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WorldCargo news 14 Ghana row still rumbling on GASCO (the Ghana Association of Stevedoring Companies) is appealing to a parliamentary transport committee to open an investigation into the award of the concession to operate container terminals at Tema and Takoradi to the Ghana Ports Service Consortium (GPS) last year. The consortium consisted of APM Terminals (APMT), Bathgate Management Ltd, Beckett Rankine Partnership, Bouygues Travaux Publics, Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, Bolloré Group and the Suttons Group, but the Ghanaian press claims that only APMT and Bolloré remain. GASCO is aggrieved that the Ghana Ports & Harbours Authority did not include incumbent local stevedores in the deal and claims the concession process was not a properly advertised and conducted international tender. Furthermore, it claims the concession is a bad deal for Ghana that has effectively handed 70 per cent of container revenues, worth over US$32 mill last year, to foreign companies. GASCO says this is not justified by investment as GPS is putting up less than half the capital costs of Phases I and II at Tema. GASCO is also concerned about APMT’s more recent concession to operate the container terminal at Apapa in Lagos, Nigeria, where it says APMT is pumping ten times more money into a competing port. With forest products remaining the lynchpin of Lübeck’s ferry traffic, Lübecker Hafen Gesellschaft (LHG), the main port operator at the city ports of Lübeck and Lübeck-Travemünde is continuing to expand capacity at the Skandinavienkai in Travemünde and at the Schlutup Terminal in Lübeck. During this year and next some €84 mill will be invested in what is already one of Europe’s largest ferry terminals. “The extension became necessary to meet the growing demands of our customers and in order to retain our position as a leading German Baltic port in the future,” said Manfred Evers, LHG’s managing director. Towards the south the 50 hectare marshalling area at Travemünde will be extended by 13.3 hectares and a second section of 15.7 hectares will be prepared so that it can be brought into use quickly when required. The railway line between Lübeck and Travemünde has already been relocated and renewed and the road link will be similarly upgraded. To accommodate the next generation of larger ferries, the roro berths are being rebuilt and enlarged. A new double deck ramp is being installed at Berth No 6 and vessels up to 220m can be PORT NEWS Lübeck still expanding LHG is continuing to invest heavily in Travemünde (above) and Schlutup accommodated there. This is slated to be ready by November, when Finnlines’ new ferries with 216m LOA 4200 lane/metres and capacity for 500 passengers are due to commence calls. Work on a completely new roro berth, No. 5A, is due to commence this month and it will be similarly equipped with a double deck ramp. Able to accommodate ships up to 250m and due for completion by May 2006, the facility Patrick rail boost Patrick Corp has opened a new A$10 mill rail terminal to serve its principal East Swanson Dock facility in Melbourne. The four-year project, undertaken jointly with the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC), involved the establishment of separate rail spurs where previously a single line served both Patrick and the nearby Australian Bulk Alliance grain terminal. The upgrade involved the laying of 1700m of new commonuser track, signalling and sidings at Appleton Dock, behind East Swanson. The A$5.95 mill cost of the work has been met by the PoMC. Patrick has developed two 660m rail sidings, associated hardstand and an office building for the facility, which is expected to handle 120,000 TEU in its first year. The company is preparing to spend a further A$7.8 mill on additional infrastructure, including warehousing and support facilities will bring to nine the number of ro-ro berths at Travemünde. In Lübeck, meanwhile, a new forest products shed is being erected at the Schlutup terminal, from where Swedish forest products are distributed throughout Europe. Shed capacity currently comes to 65,000 m 2 and around 1.2 mill tonnes/year of traffic - unitised forest products (cassettes, roll trailers), trailers, HGVs and containers - are moved over its two ro-ro pontoons. on land leased from the PoMC. The improvements will also cut train dwell times at the busy Footscray Road arterial crossing. Due to a state government-driven shift of port container traffic from road to rail, movements at the crossing are expected to rise from 12/ day now to 38/day by 2010, ahead of a grade-separation solution. Patrick’s director of ports, Maurice James, said the investment would cater for rail volume traffic for at least the next decade and provide an efficient link for empty container movement to regional rail terminals. Green light for Gangavaram The long-planned Gangavaram port in south India’s Andhra Pradesh state has finally achieved financial closure. A consortium of banks, led by the State Bank of India and the Industrial Development Bank of India, has signed an agreement with D V Raju & Company and Dubai Ports International (DPI) to advance Rs12 bill (US$273 mill) towards the cost of construction. The two companies, which will jointly develop and operate the port, will put in Rs5 bill (US$113.7 mill) as their contribution towards the equity. D V Raju and DPI will each have a 42.5 per cent equity stake in the port, which is expected to become operational by December 2007, while the State Bank will pick up the remaining 15 per cent. The planned port has faced A new common user berth - NoTwo Berth - completed at a cost of A$10 mill, has officially opened for business at Port Hedland in Western Australia. Total trade across the existing Nos One and Three berths has grown by more than 50 per cent in the last two years, causing the Port Hedland Port Authority (PHPA) to advance plans for additional capacity. The No Two Berth site was originally home to the port’s timber jetty but has been vacant for many years since the demolition of the old timber structure. Constructed as a southwards extension of the modern, concrete-decked No One Berth, the new facility features a berth length of 131m and when combined with NoOne Berth, offers a total straight quay many problems since it was first floated several years ago. The most recent hurdle in starting construction was agitation by fishermen in the area, who feared they would lose their livelihood. The problem was resolved when an agreement was signed by fishermen, state revenue officials and D V Raju (see WorldCargo News August 2005, p6). Gangavaram will mainly be a dry bulk port with six berths to handle coal, iron ore and other dry bulk minerals. It will be capable of handling vessels of up to 200,000 dwt. Hedland moves ahead length of 344m, sufficient to accommodate two Handysize vessels or a Panamax together with a smaller vessel. Port Hedland’s position as Australia’s largest port based on total tonnage throughput was confirmed recently as the port posted a record trade of 108.5 mill tonnes for the 2004-05 year. This result makes Port Hedland the first port in Australia to have broken through the 100 mill tonnes barrier in a trading year. The new berth will allow the concurrent handling of products such as bulk minerals at the NoOne Berth shiploader and livestock loading or acid discharge at the NoTwo Berth. It will allow the PHPA to accommodate a predicted growth in trade volume of around 30 per cent over the next few years. September 2005
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