MSC intends to construct an inland rail container terminal at Lousado, that is destined to become the largest dry port in Portugal. The company makes this significant investment through Medway, its rail freight operator in Iberia, to address the growing needs of exporters and shippers in the north of the country. Northern Portugal accounts for […]
A new multipurpose terminal for handling containers and petroleum products near Venice, Italy, has been designed by the Italian company VGate Srl and submitted to the Italian Environment Ministry for evaluation, writes InforMare. The project outlines a facility 2.3 km offshore the port of Chioggia in the North Adriatic Sea, connected with the land by a […]
MSC intends to buy out the shares of Gruppo Investimenti Portuali (GIP), its partner in the new container terminal under construction in the Italian port of Genoa, and thus to consolidate 100% of the terminal, informs The MediTelegraph. Not so long ago, in June 2018, the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority managing the Genoa port […]
The Port of Hamburg has announced its 9 months 2018 results. The port achieved a total throughput of 100.8 mln tons, which is 3.4% below the 2017 level, due to lower volumes of bulk cargo and containers, although conventional general cargo slightly increased. Hamburg handled 6.6 mln TEU in January-September 2018, -2.4% as compared to […]
The Port of Gdansk, Poland, opened a trade office in Shangahai, informs Polish news agency The First News. Being the port’s first presence in China, the office will coordinate cooperation and reinforce contacts with Chinese companies. The opening ceremony took place during the 13th China International Logistics and Transportation Fair (CILF 2018) held on 11-13 […]
The German crane manufacturer Liebherr and the Karmsund Port Authority, Norway, have signed a contract for a mobile harbour crane LHM 550. With a maximum lifting capacity of up to 154 tonnes and an outreach of 54m, this machine will be the largest and the strongest mobile harbour crane in Norway. Liebherr LHM 550 will […]
Cosco-managed Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) urges the Greek government to speed up the approval of the investment plan aimed at attracting more business to Greece’s largest port, informs Reuters. The news agency quotes Captain Fu Chengqiu, PPA CEO, saying last Friday: “I am ready with cash and will wait until the end of this year. […]
Following the topic of the vital role that IT technology plays in the modern ports’ life, which was stressed by the recent cyber-attacks on the ports of Barcelona and San Diego, we cannot pass by the situation at Felixstowe and the vast consequences it is provoking in other UK and European ports. In mid-June, the […]
The international port equipment trading company PORTSSOLUTIONS has delivered a second-hand harbor mobile crane Liebherr LHM 550 to the Spanish port of Sevilla. This crane comes from Malabo (Guinee Equatorial) and will be employed by the stevedoring company Estibadora Sevillana that handles general cargo as well as dry bulk, liquid bulk and project cargo. Carlos […]
The Antwerp Port Authority is currently testing a fully autonomous sounding boat to carry out measurements of the water depth within the port. The vessel, named the Echodrone, was developed by Port of Antwerp in partnership with the Brugge-based maritime technology company dotOcean. This is one of the many initiatives underaken by the Antwerp Port […]
