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PORT NEWS
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Hamburg expects weak first half
creased by 1.8% to 42.5 mt, with imports
up by 1.1% to 31.8 mt and exports up by
4% to 10.6 mt, of which grain exports
accounted for 2.3 mt (almost double the
The Port of Hamburg expects to see a decline in the handling of containers and containers handled amounted to 7.9M figure for 2007). Import of coal and ore
decline in throughput in the first half of other general cargo due to the worldwide TEU, deviating only slightly (-0.6%) from fell somewhat to 17.1 mt, due to reduced
this year, but if world trade picks up in economic crisis. the previous year’s result. demand for steel and energy production.
the second half of the year, full year fig- Container traffic reached 9.7M TEU, Taking into account the weaker re- a71 Container traffic handed by Eurogate
ures may yet reach 140 mt, close to the 1.5% less than the record result of 2007. sults for 2008, the average annual growth at its Hamburg facility (CTH) was down
volume of 2008 and 2007. As reported by other ports, 4Q/2008 re- rate in the handling of containers in Ham- by 7.7% to 2.7M TEU last year. In
In the container handling sector, Dr sults were particularly significant. Ham- burg over the period from 2000 to 2008 Bremerhaven, however, the group’s vol-
Jörgen Sorgenfrei, head of the Port of burg reports a 10.3% fall in container traf- comes out at around 11%. ume was up by 12.4% to 5.5M TEU, in-
Hamburg Marketing Division, does not fic during the last three months of the Breakbulk and conventional general cluding CTB and the joint venture ter-
anticipate any significant recovery from the year to 2.2M TEU. cargo showed well in comparison with the minals with Maersk and MSC. Overall
current weakness in world trade until the The port notes that almost 70% of the previous year, with a total of 2.8 Mt (-0.1%). Eurogate handled 14.2M TEU in 2008
second half at the earliest. overall fall in container traffic was due to Export shipments increased considerably (+2.3%), with its Italian operations MCT
Hamburg handled 140.4 mt in 2008, the decline in the handling of empty con- (mainly new cars and project cargoes), but Gioia Tauro up by 0.7% to 3.5M TEU
just 0.8% less than the record figure for tainers. The figure of 1.8M TEU last year these gains were offset by falls in import of and CICT Cagliari down by 52% to
2007, with a significant growth in the means that 105,000 fewer empty contain- fruit and metal products. 257,000 TEU after Maersk shifted its tran-
Eurogate reported a 7.7% fall in traffic at its
handling of bulk cargo making up for the ers were handled, a drop of 5.4%. Loaded Overall bulk cargo shipments in- shipment traffic to the APM Terminals’
Hamburg terminal in 2008
facility in Tanger-Medport. The arrival of
the GA and UASC led to a recovery for
CICT during 4Q/08.
Eurogate said traffic slowed signifi-
cantly in both Bremerhaven and Ham-
burg in December and warned that vol-
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umes will decline further this year. How-
ever, the group expressed confidence in
the long-term growth in ocean container
traffic and will continue its investment
programme, including its €350M budget
for JWP Wilhelmshaven phase 1. Some
short-term investments will be post-
poned, however.
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New Doraleh
terminal open
DP World has formally opened the new
US$400M Doraleh Container Terminal
at the Port of Djibouti.
The new terminal, located 11 km from
the existing port, features 1,050m of quay
equipped with six superpost-Panamax
ship-to-shore cranes. A depth of 18m
alongside the berths will allow it to ac-
commodate the largest ships in service,
including 10-15,000 TEU NPX vessels.
Initial capacity is 1.2M TEU/year, which
will rise over time in line with market
demand to around 3m TEU.
DP World has been operating the Port
of Djibouti since 2000 under a 20 year
concession agreement and has also in-
vested substantially in Djibouti through
its other companies, including a free zone
and customs operations.
HPH goes
biometric
Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has se-
lected AuthenTest software from
AuthenWare, a leader in keystroke bio-
metrics, to handle security interactions
between its customers and Customs in
its Americas operation.
“We evaluated other biometric solu-
tions such as tokens, security cards, and
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other traditional solutions, but found
them to be inadequate for our needs,” said
HPH Americas CIO Pedro Maidana. “We
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selected AuthenTest because it is cost-ef-
fective, easy to implement, requires no
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special hardware, and most importantly,
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it is non-intrusive to our users.”
HPH Americas has a portal by which
customers declare goods entering or leav-
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ing port. Using AuthenTest, HPH will be
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able to ensure that its customers can trans-
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act with the customs application safely and
without risk sensitive information being
lost, stolen or misused.
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approach towards handling security by not
only securing information access through
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keystroke biometrics, but also by render-
ing any stolen credentials useless. It ac-
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complishes this through a proprietary pro-
tocol that creates and maintains a unique
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personal security pattern for each user
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every time he or she enters data using
the keyboard.
Using the unique personal security
pattern, AuthenTest can determine if the
user is real or an imposter and allow or
deny access accordingly, even if the cor-
rect credentials are supplied.
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