Hill International, a US leading construction consulting company, has received a contract from APM Terminals MedPort Tangier S.A. to provide project management and supervision engineering services during the construction of a new container facility at the Tangier-Med Port Container Terminal in Morocco, announced Hill’s press release of December, 05. The two-year contract has an estimated value […]
The Supreme Court of Panama rejected the appeal made by Panama Ports Company (PPC) that the tender for the Port of Corozal infringes constitutional guarantees, writes Port Strategy. As we wrote earlier, the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) had selected 4 global port operators to compete for the concession to design, construct and operate Corozal Container […]
Heyl & Patterson (USA), the global leader in manufacturing world-class bulk material handling equipment, dispatched two tandem railcar dumpers for the largest Russian coal terminal JSC “Vostochny Port” (Russia) writes the port’s press release. The new equipment, of the total cost exceeding USD 7 mln, was shipped from Huston (USA) in late November and is […]
The Cadiz Bay Port Authority (Cadiz, Spain) will invest EUR 20.7 mln in 2017 in various works, listed in the multiannual Investment Plan, as they have been approved in the corporate business plan for the next fiscal year by the Board of Directors which held its meeting this week, announces the Port Authority’s press release. […]
During the visit of Dutch Prime Minister Rutte to Indonesia, the Port of Rotterdam Authority signed two important agreements for port construction. According to Port of Rotterdam’s press release of today, one is a joint venture agreement with the Indonesian state-owned port corporation Pelindo 1. The main purpose of this JV is to prepare the […]
Russian JSC “United Grain Company” (UGC) has set up its 100% subsidiary – Far-Eastern Grain Terminal Ltd, with the aim to design and build a grain handling facility in the sea port of Zarubino (200 km to the south of Vladivostok, 70km to the Russia-China border), as announced in UGC’s press release of November 11. […]
On Friday, 4 November 2016, a new deep water container terminal Liverpool2 was officially opened at the Port of Liverpool by the Secretary of State for International Trade, Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP. The facility is one of the UK’s largest private sector infrastructure projects, being a UKP 400 mln (USD 500 mln) investment […]
The second deepwater berth (T2) of the container terminal DCT Gdansk in Poland was opened on 24 October 2016. The new berth, 650 meters long and 16.5 m deep, is equipped with 5 modern and largest in the Baltic region STS cranes able to handle ultra large ships of over 20,000 TEU and 15 fully […]
The Panama Canal Authority has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to four pre-qualified port operators selected to compete for the concession to design, develop, finance, construct, operate and maintain Corozal Container Terminal, writes Port Strategy. The four shortlisted companies are the global major terminal operators APM Terminals, PSA International, Terminal Link, and Terminal Investments […]
At the international forum Sochi-2016 last week Tuapse Sea Commercial Port (TSCP) and the Administration of Krasnodar region of Russia signed a letter of intent to invest 3.6 bln rubles (apprx. USD 58 mln) into the reconstruction of the grain terminal complex. The project will involve construction of 7 metal silos for storage of grain cargo, […]
