Cavotec wins port equipment orders worth EUR10 million

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Tony Slinn
31 March 2015
 
Cavotec motorised cable reels on container cranes. Photo: Cavotec

Global engineering group Cavotec has today announced port equipment orders worth EUR10 million, including five from Chinese crane manufacturing giant ZPMC.

Of those, the biggest is for cable reels that will supply electrical power to 72 ZPMC automated stacking cranes at Singapore's newest terminal, Pasir Panjang. Cavotec is also providing 28 spreader cable reels for ship-to-shore (STS) container cranes at the same facility.

The other three orders are for:

Power and spreader cable reels for four ZPMC STS cranes for PSA International. Destined for the Port of Genoa in Italy, the country's largest port by cargo volume and second largest by teu throughput - they will be the largest reels ever manufactured by Cavotec

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Tasmania–Asia direct freight link plan dropped

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Zoe Reynolds
02 April 2015
 
A vessel docks in the Tasmanian port of Hobart. Photo: PA

A move to provide a direct shipping link between Tasmania, Australia, to Asia has been abandoned, at least in the short term.

The Tasmanian government said the decision to allow a memorandum of understanding with Singapore-based Swire Shipping to expire comes after a federal government AUD203 million (USD154 million) subsidy was extended to Tasmanian export container cargo currently transhipped out of Melbourne.

Formerly, the Australian government's Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme (TFES) did not apply to international cargo. So in November the Tasmanian state government had offered Swire an AUD33 million subsidy to provide the southern island state an international freight link out of Bell Bay.

"Obviously the recent decision

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Una reforma de la estiba obligada

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06.04.2015 | 04:15

Juan M. Esquembre El pasado 11 de diciembre, el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea dictaba una sentencia por la que declara que España, en lo relativo al régimen actual de contratación de los trabajadores portuarios (estibadores), incumple las obligaciones que le incumben en virtud del artículo 49 del Tratado de Funcionamiento de la UE sobre la libertad de establecimiento dentro de la Unión y la prohibición de restricciones a los nacionales de un Estado miembro. Hasta esa fecha, España había mantenido que las supuestas restricciones advertidas por la UE en relación al modelo de estiba portuaria estaban justificadas porque la manipulación de mercancías en los puertos supone un servicio de interés general y también para

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Movimiento de buques mercantes en los Puertos del Estado.

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12.1. BUQUES MERCANTES (Número)

Autoridad PortuariadiciembreAcumulado del año
2013201420132014Var(%)
A Coruña 98 91 1.161 1.124 -3,19
Alicante 68 53 884 804 -9,05
Almería 95 98 1.328 1.363 2,64
Avilés 60 72 832 809 -2,76
Bahía de Algeciras 1.965 2.212 25.454 26.754 5,11
Bahía de Cádiz 103 103 1.110 1.025 -7,66
Baleares 1.562 1.667 28.316 33.911 19,76
Barcelona 549 573 7.746 7.771 0,32
Bilbao 217 226 2.789 2.862 2,62
Cartagena 146 149 1.766 1.777 0,62
Castellón 118 126 1.384 1.500 8,38
Ceuta 872 931 11.461 11.179 -2,46
Ferrol-S. Cibrao 121 106 1.097 1.074 -2,10
Gijón 93 90 1.251 1.320 5,52
Huelva 230 159 1.919 1.847 -3,75
Las Palmas 903 1.031 10.418 10.940 5,01
Málaga 151 114 1.544 1.381 -10,56
Marín y Ría de Pontevedra 42 47 504 604 19,84
Melilla 114 121 1.507 1.406 -6,70
Motril 73 68 928 886 -4,53
Pasaia 85 85 879 921 4,78
Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1.064 1.064 12.088 12.116 0,23
Santander 105 111 1.334 1.393 4,42
Sevilla 68 85 1.065 994 -6,67
Tarragona 182 229 2.452 2.640 7,67
Valencia 573 610 7.160 7.370 2,93
Vigo 111 118 1.551 1.541 -0,64
Vilagarcía 17 18 242 261 7,85
TOTAL 9.785 10.357 130.170 137.573 5,69