APM Terminals reports that its Gothenburg office has signed an addendum to the original concession agreement with the Port of Gothenburg to invest an additional SEK 250 mln (EUR 25 mln or USD 27.8 mln) through 2024 in the largest container port in Scandinavia. The new investment will be targeted at increasing operational productivity for […]
Tender for Corozal expires with no bidders
The tender for a container terminal at Corozal to serve the Panama Canal has expired because no bids were received by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), wrote yesterday Splash 24/7. As we informed last year, four global port operators, including APM Terminals, Terminal Link, PSA International and Terminal Investment Ltd., were selected to compete for […]
Royal Caribbean to build new cruise terminal in Miami
Increasingly, cruise lines are taking terminal development at their ports of call into their own hands. Thus, in October 2015, Carnival Cruise Line completed the USD 85 mln development of the Amber Cove cruise port in the Dominican Republic. Norwegian Cruise Line invested USD 100 mln into port development at Harvest Caye, Belize, which welcomed […]
THE Alliance brings all its UK calls to DP World
The container shipping consortium THE Alliance (Hapag Lloyd, K-Line, MOL, NYK Line and Yang Ming) has announced that all of its mainline UK calls on Asia-Europe and Transatlantic services will be handled by DP World’s terminals at London Gateway and Southampton, reports DP World. The Asia-Europe FE1, FE2 and FE4 services will call at DP […]
Spanish ports’ strike on pause
Spain’s dockworkers unions called off the first two days of the 9-days strike scheduled for March, 6 and 8 and expect to continue negotiations with the government on the dock labour system reform. However, the action on March, 10 as well as those every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the following two weeks are still scheduled. […]
Sea Port of St. Peterburg handled Talgo train for Uzbekistan
Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg (part of UCL Holding), Russia, unloaded 2 locomotives and 11 passenger coaches of Spanish high-speed train Talgo, after which they were successfully delivered to the point of destination in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. The cargo arrived at the end of February from Bilbao via Antwerp by Finnlines’ MS Finnsea ro-ro carrier. For […]
PSA calls for start-ups to develop Container Port 4.0
The corporate venture capital arm of PSA International, PSA unboXed, sends out its second call for action for its incubator programme, inviting start-ups and potential partners to propose technology solutions to support PSA’s project Container Port 4.0 (CP4.0), writes Singaporean The Business Times. CP4.0 is PSA’s transformational blueprint developing the Port of the Future, that […]
Gulftainer implements MACH TOS in its terminals
Gulftainer, a privately owned United Arab Emirates port operator, has successfully implemented the Marine and Container Handling (MACH) terminal operating system (TOS), writes TradeArabia. The new TOS will be rolled out across Gulftainer terminals in the UAE in a phased manner in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an IT services, digital and business solutions […]
Maersk and IBM introduce blockchain in shipping
Yesterday Maersk and IBM unveiled a new mutual project to develop a new solution based on blockchain technology to manage transactions between shipping lines, shippers, freight forwarders, ports and customs. The product is said to be available already later this year. Applying innovative blockchain technology, known also as the basis for the Bitcoin virtual money, […]
OPDR and Boluda to develop container terminal in Seville
German short sea shipping line OPDR, part of the CMA CGM Group, and Spanish Boluda Corporación Marítima have started jointly operating the container terminal in the port of Seville, Spain’s only navigable river port located 52 nautical miles from the Atlantic Ocean. As announced in OPDR’s press release, OPDR, with the contribution of CMA Terminals, […]