The port of Rotterdam has published its 9 months results this week, recording a 10.1% increase in container traffic compared to January-September 2016. In the first 9 months of 2017 the port handled 10.2 mln TEU, or 105.9 mln tonnes. The growth was attributed to the strong increase in the number of full containers, which […]
SpillTech AS, a Norwegian company developing environmental technology products, offers a new solution for collecting waste from the water surface in the ports, writes GreenPort. PortBin is based on a customised oil spill technology and works as a weir-type skimmer for floating garbage in ports’ “trash coves”. It creates a suction on the surface that […]
By the afternoon of 12 October, 95% of the total Durban Port area had been declared safe for navigation of vessels, but sounding surveys were still in progress along the C-Shed area and vessel movement was still suspended in that area, informs Durban’s daily The Mercury quoting Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), which manages the […]
Paceco España, Spain’s leading provider of container handling equipment, has recently been appointed once again by PSA Sines to design, construct and assemble an STS Portainer Malaccamax crane for the expansion of its container terminal. With an outreach of 70m for 24 rows of containers and a height under spreader of 48 m, it is […]
DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem is proceeding with his annual tour around West and North Africa calling at existing DP World facilities and meeting heads of the states and business leaders to explore trade links and solutions connecting Africa to the world, informs the company. Thus, Mr. Bin Sulayem met […]
Last Sunday, 1 October 2017, Catalonia held its controversial independence referendum, strongly opposed by the Spanish government but showing the majority of voters (90%) in favor of independence, although with just 42% of voter turnout. And while political analysts are now questioning what will happen next, let us dwell on the major implications of the […]
The Municipality of Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam Authority jointly launched a field lab for the development of applications and solutions based on blockchain technology – the BlockLab. The BlockLab, serving as a knowledge centre, will develop theoretical ideas, test them and work out into concrete opportunities in a real-world environment. Blockchain is a […]
The question of stevedoring rates in the Russian ports is again on the federal agenda. In mid-August, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to convert the port handling charges of Russian stevedoring companies into rubles as from 1 January 2018, but, as it often happens in Russian practice, “with certain provisos for particular situations and particular […]
Bendezu Port Equipment GmbH, an international trading company offering second-hand harbour equipment, has recently delivered a mobile harbour crane LIEBHERR LHM 150 from Poland to its customer in Portugal. The second-hand crane with a maximum lifting capacity of 40 tons and a maximum radius of 32m, has one remote controlled rotator equipped with a double […]
On 4 September, during the 2017 BRICS summit in Xiamen, China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPort) signed the share purchase agreement with TCP Participações S.A. (TCP) to acquire a 90% stake in TCP, the joint-venture that operates the port of Paranaguá, Brazil, informs the Group. The disclosed purchase price is 2.89 bln Brazilian reals (USD 925 […]
