Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has announced today the appointment of Guenter Schmidmeir as Senior Vice President, Global Terminal Operators, with effect from 1 November 2017. Guenter Schmidmeir will be part of Kalmar’s Leadership Team, reporting to Antti Kaunonen, President, Kalmar Business Area. He will lead strategic account management to further strengthen and deepen relationships with the global terminal […]
Spain’s leading logistics and port operating group Noatum announced several important changes last week. First, the new management team has arrived in Spain to head Noatum Ports. As we wrote earlier, COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd acquired 51% of Noatum Ports in June 2017. The transaction involved the container terminals in Valencia, Bilbao, Zaragoza and Madrid. […]
The new APM Terminals’ platform in Vado, which is currently under construction in the northern Italy, will boast an annual capacity of 1.1 mln TEU, channel depths from 16m to 23m and the productivity of 26 movements per crane per hour, announced Paolo Cornetto, CEO of APM Terminals in Italy, at the 5th MED Ports 2017 […]
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) promotes the Port of Subic to become Philippines’ major container facility, informs Subic Bay International Terminal Corporation, the operator of Subic container port and an affiliate of Philippines-based global port operator ICTSI. On this move, the SBMA has initiated a #GoSubicBay open window access for container port-related businesses and […]
Airobot, a Belgium-based innovation company developing new technologies for professional drone operations, has supplied a positioning solution for MSC PSA European Terminal (MPET) in Antwerp, Belgium, informs the company. In 2016 MPET, formerly known as the MSC Home Terminal, moved its operations from the Delwaidedock on the right bank of the river Schelde to the Deurganckdock on the left […]
HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) in Hamburg handled the first vessel by 5 new mega-STS cranes dedicated to serve ships with a capacity of over 20,000 TEU. The 13,400 TEU-capacity COSCO Netherlands arrived at CTT last Friday, 20 October, and left on Saturday night. During this time, the 5 STS cranes discharged and loaded about […]
The Russian Ministry of Transport has drafted regulations to introduce the so-called “investment dues” at the nation’s seaports. The money collected through these fees are meant to be invested in construction and development of the state-owned facilities at the seaports. However, this may decrease the competitiveness of the Russian ports, writes PortNews. The relevant documents […]
Gazprom Gazenergoset Heliy, a branch of Russian energy group of companies Gazprom, intends to develop a logistic hub for handling containers loaded with helium in Primorye, Russian Far East, informs today the press service of Russia’s Ministry of the development of the Far East. The facility is to be constructed at the advanced development area Nadezhdinskaya […]
The port of Rotterdam has published its 9 months results this week, recording a 10.1% increase in container traffic compared to January-September 2016. In the first 9 months of 2017 the port handled 10.2 mln TEU, or 105.9 mln tonnes. The growth was attributed to the strong increase in the number of full containers, which […]
This week, EUROGATE Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven, Germany’s only deep-water port, has served for the first time the world’s largest container ship OOCL Germany with a capacity of 21,413 TEU. To welcome the vessel on her maiden voyage, the terminal’s employees arranged containers in the form of “21413” on the container stowage area near the berth […]
