A brand new service of three sailings a week between Belgium and Hull was announced yesterday by the UK’s leading port operator Associated British Ports (ABP). This service expansion is one of the results of significant investment in the Humber Container Terminals. The new Ghent to Hull connection is expected to bring an extra 30,000 […]
This week, the UK government has published the Department for Transport’s report on port connectivity, entitled “Transport infrastructure for our global future: a study of England’s port connectivity”. The analysis aims at examining the current level of access to ports, the key transport and economic corridors serving ports, how port connectivity issues are managed and […]
The European Union and Italian authorities are investigating a large-scale tax fraud by Chinese criminal gangs importing goods via the port of Piraeus, South China Morning Post informs. The news comes as the port’s majority stakeholder, China’s state-run company Cosco Shipping Ports faces problems in the USA with the takeover of Orient Overseas International Lines […]
The parties involved in container barge transport in the port of Antwerp signed yesterday a roadmap of structural measures to make this type of transportation more efficient and further develop it, the Antwerp Port Authority press service informs. The implementation plan includes concrete initiatives and structural solutions to allow for sustainable growth of the port […]
Bendezu Port Equipment GmbH, an international trading company offering second-hand port equipment, has recently sold a mobile harbour crane GOTTWALD HMK 300 EG from Belgium to be operated in the port of Sevilla, Spain. The second-hand crane with a maximum lifting capacity of 100 tons and a maximum radius of 50m, has one remote controlled […]
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), the leading European port and transport logistics group, has announced that it will use automated guided vehicles (AGVs) powered by lithium-ion batteries to move containers at its Container Terminal Alternwerder (CTA) between ships and the yard in future. The terminal has been testing a prototype of this container transporter […]
The Port of Felixstowe has taken delivery of its first two remote control ship-to-shore gantry cranes, the port’s press service informs. The new cranes were delivered on the Zhen Hua 23 from ZPMC in Shanghai. The new STSs are capable of working vessels with containers stowed 11-high and 24-wide on deck. Instead of being in […]
Two ports operated by Global Ports Holding Plc., the largest cruise port operator in the world, welcomed the Symphony of the Seas on her maiden voyage. Malaga Cruise Port and Barcelona Cruise Port Creuers Terminals hosted the Symphony of the Seas, which is the 25th ship of the Miami-based cruise line Royal Caribbean. Today, it is the largest cruise ship in the world with […]
Kalmar, part of Cargotec Corporation, has signed a deal with Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT) Gdansk in Poland to supply a total of five electrically powered RTG cranes with extensive customisation. The order also includes the supply of a spare parts package for the machines. The delivery is scheduled for early 2019. DCT Gdansk is Poland’s […]
Yesterday, 26 March 2018, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), the leading European port and transport logistics group, signed a contract to acquire Estonia’s leading stevedoring company Transiidikeskuse AS. Transiidikeskuse AS (TK) operates TK Muuga, the largest Estonian container terminal located at the port of Muuga on the Baltic Sea close to the country’s capital […]
