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A site set up to inform all port employees new and relevant Unite union messages. Please feel free to comment on posts or use the links to email me. Unite is the union for The Port of Felixstowe formerly known as Transport and general workers union or T & G.
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Dockers demand worldwide lobby on health and safety

16 hours 10 min ago
Dockers demand worldwide lobby on health and safety 9 August 2010 Calls by dockers’ unions for a global union response to growing health and safety concerns in ports following several fatalities over...
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Dockers demand worldwide lobby on health and safety

16 hours 10 min ago
Dockers demand worldwide lobby on health and safety 9 August 2010 Calls by dockers’ unions for a global union response to growing health and safety concerns in ports following several fatalities over...
Categories: local, south east

Liverpool box port plans hits possible snag

3 September 2010 - 5:55pm
Thursday 02 September 2010 Ports & Logistics PEEL Port’s plans to build a £200m ($307.9m) container terminal to handle post-panamax boxships in Liverpool have met a potentially significant...
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Here is ZHEN HUA 8 with some more terminal equipment

28 August 2010 - 7:36pm
2 more ship to shore cranes arrived this afternoon to join the other 3 cranes on F.S.R
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Dubai World could sell DP World and other 'crown jewel' assets

27 August 2010 - 8:16pm
Until now DP World, which bought P&O Ports in 2006 and runs Southampton and Tilbury docks in the UK, had been considered sacrosanct A strategy outline for the group at its latest creditor...
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Record profits for Maersk

22 August 2010 - 10:51pm
A. P. Møller-Mærsk is back on track, and presents its second best half-year result ever. The net profit was USD 2.5 billion in the first six months of 2010, compared to a loss in the first half of...
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Another MSC ship bites the dust

10 August 2010 - 10:57am
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:02 am Post subject: Another MSC ship bites the dust MSC CHITRA collides with bulk carrier of Mumbai. The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has sounded an alert over the oil...
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Things are looking good.

6 August 2010 - 9:56pm
Hutchison box traffic up 17% Thursday 05 August 2010 Ports & Logistics HUTCHISON Port Holdings recorded a 17% surge in container throughputs to 35.3m teu for the first half 2010, as the Hong...
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UK Ports Expansion Plans

30 July 2010 - 10:32pm
CaptainJoined: 28 Jan 2008Posts: 196Location: Chelmsford & Harwich Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:13 pm Post subject: PORT DEVELOPMENTS Recent press articles have highlighted the following port...
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Lock-out shuts box terminals at Montreal

22 July 2010 - 10:41am
No containers have been unloaded at the Candian port of Montreal after terminal managers ordered a lock-out of workers in response to a dispute over working hours and wages. Port landlord the...
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Nationwide port shutdown following docker death in Australia

21 July 2010 - 2:02pm
Workers in Australia took part in a 24-hour nationwide port shutdown this week to express their anger over the death of yet another waterside worker. The dockers, represented by the ITF-affiliated...
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Change of Maersk Ships After Fire

20 July 2010 - 2:12pm
20.07.2010 news Newsdesk Maersk Brooklyn, the last of the laid up ships to leave Loch Striven and the last to leave the Clyde, reached Le Havre on schedule yesterday evening and set out again this...
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NOL sees container rates rise

20 July 2010 - 2:06pm
NOL sees container rates rise Published: 19 July 2010 03:30 PMIndustry Channel: Transport & Distribution The average revenue per container is now 32 per cent higher that as year ago, according...
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Containers still burning a week after fire on Maersk ship began

15 July 2010 - 2:59pm
More than 100 containers are still burning on board the Charlotte Maersk seven days after the blaze began. Maersk Line said the fire started last Wednesday at around 9pm local time close to Port...
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More cranes for F S R

14 July 2010 - 5:24pm
ZHEN HUA 8 was photographed arriving in Dar es Salaam on 10th July with 1 new quayside crane and 2 new RTG’s for TICTS (Tanzania International Container Terminal Services). The other 2 quayside...
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Dooley Terminal

13 July 2010 - 7:26pm
DFDS Home ACQUISITION OF NORFOLKLINE COMPLETED Release date: 12-07-2010 00:00:00 All conditions for the acquisition of Norfolk Line from A. P. Møller - Mærsk fulfilled New Executive Management...
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