The Dubai-based global port operator has announced a disruptive technology that would radically improve operations, efficiency and capacity at container terminals. The world’s first multi-storey container stacking system is suggested by the joint-venture formed by DP World and SMS group, a German family-owned industrial engineering company. The new technology will be first implemented at DP […]
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 […]
Maersk Line informs that one of its newest containerships – Mumbai Maersk – has set a world record for highest-ever load by loading 19,038 TEU, thus surpassing the 19,000-mark for the very first time – not only for a Maersk vessel, but any vessel in the world. The second generation Triple-E ship left the APM […]
Gulftainer, a privately owned United Arab Emirates port operator, registered a record gross crane productivity of 32.2 crane moves per hour in April 2018 at its flagship gateway terminal, Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT), in Port Khalid, informs Thomson Reuters Middle East edition Zawya. Compared to the industry average of 25 crane moves per hour, this significant […]
Navis, a leading provider of operational technologies for terminal operators and ocean carriers (part of Cargotec Corporation), has announced this week that Brazilian Tecon Rio Grande container terminal (Tecon RG), a subsidiary of Wilson Sons Group, successfully upgraded to the N4 terminal system. Focusing on modernizing operations, Tecon RG has recently invested over USD 40 […]
A new container handling system has been announced by UK-based ports consultants, writes Maritime Executive. The locking system, called BLOK-BEAM, enables a standard single spreader ship-to-shore crane to lift and transport six containers as one single block. BLOK-BEAM comprises a pair of steel beams unitizing three containers horizontally, three more can be interconnected directly below. […]
The productivity at the top 30 global container ports increased by only 2% between the first half of 2014 and the same period of 2016, writes IHS Fairplay. The study carried out by CTI Consultancy is based on port call data from 74% of the world’s container fleet operators and ship tracking satellite data by […]
