

Reform hitman goes as productivity keeps rising

Trade records down under

Container terminal productivity on the up

Botany rail rise

SA to split port land, business

NW Oz boom continues

Records all round

Infratil to bid for Adelaide

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Heavy transport vessel runs aground off Taiwan

Valencia resumes operations in aftermath of deadly flooding in Eastern Spain

Gemini network rollout to take 13 weeks, says Maersk CEO

First ship-to-ship methanol bunkering for South Korea

Britain shifts radically to a tax and spend economy

Port of Melbourne leased

Oz ports’ returns poor

Melbourne and Sydney show way to recovery

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Heavy transport vessel runs aground off Taiwan

Valencia resumes operations in aftermath of deadly flooding in Eastern Spain

Gemini network rollout to take 13 weeks, says Maersk CEO

First ship-to-ship methanol bunkering for South Korea

Britain shifts radically to a tax and spend economy

Winners of US$ 2.9b Clean Ports Program announced

Port of Montreal longshore workers target Termont in latest strike round

APM Terminals Maasvlakte II orders up to 71 Lift AGVs from Konecranes

Montreal port labour dispute continues with new strike

Higher order intake in port solutions boosts Konecranes’ Q3 profit