HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) in Hamburg handled a 126-tonne project cargo on 1 June, informs HHLA. The giant rotary cooker of 24 metres in length and 4.40 metres in diameter was made in China and loaded on board CSCL Jupiter, a container ship of 14,000 TEU capacity of COSCO Shipping Lines, in Shanghai in […]
Maritime authorities of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain closed their berths to all vessels under the flag of Qatar, owned by Qatar and other vessels traveling in and out of Qatari ports, informs Bloomberg. This may cause severe disruptions in oil and gas trade as well as in container shipping. On Monday, 5 […]
For the fifth consecutive year, the Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (la Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras – APBA) has been arranging an exciting campaign – “Conoce tu Puerto” (“Get acquainted with your port”). From 22 May till 8 June anyone can board a specially dedicated boat and take a sea trip […]
Georgian ports need to improve their services and logistical connectivity in order to maintain the country’s position as a key transit corridor for the Caucasus, said Jacob Gulmann, ICTSI Europe, Middle East and Africa Business Development Director at the 6th Black Sea Ports and Shipping 2017. The biggest annual conference on container ports and terminal […]
Based on strong results of the first quarter of 2017, Alphaliner has revised upwards its forecast of container shipping volumes for the current year. Now the full year global port throughput growth is expected to reach 4.6% in 2017, compared with earlier projections of just 2-3%. This adjustment is explained by a healthy increase of […]
Today the official delegation from Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has visited Algeciras and met the executives of the Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (APBA). At the working meeting the parties have discussed the procedure of the acquisition of the semi-automated container terminal Total Terminal International Algeciras (TTI Algeciras) by the South Korean shipping company. […]
Summa Group, the major shareholder of FESCO Transportation Group, is reported to be in talks to sell a minority stake in FESCO to a consortium headed by DP World and the state-run Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), informs Financial Times. The deal may amount to several hundred million dollars and include special corporate governance rights […]
The tender to construct the international sea terminal Pionersky in Kaliningrad region, Russia, has been declared void, informs PortNews agency. As we wrote last December, in view of the 2018 FIFA World Cup taking place in Russia, the state plans to build a new cruise port in Kaliningrad region, on the Baltic Sea. The facility […]
Today we continue our discussion with Mr. J. Javier López, Head of Commercial Division of the Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (APBA), started in the previous publication. The name of Algeciras comes from Arabic and means “the green island”, or Isla Verde in Spanish, referring to the small island that lies in the bay, […]
Solvo, the leading Russian developer of IT solutions for ports, container terminals and warehouses, has implemented its terminal operating system SOLVO.TOS at Bronka Port container terminal in Saint Petersburg, Russia, thus finalising a five-year project, informs the company’s press service. The port of Bronka (owned and operated by LLC Fenix) is a new deepwater, state-of-the-art […]
