This week Drewry Maritime Research have held a webinar presentation of its Ports & Terminals Insight Report. The report is issued quarterly and supplements Drewry’s main Annual Container Terminal Operators report. The 3Q 2017 report was presented by Neil Davidson, Drewry’s Senior Analyst, Ports and Terminals. The report covers several questions. One of them is […]
DP World London Gateway is to start operating with the first ever fast charging electric shuttle carrier of Kalmar in the beginning of 2018. The fully electric powered Kalmar FastCharge(TM) Shuttle Carrier will be tested at DP World’s UK major container terminal for 6-12 months to ascertain the suitability of a fully electric solution for […]
PACECO ESPAÑA, a Spanish leading supplier of cranes and services for container handling, has recently signed an agreement with Klaipedos Konteineriu Terminalas, Lithuania, for the delivery of 2 Transtainer (RTG) cranes. The new 16-wheeled cranes of the latest state-of-the-art PACECO ESPAÑA design have a lifting capacity of 41t under spreader and stack 1-over-5 containers high […]
In December, the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai will start operating 7 new berths with depths of 15m, boosting Shanghai’s annual handling capacity up to 40 mln TEU and thus confirming its status of the world’s busiest container port, writes South China Morning Post. According to a press officer of Shanghai International Port Group, Yangshan […]
Russia’s container ports demonstrate strong growth in 2017. From January through to June 2017 they handled 2.26 mln TEU, surpassing the data of the same period in 2016 by 15,3%, informs TASS news agency quoting the Association of Russian sea commercial ports. Both import and export volumes continue the upward trend of the first quarter: imports […]
Italy’s leading container terminal in La Spezia (LSCT), operated by Contship Italia Group, has been voted “Best Container Terminal – Europe” at the 2017 Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Awards (AFLAS) held last week in Singapore, informs Contship Italia. The AFLAS awards are organized by the freight and logistics magazine Asia Cargo News and […]
APM Terminals’ facilities in Itajai (Brazil) and T4 in Buenos Aires (Argentina) were chosen as ports of call at South America East Coast for the joint Asian service of Hapag-Lloyd, NYK, ZIM, Hyundai and Hamburg Sud, informs APMT. The 13 vessels deployed at the weekly service will call the Asian ports of Kelang, Singapore, Qingdao, […]
Krishnapatnam Port, India’s East Coast deep-water port, has announced this week that it is ready to go paperless by implementing the cloud-based platform called “e-Xpressway” for container operations, informs The Times of India. The solution acts as a centralized docking station for all the participants of container handling process – vessel operator, container operator, freight […]
In January-May 2017, Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg (CTSP), owned by UCL Holding, handled 264,860 TEU, recording a growth of 10,2% year-on-year. This makes CTSP the leading container terminal in Russia, accounting for 14.25% of the country’s total handling. The terminal strongly keeps its place at the top of all Russian container stevedores for the second consecutive […]
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 […]
