This week in ports all over the world has been full of dramatic events, as if some supreme evil spirits were playing on the eve of Halloween night. A container exploded at the Evergreen Terminal in the port of Los Angeles at 6pm on Tuesday, 30 October. Luckily, no one was injured, although the port […]
By the afternoon of 12 October, 95% of the total Durban Port area had been declared safe for navigation of vessels, but sounding surveys were still in progress along the C-Shed area and vessel movement was still suspended in that area, informs Durban’s daily The Mercury quoting Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), which manages the […]
Last Thursday, 4 May, while berthing at Terminal 1 in Jebel Ali Port, Dubai, the CMA CGM Centaurus containership of 11,388 TEU capacity collided with the quay wall striking the leg of an STS crane causing it to fall and injuring 10 people. A second crane was also shifted off its rails during the incident but remained upright […]
