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 […]
Hutchison Ports Pakistan, the country’s first deep-water container terminal, has set a new vessel handling record for the port of Karachi, having handled 5,862 moves in just over 27 hours while servicing the 8,652 TEU Hyundai Brave. During the vessel’s stay, the terminal achieved a vessel operating rate of 212.16 container moves per hour and […]
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 […]
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 […]
The world’s largest container vessel MOL Triumph owned by Japanese shipping line Mitsui O.S.K Lines, Ltd. (MOL) called at Hongkong International Terminals (HIT) last Saturday during its maiden voyage, informs the terminal. MOL Triumph has a capacity of 20,170 TEU and is the first ever containership exceeding the 20,000 TEU capacity limit. It is 400m long and 58.8m […]
On February, 10, container terminal operator Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) published its 2016 results. The throughput of its deep-water ports fell by 6% as compared with year 2015. The volumes of Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) dropped by 4%, to 11.697 mln TEU (12.166 mln TEU in 2015). The combined throughput of its Hong […]
COSCO Shipping Ports Limited (Cosco) and Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPHT) announced on Monday, 19th of December, of an agreement to jointly manage 3 terminal operating companies in the port of Hong Kong. The agreement concerns COSCO-HIT Terminals (Hong Kong) Limited (CHT), which is held 50/50 by Cosco and HPHT through intermediary companies and owns […]
The global terminal developer and operator Hutchison Ports signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ukraine’s Sea Commercial Port Chernomorsk (formerly known as Ilyichevsk) on the Black Sea, as announced by the port’s press release. The document was signed during the visit of the Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan to the UK, in particular […]
