DP World handled 33.9m teu across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first half of 2020, with gross container volumes decreasing 5.3% year-on-year on a reported basis and down 3.9% on a life-for-like basis. Its terminals handled 20m teu on a consolidated level during the first half of 2020, increasing 2.4% on a ...

Benin Terminal, the operator of the container terminal at the Port of Cotonou, has welcomed a 300 m container vessel, making it the largest ship to have ever berthed at the port. Maersk’s CCNI Arauco has a loading capacity of 8,700 teu and weights more than 100,000 tonnes, sailing under the Hong Kong flag. Thanks ...

US port authorities have advocated for critical relief to manage the “extremely negative impacts” on the seaport industry brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic as US policymakers begin negotiations on the next coronavirus aid package. Letters have been sent to the US House, Senate and Administration leaders urging them to provide US$1.5bn for seaport...

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has initiated a focused inspection campaign targeting cargo securing arrangements on container ships visiting Australian ports in response to several recent serious incidents involving shipping containers lost overboard. These incidents include the losses of 81 containers off Newcastle by the YM Effic...

Container throughput dipped by 7% at the Port of Rotterdam in the first half of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic led shipping lines to blank a significant number of sailings. Although carriers cancelled up to 20% of all services in May and June, the decline in volumes was nevertheless less pronounced due to the increased ...

Pakistan International Container Terminal Services (PICT) has welcomed the newly launched UAE-Indian subcontinent-Gulf feeder service (UIG) with an inaugural call at the Port of Karachi. The feeder service is a joint initiative between Abu Dhabi Ports’ Safeen Feeders and Singapore-based Bengal Tiger Line which covers two loops from the UAE to the I...

P&O Ferrymasters has launched a specialist consultancy service to help customers manage complex supply chain challenges through data-driven insights. The expansion of its pan-European logistics solutions business will make the company’s in-house expertise available to existing and future customers, offering tailormade advisory solutions. The in...

A new initiative aimed at accelerating the transition to a new zero global economy and backed by nine major companies, including A.P. Moller – Maersk, has been established. Known as Transform to Net Zero, the initiative intends to develop and deliver research, guidance and implementable roadmaps to enable all business to achieve net zero emissions...

Port Everglades has received unanimous approval on its 20-Year Master/Vision Plan Update from Broward County, featuring a lengthened ship turn-around area, new cargo berths and cranes. The Board of County Commissioners approved the plan, updated from 2014, which is a comprehensive blueprint for five, ten and 20 years of development and capital impr...

The Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as Nhava Sheva, is now operational, as the hub at Navi Mumbai looks to boost exports by enabling port-led industrialisation. Five units have started construction activities, while two of them are operational at the SEZ, which is situated on 277 ha of free hold ...

DP World Lirquen has ordered a total of nine mobile machines from Kalmar, with delivery scheduled to be staggered throughout the fourth quarter of 2020. The order was booked in the second quarter and comprises of two Kalmar G generation reachstackers, one Kalmar U generation reachstacker for handling laden containers and six Kalmar Ottawa T2 ...

A custom-designed Liebherr LHM 600 mobile harbour crane (MHC) is in operation at Port Canaveral, enabling the efficient handling of all kinds of heavy cargo including space components as well as containers. The unit, which is the largest MHC in the US with a lifting capacity of 154 tonnes and 58 m boom reach, has ...

South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT) has become the first terminal in Sri Lanka to join TradeLens and digitalise its supply chain. The platform, which has been jointly developed by A.P. Moller – Maersk and IBM, will help in accelerating the digitisation agenda of the shipping industry in Sri Lanka by transforming manual, paper-based and time-consumi...

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and the Port of Braunschweig’s operating company have begun a strategic partnership, aiming to promote environmentally friendly inland waterway shipping in hinterland container transport between Hamburg and the inland port in Lower Saxony. The Port of Hamburg is the largest rail port in Europe and while rail-b...

Despite impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Carolina (SC) Ports Authority managed to finish the fiscal year 2020 with relatively steady volumes compared to the previous fiscal year. From July through to January, SC Ports was on track to achieve yet another record fiscal year until the pandemic hit and caused global disruption to ...

China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPort) has signed an agreement with Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) to implement the Chinese company’s terminal operating system (TOS) at the Greek port. According to the agreement, ThPA will be the first European port to install CM Chip – a terminal management system featuring a TOS developed by the operator’s su...

Eurogate’s Container Terminal Bremerhaven (CTB) has implemented Navis’ N4 terminal operating system (TOS) in order to modernise and to improve customer services and boost terminal performance. Located in North West Germany and directly on the North Sea, CTB handles approximately 2.3m teu annually and accommodates some of the largest container ships...

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has created obstacles for supply chains and hindered manufacturing, companies such as Prysmian Group, which have not outsourced production, have been able to keep operations running with no interruptions. The manufacturer of cables that are designed to cater towards crane electrification, has promoted the ‘Made In Ger...

The Port of Long Beach had an 11.1% year-on-year drop in container volumes for June due to a lower demand for goods and cancelled sailings related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Total volume for June 2020 was 602,180 teu with imports declining by 9.3% to 300,714 teu and exports down 12.2% to 117,538. Decreased consumer spending ...

The Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (HKSPA) has received the HMM Gdansk, the world’s largest container vessel, on its maiden call to Hong Kong at Kwai Tsing Container Terminal 7. As part of THE Alliance’s Far East Europe 3 service, the vessel departed Busan in late June before calling at Ningbo, Yanghsan, Xiamen, Kaohsiung and then ...

Bolloré Ports’ Conakry Terminal has commissioned the Kagbelen inland container depot with the aim to boost the competitiveness of the Guinean supply chain. The 30 ha facility represents an overall cost of €1.7m (US$1.9m) and includes a specially laid out 5 ha area with a storage capacity of over 2,000 vehicles which, as a priority, stores ...

Governments from across the world have pledged to urgently resolve issues for seafarers that have arisen due to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially the critical need to continue conducting crew changes throughout the world. At least 200,000 seafarers are estimated to require immediate repatriation in addition to a similar number of seafarers that urg...

Kuenz has brought 42 automatic stacking cranes (ASCs) into full operation at Tanger Med 2, the new automated terminal at the Port of Tanger in Morocco. Having been awarded a contract by the terminal operator APM Terminals (APMT), the cranes were delivered over the first two phases of the project from 2017-2019. The cranes, which ...