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Revenue leapt by 80% for COSCO Shipping Ports (CSP) to US$495.5m in the first half of 2018, driven by increasing trade volume and more calls from the Ocean Alliance. Total throughput increased by 27% to 56.7m teu, including volumes from Qingdao Port International (QPI) which have been included since May 2017. Excluding QPI, throughput increased by 13.3% to 47.3m teu ... Read More »

Maersk Line has adopted a cloud-based platform which provides a digital and fully-automated method of sending contract rates and amendments to clients. The carrier will use Cargosphere’s electronic smart upload and diagnostics solution (eSUDS) its and Rate Mesh platform to digitally distribute its rates to shippers and freight forwarders. Carsten Grank Olsen, senior director and global head of eCommerce at Maersk Line, said: ... Read More »

Rotterdam’s APM Terminals (APMT) Maasvlakte II terminal has received two new ship-to-shore (STS) cranes as part of plans to increase capacity by 20% by 2019. The Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) cranes are high-speed, remote-control, double-trolley units with twin and tandem capabilities, as are the terminal’s eight existing cranes. Pieter Hartog, managing director of APMT Maasvlakte II and Rotterdam, said: “It ... Read More »

The Port of Hamburg’s container trade fell by 2.7% in the first half of the year, with dwindling empty box numbers impacting its 4.3m teu throughput. The number of empty boxes at the German facility fell by 15.6% to 525,000 teu, which subsequently translated to 81% of the total drop. Full containers remained relatively stable with a throughput of 3.8m teu, 0.6% ... Read More »

Container Corporation of India (Concor) has signed a deal to run weekly  trains from Kandla International Container Terminal (KICT) to various inland container depots across the country. Concor has been running trains between KICT and a depot in Jodhpur since February, and will now extend its services to depots in Ludhiana, Tuklakabad, Kodiyar and Khanej, among others. Concor will also ... Read More »

Konecranes has won a repeat order for ten rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes and two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes from the Port of Klaipeda, Lithuania. The order, made by the Lithuanian stevedoring company JSSC Klaipedos Smelte, will be delivered in two parts, with the RTG cranes arriving in Novemeber 2019 and the STS cranes arriving in December 2019. Rimantas Juška, general director of ... Read More »

Container volumes at the Port of Gothenburg rose by 19% in the first six months of the year, with throughput at the Swedish port growing to 378,000 teu. The growth is high resulting from the fact that last year’s figure was historically weak due to a labour dispute at APM Terminals (APMT) Gothenburg which impacted customers’ willingness to use the port. ... Read More »

Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) has placed an order for four reachstackers and  11 empty container handlers with Finnish manufacturer Kalmar for its terminals in Shanghai. The new equipment will join a fleet of 100 Kalmar reachstackers, empty container handlers, forklifts and terminal tractors upon their arrival in the third quarter of 2018. Alex Tang, sales director of Kalmar China, said: ... Read More »

  South Africa’s government-owned logistics company, Transnet, recorded a 6.1% increase in throughput in the 2017/18 financial year, handling 4.67m teu. The company also recorded a 6.5% increase in railed automotive and container volumes, and attributed both sets of growth to the deployment of new-generation locomotives on the network and continuing progress towards the road-to-rail strategy. Transnet has ordered 1,064 locomotives at ... Read More »

APM Terminals (APMT) recorded 7.9% increase in moves in the first half of the year, handling 7.6m equally-weighted moves (EqW). During the year’s second quarter, EqW were up by 7.6% to 4.2m, with APMT attributing the growth to the integration of Hamburg Süd with Maersk Line which subsequently prompted positive developments in Latin America. In the Americas, second quarter volumes ... Read More »