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 […]
Associated British Ports, the UK’s leading port operator, has announced that it partners with Rolls Royce and Svitzer, a leading provider of harbour and terminal towage, to develop the next generation of port technologies. A tri-party Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), was initiated by Mike McCartain, ABP’s Director of Marine & Compliance, and signed during a […]
China has approved an extended 3-year programme aimed to decrease the coal consumption in 82 cities by year 2020 by 5-10% as compared to the 2016 level, the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti informs. This may lead to a significant drop in coal prices by 2020-2021. The average coal price in the first 6 months of […]
The Port of Tallinn (AS Tallinna Sadam) has announced an auction for the equipment of the coal terminal located on two land plots in Muuga Harbour. The equipment is listed in the Annex to the Notice of Auction and includes a stacker, a reclaimer, railway tracks for these, a ship loader, band conveyors and wagons […]
Following the arrest of Ziavudin Magomedov and his brother Magomed, the owners of Summa Group and major players in the Russian transport sector, on 31 March 2018, the Tverskoy court in Moscow seized their assets, which included 4 vehicles, 2 apartments as well as shareholding and bank accounts of many companies owned by Summa. Among […]
The European Commission has accepted the proposal of the Spanish Ministry of Public Works and Transport to expand the Atlantic and Mediterranean Corridors within the Trans-European Transport Network to include the Spanish ports that were kept beyond the TEN-T so far. These ports are Gijon, La Coruna, Huelva, Las Palmas, Tenerife and Palma de Mallorca, […]
The international port trading company PORTSSOLUTIONS has delivered a Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour crane from the port of Bata in Guinea Equatorial to the stevedoring company GMS in the port of Sfax in Tunisia. This crane is the biggest Mobile Harbour Crane in the country of Tunisia and in North Africa. Sfax is located […]
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 […]
Container throughput of Russian seaports in January-March 2018 continued growing: +12.6% to the same period of 2017. The ports overall handled 1.198 mln TEU, reports InfraNews agency quoting the data of the Russian Sea Commercial Ports Association. The first quarter last year also recorded a rather high increase over 2016: +11.8%. This demonstrates a gradual […]
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 […]
