The first container train from the Yiwu city in China through Russia to Latvian capital city, Riga arrived at the Riga Central railway station on 5th November, reports the press release of Latvian railways. The service was organized by Latvian and Chinese railways, Yiwu platform, “Interrail AG”, logistics subsidiary of Latvian railway, “LDZ Logistics” and […]
On Friday, 4 November 2016, a new deep water container terminal Liverpool2 was officially opened at the Port of Liverpool by the Secretary of State for International Trade, Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP. The facility is one of the UK’s largest private sector infrastructure projects, being a UKP 400 mln (USD 500 mln) investment […]
The second deepwater berth (T2) of the container terminal DCT Gdansk in Poland was opened on 24 October 2016. The new berth, 650 meters long and 16.5 m deep, is equipped with 5 modern and largest in the Baltic region STS cranes able to handle ultra large ships of over 20,000 TEU and 15 fully […]
The container throughput of Russian ports dropped by 0.7% in the first 9 months of 2016 as compared to the same period of 2015, according to the data published by the Association of Russian sea ports. In January-September, 2016 Russian ports handled 2.94 mln TEU, which can be considered stabilization after a drastic drop of 26% […]
On October, 18th Drewry held a webinar on the Global Container Terminal Operators Annual Review recently released by the company and now presented by Neil Davison, Senior Analyst, Ports and Terminals. The report, published annually for the last 14 years, provides comprehensive and enhanced analysis of terminal operators’ activity and has become an industry “bible”. […]
The container throughput of the 3 major ports of Finland in 9 months of 2016 reaches 1 mln TEU, which is 7.5% higher than last year. In January-September, 2016 the leading Port of HaminaKotka increased its throughput by 13.4% on a year-on-year basis by handling 427 210 TEU. The second largest port in container traffic […]
The Panama Canal Authority has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to four pre-qualified port operators selected to compete for the concession to design, develop, finance, construct, operate and maintain Corozal Container Terminal, writes Port Strategy. The four shortlisted companies are the global major terminal operators APM Terminals, PSA International, Terminal Link, and Terminal Investments […]
VITIM containership of Maersk Line became the 1000th vessel that called Ust Luga Container Terminal (ULCT) since its opening in 2011, says today’s press release of the terminal operator. The 1726 TEU ship arrived from Muuga (Finland) and thereafter left for St. Petersburg (Russia). During the port call ULCT handled 416 containers. ULCT is the […]
Tomorrow, 4th of October, 2016 dockworkers of Vladivostok Sea Commercial Port (VSCP) will hold a meeting to defend their rights, as announced by the press service of the Dockers’ Union of Russia. The mass action is caused by the forced redundancy of the dockers of the port’s container terminal, violation of their labour rights and […]
The productivity at the top 30 global container ports increased by only 2% between the first half of 2014 and the same period of 2016, writes IHS Fairplay. The study carried out by CTI Consultancy is based on port call data from 74% of the world’s container fleet operators and ship tracking satellite data by […]
