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Nile Dutch Africa Line (NileDutch) has gone live globally with Allegro, CyberLogitec’s integrated container carrier operations solution. The carrier, which specialises in West Africa services, is looking to accelerate operational efficiency and harness real-time data for critical decisions and effective resource deployment. In summer 2018, NileDutch procured Allegro, attracted by its algorithms for automated data capture and resilient service network. ... Read More »

Kalmar has signed a Software Maintenance and Support Agreement with PSA Singapore which covers its entire automated guided vehicle (AGV) for five years. The agreement was booked in Cargotec’s Q3 2019 order intake and the contract will be in effect from Q4 2019 onwards. PSA Singapore’s AGV fleet is expected to grow to over 400 units by the completion of ... Read More »

Abidjan Terminal has ended the Ivory Coast’s 2019 export season with a strong performance in the handling of cocoa, rubber and cashews according to Bolloré Ports. The facility, which Bolloré operates under a concession agreement, provides opportunities to local farmers to export goods to Europe and Asia. Thanks to the Vridi Channel expansion works, the largest two vessels in Abidjan ... Read More »

South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) have been awarded a US$2m grant to upgrade the engines on 12 rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes. The grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant programme will help to equip the port’s RTGs with hybrid battery/genset engine systems, replacing ... Read More »

A new hinterland connection between Cosco Shipping Port Zeebrugge Terminal (CSP) and the Port of Duisburg has been completed, which has allowed regular transport of goods to start between the two facilities. Cosco Shipping Lines has expanded its activities as part of the “Belt & Road” initiative with two weekly maritime connections from China to Zeebrugge which has allowed Duipsort ... Read More »

DP World has appointed a new CEO of UK operations, Ernst Schulze, who will oversee the Southampton and London Gateway container terminals, the Logistics Park at London Gateway and Community Network Services (CNS). Schulze has moved from Ecuador where he had been heading up the development of DP World Posorja, which will sit adjacent to a 100 ha logistics zone ... Read More »

Sixteen ports across England will receive a share of a £10m (US$12m) funding pot to help their preparations for Brexit, which is still set for October 31. The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced the successful bidders for the Port Infrastructure Resilience and Connectivity (PIRC) competition, with Felixstowe, London Gateway, Liverpool and Southampton among the winners. Aside from the UK’s ... Read More »

The largest ports on the US West Coast have written a joint letter to President Trump arguing that escalating the ongoing trade war with China will create “irredeemable economic harm” throughout the US. The six ports which wrote the letter – the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland Portland, Seattle and Tacoma – handle 38% of all US exports ... Read More »

CMA CGM has launched the first of its’ fleet of nine French-flagged 23,000 teu Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) vessels, the CMA CGM Jacques Saade, which is currently the world’s largest LNG-powered containership. The vessel will join CMA CGM Group’s fleet in 2020 on the French Asia Line (Asia-Northern Europe) and will be registered in the French International Register (RIF), confirming ... Read More »

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) must keep a controlling stake in East Container Terminal (ECT) to ensure it runs a deep-water facility in the Port of Colombo according to Sagala Ratnayaka, Sri Lanka’s minister of ports and shipping. The existing state-run facilities at the port – Jaya Container Terminal (JCT) and Unity Container Terminal (UCT) – do not have ... Read More »