Tag: Ro-Ro

Mobile to seek engineering projects for Ro-Ro terminal

Mobile Ro-Ro terminal

An automobile terminal will be constructed at the port of Mobile, USA, after the Alabama State Port Authority was awarded a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant of USD 12.7 mln from the US Department of Transportation (DOT). The Port Authority has been elaborating on the plans to convert an abandoned bulk handling facility […]

Kalmar to deliver low-emission terminal tractors to Livorno and Catania

Kalmar terminal tractor

Kalmar, part of Cargotec Group, will supply 9 terminal tractors to facilitate Ro-Ro operations at two Italian terminals of Onorato Armatori Group. The delivery is scheduled for Q2 2018. Milan-based Onorato Armatori S.p.A. is a leading European shipping operator providing passenger and freight maritime transportation by Moby, Tirrenia-CIN and Toremar shipping lines. The group employs […]

ICTSI to develop first Philippine Ro-Ro terminal

Cavite Gateway Terminal launch

Philippines-based port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), in partnership with the Philippine Department of Transportation have inaugurated the development of the country´s first container Ro-Ro barge terminal in Tanza, in the province of Cavite, reported ICTSI last Friday. Cavite Gateway Terminal (CGT) will be developed in line with the government’s national transport plan […]

Innovative car carrier handled at Petrolesport

Petrolesport Ro-Ro terminal (PLP) in St.Petersburg, Russia has finished unloading new E-Class vessels of United European Car Carriers (UECC), Europe’s leading short sea Ro-Ro operator, writes PortNews. The terminal successfully handled 3 vessel calls which brought 1,840 cars and 370 heavy trucks. The cargo was delivered to PLP within a regular service Southampton – Zeebrugge […]

A new Russian cruise port to be built in Kaliningrad

Pionersky cruise terminal

The borders of the port of Kaliningrad (Russia) have been extended to include the site for development of a new terminal in the town of Pionersky, writes PortNews agency quoting Victor Olersky, Deputy Minister of Russian Transport and Head of the Federal Agency “Rosmorrechflot”. According to him, the terminal’s construction is to commence in 2017. […]

BLG Logistics to handle cars in Bronka Port

The German automobile logistics provider BLG Logistics and LLC Fenix, owner and operator of Bronka Port (Russia), signed today a long-term cooperation agreement to handle automobiles of Volkswagen Group Russia at the Port of Bronka, as announced in BLG’s press release. With this agreement BLG transfers its terminal activities in Russia from the Sea Port […]