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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 port 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 »

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 »

Concessions agreements with maritime giants such as MSC and COSCO Shipping Ports (CSP) helped Khalifa Port deliver container volume growth of 82% in the first half of 2019. The port, run by Abu Dhabi Ports, handled 1.14m teu in the first six months of the year, fuelled predominantly through the MSC concession agreement, which was signed last year. The operators ... Read More »

Carrier Transicold has introduced the industry’s first container refrigeration unit controller with wireless connection capability, enabling shipping line personnel to monitor and access operations from a smartphone or tablet. The manufacturer hopes that the new Micro-Link 5 controller will help improve visibility, diagnostics, convenience and productivity for customers. The controller allows personnel to interface with refrigerated containers via Carrier Transicold’s ... Read More »

COSCO Shipping Ports (CSP) has agreed to sell its stakes in three Chinese terminals to Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) for a combined RMB1.0bn (US$150m). The operator is selling its interests in Nanjing Longtan Terminal, Yangzhou Yuanyang Terminal and Zhangjiagang Terminal while also announcing that it intends to sell interests in Taicang International Container Terminal and Jiangsu Petrochemical Terminal. The ... Read More »

McLaughlin & Harvey has been awarded the contract to deliver the next phase of development at the Liverpool2 deep-water container terminal. The multi-million project will significantly increase the footprint of the site and see the addition of ten cantilever rail-mounted gantry cranes (CRMGs) and three ship-to-shore (STS) cranes. The STS cranes are scheduled to arrive in November 2019 with the ... Read More »

A new study released by the OECD and the International Transport Forum (ITF) has claimed that the current system of direct and indirect maritime subsidies is failing taxpayers. The report recommends redesigning subsidies schemes to harmonise policies, clarify objectives, make them more conditional on positive impacts, avoid market distortions and improve transparency. The authors noted: “The nature of the maritime ... Read More »

Generator sets (gensets) from Thermo King are now available as part of the rental offering from Thornton Group, Antwerp, a Belgium-based provider of services to the refrigerated container industry. According to the manufacturer, the operational flexibility that comes with the offering is specifically important for transporters and customers moving temperature sensitive goods on sea and land seasonally that do not ... Read More »

The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) plans to double capacity at the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal to 11m teu per year, as US East Coast ports continue in their efforts to become more competitive on multiple trade routes. The Port of Savannah moved a record 4.5m teu in the 2019 fiscal year, a 7% increase, with the hub handling ... Read More »