Month: November 2018

Argentina constructs wind farms, develops Puerto Quequen as a logistics base

Puerto Quequen

Puerto Quequen, Argentina, starts constructing a facility to handle wind turbines, which later on will be converted into a container terminal. The port on the southeast of the Buenos Aires province is to receive the wind turbines already in early 2019. These will be shipped from Asia for wind farms Vientos Necochea, Vientos Miramar and […]

Port Botany to increase rail capacity up to 3 mln TEU

NSW Ports, the Australian investment consortium managing ports and terminals of New South Wales, announced its plans to invest in on-dock rail infrastructure capacity at each of the three container terminals at Port Botany, ultimately increasing the port’s rail capacity to 3 mln TEU. The investment will be staged, with stevedores being required to invest […]

MSC to develop Bettolo Container Terminal independently

Bettolo Container Terminal

MSC intends to buy out the shares of Gruppo Investimenti Portuali (GIP), its partner in the new container terminal under construction in the Italian port of Genoa, and thus to consolidate 100% of the terminal, informs The MediTelegraph. Not so long ago, in June 2018, the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority managing the Genoa port […]

Hamburg port 9m 2018: rail traffic share up to 45%

Hamburg port

The Port of Hamburg has announced its 9 months 2018 results. The port achieved a total throughput of 100.8 mln tons, which is 3.4% below the 2017 level, due to lower volumes of bulk cargo and containers, although conventional general cargo slightly increased. Hamburg handled 6.6 mln TEU in January-September 2018, -2.4% as compared to […]

Bollore and PowerChina selected as preferred bidder for Nigeria’s Ibom deep seaport

Ibom Deep Seaport Project

The consortium of Bollore Africa Logistics and PowerChina International Group Ltd. has been selected as the preferred bidder for the Ibom Deep Seaport Project (IDSP) on the southern coast of Nigeria. Now the project passes to the next stage of public private partnership procurement process, which is negotiating with the preferred bidder on the investment […]

DP World becomes Virgin Hyperloop One’s largest investor

Virgin Hyperloop One

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO of DP World, has been elected as Chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, as the company is ready to start implementing the world’s first hyperloop system. Besides, Jay Walder, one of the world’s leading mass transportation and technology executives, has been appointed as the company’s CEO and a […]

Top terminal operators and carriers join for digital transformation of global shipping

blockchain shipping solution

Nine leading ocean carriers and terminal operators signed a Declaration of Intent to form a consortium aimed at developing the Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), an open digital platform based on distributed ledger technology. The signing ceremony took placeat the China International Import Expo inShanghai on 6 November 2018. The participants include shipping lines CMA […]

Ukrainian ports join forces with two leading ports of Egypt

Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority

The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) and the Port Authorities of Alexandria and Damietta, Egypt, signed a Memorandum of cooperation on 2 November in Kyiv, Ukraine. The document implies joint implementation of projects, information exchange and mutual assistance in seaborne trade. The signing took place in Kyiv. From the Egyptian side, the Memorandum was signed […]

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