January/February 2015 Vol 60 No 1

Major port projects

Ports grow to match shipping’s evolution

Look down for efficiency
Hydrographics help marine traffic
Hydr

Engineering change
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Women graduates go to sea

Going for gas
Ports prepare for LNG bunkering

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Comment: Looking ahead – SG Naruse highlights whatmembers may expect3
News: Kitakyushu signs up to Green Awards; Doraleh getsgoing; South Africa and Kenya sign MoU; White Bay Cruise
Terminal wins award; Tianjin port offers shore power; and4much more

Open Forum: Singapore sLiNG – John Ng, CEO of
Singapore LNG Corporation, gives his take on how its

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terminal will realise the city-state’s LNG hub ambitions

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Maritime Update: Patterns of piracy and armed
robbery; weighing up the costs of compliance; SOHAR
offers STS LNG services; violence against ships far from over;32

Shipping cuts piracy roots with e-learning centre

IAPH Info: 29th World Ports conference; IAPH regional
meeting in Africa; Women’s Forum with Geraldine Knatz; IAPH

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president at AAPA; visitors; IAPH scholarship; Diary

Last Word: Taking advantage of challenges – by Gene
Seroka, executive director at the Port of Los Angeles
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Cover Stories: LNG Baltic bunkering: Mike Jones looks
at how the Baltic is supporting the use of LNG bunkers;
LNG hotspots – by Veronika Farkas; US perspective: John
Gallagher reports that ports are rushing to meet LNG
demand; Hamburg barge lights up cruise industry, reports
Mike Jones

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Outlook 2015: Aligning ports with shipping

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Baltic bunkering – past,present and proposed
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evolution – P&H considers the drivers for six significant port

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developments from across the globe

Theme: Hydrographics: US hydrographics –NOAA hydrographic surveys make ports safer as vessel,
traffic intensifies says John Gallagher; Silent achievers – Zoe

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Reynolds reports on the navy hydrographers pioneering safe

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passage through the Great Barrier Reef

Topical: River port revamp – Scott Berman shows
how investment in cargo diversity at America’s Central
Port pays off; Get the bigger picture – Stephen Cousins
highlights PIANC’s report on advance masterplanning;
Women in maritime engineering – Adam Pitt reports on two
International Maritime College Oman graduates blazing a
trail for women’s education in the Middle East; Nicaragua’s

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grand plan – its canal scheme could be a bonanza forcontractors, writes Greg Miller

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March/April 2015 Vol 60 No 2

Asia Pacific focus

Expansions, upgrades and new ports

Controlling traffic

Vessel traffic management systems in action

Earthquake alert!
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Practising for disasters

Port planning
Placing the pieces for profitability and efficiency

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RegularsComment: Fighting disasters – SG Naruse highlights

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what ports can do to fight back

News: Panama plots new transhipment hub; Morereclamation for Pulau Tekong; Rail and port logistics
companies to focus on LNG; Port Klang hosts “world’s largest”;

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plus much more…

Open Forum: Dialogue key to good civic relations, byCarla Jong, project manager for Amsterdam’s spatial planning8

and environment cluster

Maritime Update: Chittagong earns unwanted title

10of top for piracy growth; Liner companies query ENS filingproposal; ILO considers e-passports for seafarers; African
Union discusses maritime crime; and more…

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IAPH Info: Be a smartPORT - don’t miss out; Women’s
Forum with Ayesha Hassan AbdulRahman Al Marzooqi;
entries close for 2015 IAPH Awards; members’ news – New
Priok Terminal; membership notes; diary36

Last Word: Mitigating terminal gate congestion throughsmart solutions, by Masaharu Shinohara, executive officer of
Kobe-Osaka International Port Corporation

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Theme: APAC regional focus
Stimulating growth – Titus Zheng considers the port
development boom in Malaysia as it seeks long term growthand competitiveness10

East Asian countries are redeveloping ports for publicbenefit – Moyoun Jin reports how South Korea andJapan are incorporating residents’ needs into their

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Antwerp and Damietta
demonstrate the visionneeded for port growth
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redevelopment projects

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China ports still expanding – in the face of aslowdown in throughput growth, Dexter Yan
finds some Chinese ports less cautious than others about new
developments;

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Seabed keepers - hydrographers work round the clock using
cutting edge technology to ensure safe shipping in ports andharbours, Zoe Reynolds reports
Qindao quits joint venture – Dexter Yan reports on thereasons for its exit

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Cover story: Port design and planning
Cargo crosses the Scheldt: space constraints on the rightbank have forced the Port of Antwerp to expand across theriver, reports Jem Newton

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Modernising Damietta: Egypt is banking on a brightMarch/April 2015
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economic future by investing in its key Mediterranean cargoport, reports Shem Oirere

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May/June 2015 Vol 60 No 3

TEN-T connections
New money for three ports

African ports

How oil prices are affecting East vs West

Rivalry continues
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Charleston and Savannah expansions

Megaships

Can Europe cope with increasingly larger vessels?
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Comment: Make history – join SG Naruse at the 29th
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World Ports conference in Hamburg in June

News: Mumbai Port offers land for waterfront ship repair
yard; India steps up its Sri Lankan presence; Australia could
ban ships; US west coast ports clear out; plus port updates

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Open forum: Reliability, efficiency, connectivity –Carlos Urriola and Stacy Hatfield of Manzanillo International

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Terminal explain Panamanian ports’ high rankings

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Maritime update: Gothenburg sulphur emissions
drop; piracy trends; ports fall short on cyber attack
protection; US wrestles with ECA rules; the latest to sign up to
the 2007 Convention on the Removal of Wrecks

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IAPH info: It’s here at last! All you need to know about
the 29th World Ports Conference; Women’s Forum with Anne
Sigrid Hamran; membership notes; election results; diary 44

Last word: Jens Meier, chairman of the management
board at Hamburg Port Authority, on its smartPORT

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Cover stories: EMEA regional focus

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A look at three of therecipients of TEN-T
fundingIllustration: Shutterstock

Focus on three ports receiving TEN-T funding

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Oil impact on east and west African ports

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Theme: Dredging & contaminated sediment
Deep in the southeast USA

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Expertise ensures success at the Port of Southampton

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Three harbour projects in Scandinavia and France

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Topical:Urgent dredging maintains a conduit to Lamma

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Pump up the volume at Brazil’s Suape27

Modernising Moín in Costa Rica

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Coming in June – the 40th TOC Europe, in Rotterdam

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The next best port? Subic Bay as an alternative to Manila 36
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Port efficiency in global trade – limiting factors explored38

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July/August 2015 Vol 60 No 4

Port automation
Singapore goes 4G
US gate appointments
Marrying safety & efficiency
Five challenges for ports
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Hamburg shows its

SMARTshosting the 2015 IAPH conference

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Comments: Thinking bigger – SG Naruse highlights
how ports need to invest in infrastructure; presidential

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address from Santiago Garcia-Milà

News: Limassol port goes global; S Korea to develop

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Buenaventura; Duluth to get a makeover

Open Forum: Planning for great service- Richard Joost Lino, CEO of Pelindo II, gives his take on the8goal for Indonesian port development

Maritime Update: Antwerp extends green discount;increased pirate attacks in SE Asia; ESCA: ‘Stiffen port
regulation’; UN urges SE Asia to obey SAR law; US weighsin on congestion

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IAPH Info: Congratulations to this year’s award winners;
IAPH resolves…; MoU with AIVP; membership notes; Diary 36
Last Word: Competition, co-operation,
collaboration – by Geir-Eilif Kalhagen, CEO of thePort of Longview, Washington, US

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FEATURES

Cover stories:
2015 IAPH conference in Hamburg
Hamburg shows its SMARTs, as Jem Newton reports

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Theme: Port Automation
Port of Singapore goes 4G – adopting 4G broadband
coverage towards a smarter port, reports Titus Zheng

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Appointments please – can a truck appointment model relieve
congested gates at US ports? Joseph Bonney reports
Marrying safety and efficiency – APM’s automatedMaasvlakte II facility, by Bill Mongelluzzo

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Five challenges for automation – increasing port efficiency

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All the action from the2015 conference

Photo: Hamburg Port Authority

demands a technological rethink. Kari Reinikainen reports

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Topical:Jamaican hub rejuvenated - Greg Miller reports on Kingston
Container Terminal switching to a private operator
Linz to grow with EU backing – Tony Slinn reports on thismajor trimodal hub
US inland waterways – public finding paves the way formore private port investment, reports Scott Berman
Hyundai Glovis builds PCC terminal – shipping arm adds
terminal operations to its portfolio, reports Moyoun Jin
Out of the shadows – John Gallagher says Washington
state’s Grays Harbor is becoming a critical export hub

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Bigger and faster – the Suez Canal extension will be finishedin August, just one year after it started, reports Bert Visser 28
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No need to be afraid - Paul Owen reports on ‘Guidance on
detention and action taken’

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September/October 2015 Vol 60 No 5

Revving up

Prince Rupert’s expansion project

Trade wave

Cuba on the cusp

Upgrading ports
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Brazil’s modernisation 2.0 programme

Focus onthe Americas
Easst and
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Comment: Dawei reawakens – SG Naruse looks at a
project that could catalyse shipping changes

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News: Busan seeks more transhipment; Sines cargorecord; Savannah to get more intermodal support; Channel
4work helps Suez terminal; Mdawe appointed at PMAESA

Open Forum: Mahjong in Hong Kong – Jessie Chung,chairwoman of the Hong Kong Container Terminal Operators
Association, on congestion at the Port of Hong Kong
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Maritime Update: Polar Code to become mandatory;
Antwerp seeks permanent LNG station; piracy risks of Somali‘short-cut’; ECDIS compliance must be ‘above minimum’;
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insurers’ cyber-crime fears increase

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IAPH Info: New president; membership notes; Women’s
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Forum; Diary
Last Word: Make a difference! Dr Geraldine Knatz, IAPH

honorary member and founding member of the Women’s
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Forum highlights progress at the IAPH conference

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Cover stories: the Americas

Continental divide – John Gallagher on the competition
that’s heating up between the USA’s east and west coasts 10

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Prince Rupert revs up – Alex Binkley reports on expansion
plans and a new terminal operator at the Canadian port 13
Unlocking Cuba’s potential – uninhibited trade would
precipitate a wave of port projects, says Greg Miller

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Brazil port modernisation 2.0 – public and private sectors
refocus on upgrading work. By RT Watson
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Theme: Infrastructure

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From Canada down to
Brazil – routes andresources are the focus
of fierce competition

Photo: ShutterstockIndonesia hopes to rejuvenate ports – president moves to18
fulfil election promise, reports George Joseph
European round-up – Tony Slinn reports on projects at EU
EcoHubs and the ports of Tyne, Kiel, Hirtshals and Bronka 20

Theme: Port software

Round-up – Jason Barnes talks to DNV GL about developing
logistics software, Pentant on paperless customs processes
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and BMT on the Smart City concepts

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Topical:Port automation: – part 2 of Bill Mongelluzzo’s report on
APMT’s automated Maasvlakte II terminals in Rotterdam

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Sri Lanka – the Chinese make another port offer, reports
Rohan Gunasekera

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WPCI – Singapore’s efforts to encourage green shipping arepaying off, says Crystal Chan
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Bergen seminar – Tony Slinn reports on the virtues andconstraints of shore power for ports
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Ust-Luga – John Helmer highlights how the port is keeping
its Baltic ports lead
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EU-IMO emissions clash
European rules may muddy the waters

US ports clear the air

Pollution-beating is buoyed by success

Bergen switches on
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Norway’s frontrunner in shore power

Green ports& emissions monitoring
Time’s up for polluters as eco-awareness brings more business

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Comment: Looking ahead – SG Naruse looks at changes
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affecting members in 2016
News: ADB predicts improved efficiency; green giant
makes maiden call; piracy incident reports up 25%; headway4

made at Durban; improvements under way at Abidjan

Open Forum: Africa Mercy heals again – Veronika Farkason the role of volunteer medical organisation Mercy Ships 8
Maritime Update: Busan to build LNG bunkering
facility; US continues to loosen Cuba rules; Vancouver shore

power gets funding; piracy risks change but costs remain 32

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IAPH Info: Introduction to Maritime Law update;
women’s forum; new chair; membership notes; visits to HQ;
your port’s plans; online publications; other news; diary36

Last Word: Ambitious Abidjan projects – by Sie Hien
Yacouba, managing director of the Port of Abidjan and new
IAPH vice-president for the Africa/Europe region

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FEATURES
Cover Stories: Green ports
An eye on emissions – Stephen Cousins reports on how EU
emissions rules could jeopardise IMO work

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Shore power for Bergen – Tony Slinn reports as DOF Group’s
Skandi Vega benefits from the port’s green inauguration

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Growing stronger by going green – Oscar Wang of Shekou
Container Terminals talks to Titus Zheng about the benefits ofgreen practices in terminal operations

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Theme: Port security
Secure for sea – Frank Lennox-Millard reports on what EMEA

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those vessels, ports andsuppliers that haven’t
prepared for upcoming‘green’ regulation – andopportunity
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ports are doing to achieve this16

Ports get help to pump up security – anti-terrorism measures
are a priority at US ports, reports John Gallagher

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Theme: Container & bulk handling equipment
On-shore buildup – US ports increase box-handling capacity
as demand and ship size grow, reports John Gallagher

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A time of change - container and bulk handling equipment isincreasingly becoming automated, reports Tony Slinn

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TopicalTurkish debut – Andrew Spurrier reports on APM Terminals’
preparations for its first Turkish box terminal

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Staying power – port engineers explain to Tony Slinn how
asset management can ensure the reliability and longevity of
new port infrastructure and equipment

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Locked in to trade disadvantages – Dr Laurence Fortune
considers how logistics can help landlocked nations

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