The Dubai-based global port operator has announced a disruptive technology that would radically improve operations, efficiency and capacity at container terminals. The world’s first multi-storey container stacking system is suggested by the joint-venture formed by DP World and SMS group, a German family-owned industrial engineering company. The new technology will be first implemented at DP […]
The Port of Algeciras can multiply fifteen-fold the number of its weekly freight trains to Spain’s hinterland by 2030, if it ensures a competitive rail connectivity. This is one of the main conclusions delivered by the consulting company TRN Taryet in its “Analysis of the potential demand to be captured by rail transport of the […]
COSCO Shipping Ports (CSP) and Abu Dhabi Ports have held today the official inauguration ceremony for the CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal at the Khalifa Port, informs CSP. The high-level event was attended by officials from China and UAE as well as by senior management of both port operating companies. CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal is the […]
In mid-November, the first Indian inland waterway terminal was opened on the Ganga river in Varanasi, 780km east of Delhi. The terminal was officially inaugurated by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is the first of four multi-modal terminals currently under construction on the National Waterway-1 (river Ganga) as part of the World Bank-aided Jal Marg […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
The Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT), India, is ready to expand its container terminal, informs The Hindu. The project involves an investment of INR 633 crore (apprx. USD 90 mln) and is expected to commence by the year end or early 2019. The Visakhapatnam Port, which is located on India’s east coast in between Chennai and […]
COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd and PSA Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday to add two new berths at the COSCO-PSA Terminal (CPT) in Singapore. The launch of the two new mega-vessel berths will increase CPT’s annual handling capacity from 3 mln to about 5 mln TEU and will strengthen CSP’s presence in Singapore and […]
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 […]
