The major Spanish transhipment hub Algeciras increased its liner connectivity by 20.5% in 4Q 2017 as compared to the previous quarter, becoming the second of all the global container ports, just after Singapore, with the highest rise in the number of direct service connections. This was revealed in the latest edition of Drewry’s quarterly Ports […]
Two new ship-to-shore cranes were delivered to the Wando Welch Terminal in Charleston on 1 March 2018, the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) informs. The neo-Panamax STS cranes are manufactured by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (ZPMC) in China and can lift containers 155 feet (47m) above the dock. Upon commissioning in June, the new […]
Blockshipping, the Danish start-up aiming to develop the world’s first blockchain-based container registry, announced the start of its ICO (initial coin offering) on 15 April, 2018. During the ICO period the company plans to sell 40,000,000 Container Crypto Coins (CCC), which will serve as dividend tokens, at USD 0.62. Currently, the company invites all interested […]
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis), a leading Dutch expert in dredging services, has secured a contract for the port development project Tuas Terminal Phase II in Singapore. According to the company’s press release, the contract worth SGD 1.46 bln (USD 1.1 bln or EUR 897 mln) was awarded by the Maritime and Port Authority of […]
Yesterday, 18 February 2018, PSA’s Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals (BMCT) was officially inaugurated at Jawaharlal Nehru Port by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had laid the foundation stone for the terminal back in October 2015. As The Straits Times reports, the official ceremony was conducted remotely from the site of the future Navi Mumbai […]
Port Newark Container Terminal (PNCT), jointly operated by Ports America and MSC’s ports arm TIL at the Port of New York and New Jersey, has recently introduced a truck slot reservation program. The new “FLEX Services” program allows terminal’s clients who pay USD 95.50 per container to be serviced first when PNCT opens at 6am. […]
The development of Phase 2 of Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) at the port of Umm Qasr, Iraq’s main shipping trade gateway on the Persian Gulf coast, is well underway by Philippine’s port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI). According to the company, the Phase 2 expansion will be completed in stages by Q3 2019 […]
The Port Authority of Algeciras (La Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahia de Algeciras, APBA) has decided not to prolong any more the tender to build a new container terminal in the port, after the last extended term expired on 31 January 2018 and no bids have been received again, informs the APBA press service. The […]
The Port of Long Beach handled 7.54 mln TEU in 2017, which represents an 11.36% increase from 2016 and the highest total in the port’s 107-year history, breaking the old record of 7.3 mln TEU in 2007. Mario Cordero, the Port’s Executive Director, called 2017 a big year at the annual State of the Port […]
Hongkong International Terminals (HIT), part of Hutchison Ports, officially launched yesterday the operations of remote-controlled Rubber-Tyred Gantry cranes (RTGs) and automated container stacking system at its Container Terminal 9 (CT9) North at the Tsing Yi part of the Hong Kong port. According to HIT, this makes CT9 North the first container terminal in Hong Kong […]
