Headline news... Hutchison moves for Ceres Paragon again
Following months of rumour, Dutch and Flemish transport media have reported that Hutchison Port Holdings is preparing to sell NYK a 10% stake in one of the ECT, Rotterdam terminals in exchange for a 50% [plus one] stake in NYK's Ceres Paragon terminal in Amsterdam...MoreNew Brazilian port laws
Owners of the controversial Portonave box facility in Navegantes, Brazil breathed half a sigh of relief and half a sigh of resignation as President Luis Lula of Brazil signed into law a new decree that should clarify regulations in the South American country regarding building new port terminals...MoreBeira confronts silting
Ten years after winning a concession to operate the Mozambican port of Beira, Dutch firm Cornelder Holdings has revealed that it is not able to generate as much income from the venture as expected...MoreMaersk boss shows interest in Hapag-Lloyd
According to a report in Suddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Maersk's chairman Eivind Kolding has expressed interest in a takeover of Hapag-Lloyd....MoreProtests at Durban
South African hauliers have protested against long delays outside Durban Container Terminal...MoreFaiveley Transport Italy to validate "TrainDy"
The UIC has appointed Faiveley Transport Italia SpA to validate a software tool aimed at facilitating longer and heavier freight trains in Europe...MoreSt John cargo salvaged
Heavy lift specialist Irving Equipment recently salvaged two 107t turbine rotors that sank to the bottom of St John harbour in New Brunswick, Canada as they were being loaded to a barge....MoreFirst LNG-powered ro-ro
Norwegian operator Sea-Cargo AS is set to introduce two new gas-powered ro-ro vessels, believed to be the first of their type with a full LNG propulsion package....MoreNew container terminal planned for Ilyichevsk
The Ukrainian Port of Ilyichevsk is to go ahead with the construction of a new container terminal alongside its deepest berths (Nos. 1 and 2), with depth alongside of up to 13.5m....MoreWeyenberg plugs in
Weyenberg Group is now able to offer complete engineering and equipment supply for RTG electrification projects after adding Vancouver (BC)-based power connector manufacturer Patton and Cooke (P&C) to its partner network....MoreZabaikalsk reopens
TransContainer, the intermodal daughter of Russian Railways and Russia's leading rail-based container transport operator, has opened its renovated and expanded container terminal at Zabaikalsk, on the Sino-Russian border in the Russian Far East....MorePorts America packs punch
Ports America Baltimore, Inc, part of Ports America, is set to open its first on-dock packaging and warehousing facility, at Dundalk Marine terminal in the Port of Baltimore. The facility is aimed at serving the general cargo, automobile, boat, steel, and container operations market....MoreMore needed in Colombo
Sri Lanka's Colombo port needs to move fast to build new deepwater container terminals if it is to remain competitive, according to Amal Rodrigo, country manager of Maersk Lanka....MoreBandar Abbas up 15%
Due to additional available capacity and a strong market, traffic at Bandar Abbas, Iran's main container terminal, has continued to increase. The port handled 1,439,000 TEU between January and September this year, an increase of 15% on the same period of 2007. The port is expecting to handle around 2M TEU for the year as a whole....MoreBaltic port growth set to continue
The majority of the 44 seaport authorities in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) responded to the first Baltic Port Barometer survey, carried out in June-August 2008 by the Centre of Maritime Studies of the University of Turku, Finland, in co-operation with the Baltic Port Organisation (BPO)....MoreNZ coastal shipping assistance guidelines
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has released guidelines for access to funding to be made available under the national government's Sea Change policy, a programme announced in May that sets aside NZ$36M for coastal sea freight development over the next four years....MoreLD to launch cross channel service
LD Lines (Louis Dreyfus Armateurs) has received full approval from the Port of Dover for the introduction of its new Dover- Boulogne ro-pax service in 2009. Scheduled to start next July, the new service will provide four return sailings daily with a crossing time of 1h.45mins....MoreNew ICON ropax
Germany's Flensburger shipyard (FSG) presented a new and "futuristic" design for a ropax ferry at the SMM fair in Hamburg....MoreHapag-Lloyd stays in German hands
TUI has sold Hapag-Lloyd in a deal worth Euro4.45B (US$6B) that keeps the shipping line in German hands. The "Albert Ballin" consortium, led by Klaus-Michael Kuhne (who has a 25% stake), Wolfgang Peiner (a former Hamburg senator for finance) and Christian Olearius, a partner of M M Warburg Bank, has thus emerged "victorious," after Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines, the early favourite, dropped out of the auction....MoreNew African brand for Bollore
Logistics company Bollore Group has brought all of its African operations under a single subsidiary, known as Bollore Africa Logistics (BAL). However, the Bollore companies already operating in Africa, including Afritramp, Antrak, Saga, SDV, Socopao and Transami, most of which were acquired in the 1980s, will retain their existing names....MoreEimskip facing an icy outlook?
Icelandic shipping and cold storage group Eimskip is caught in a financial storm, partly brought on by an ambitious expansion programme, but acerbated by the financial chaos that has overtaken Iceland....MoreGE SeaCo sells UK storage business
GE SeaCo has sold its UK domestic static storage business, Containers4You, to Spacewise, a subsidiary of TAL International Container Corporation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....MoreGichner acquires CMCI
Gichner Systems Group Inc, a leading supplier of tactical military shelters to the US Armed Forces, has acquired Sea Containers' US container manufacturing arm, Charleston Marine Containers Inc (CMCI). Terms of the deal were not disclosed....MoreSteel appeal from Langh
Finland-based steel shipping specialist Langh Ship has launched two new containers purpose-designed for the transport of steel coils....MoreTalking Turkey
Talke Logistic Services, a leading logistics service provider for the chemical and petrochemical industries, has launched operations at its first location in Turkey. The new Istanbul facility will be used as the base for expanding Talke's offerings in Turkey and accelerating development of the south eastern European market....MoreNew man takes the helm at SeaAxis
Trailer and swap body lessor Axis Intermodal has announced the appointment of Clive Francis as managing director of its marine container division SeaAxis....More
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Zero emissions AGV that decouples on the quay
TTS has come up with a new AGV for automated container terminals....MoreMulti-purpose option from Phaeros
Belgian software developer Phaeros is looking to fill a market niche with a TOS that manages containerised and general cargo in a single application....MoreMelbourne overflowing with boxes
Australia's largest container port handled a daily average of more than 6,600 containers in August to set a new national monthly volume record - but this level of throughput is causing indigestion in some parts of the port container chain....MoreRukert takes Tideworks
Tideworks Technology is to install its Genoa breakbulk management system at Rukert Terminals in the Port of Baltimore. Rukert operates a 130 acre facility, which specialises in ores, fertiliser and other dry bulks and break bulk cargoes, while also handling containers and heavy lifts. Rukert will be the first deployment for Genoa on the US east coast outside of the Carrix terminals operated by Tideworks' sister company SSA Marine....MorePutting an end to maintenance fees
New Jersey-based software consultancy Advent Inc has completed development of a terminal management system for Ceres Terminals Inc's Port of Charleston, Columbus Street and North Charleston Terminals....MoreMaking data perform better
Port management can benefit from more timely access to operational information and software developers are responding with different business intelligence tools....MoreOz ports coping with rising box volumes
Growth in traffic through Australia's five main ports may not be generating the kind of headline-grabbing figures seen in some parts of the world but it is robust nevertheless....MoreUS mandates mechanical security solution
Tighter global container security is in prospect as US authorities enforce new legislation from mid-October that effectively requires all US-bound containers to be fitted with a mechanical security seal of ISO/PAS 17712 as a minimum standard....MoreClouds gather over a nervous market
There is still guarded optimism regarding the state of the project cargo shipping market and operators are continuing to order new ships, but the current financial crisis has inevitably led to some uncertainty....MoreTSB takes two
Korea'a Total Softbank (TSB) has won important contracts with Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) and the Port of Gothenburg to replace existing TOS products with its own software....MoreLNG yard tractors - a pale shade of green
Due to disappointing emission results and, meantime, the emergence of the promising all-electric hostler, the prospects for LNG-powered yard tractors may not be as rosy as previously thought....MoreRTG production picks up again
The global RTG supply industry has been kept busy in 2008, with 614 cranes already due for delivery this year, compared with 681 in 2007 and a record 976 in 2006. The outlook for 2009 is even stronger, with over 500 already booked....MoreAruba's dense outdoor WLAN strategy
Aruba Networks claims it can deliver customers in the transport, intermodal and port markets an improved level of WLAN performance with its "dense outdoor deployment strategy"....MorePort Botany put on notice
The New South Wales Government has effectively told the Port Botany container logistics chain to improve its performance or face a variety of sanctions....MoreContainer terminals not so rugged
Panasonic Toughbooks are widely used in the field by the US Government and Marine Corps, but Panasonic gained its first exposure to the port market recently when APMT approached it looking for a thin client tablet PC to run specially developed screens from Navis SPARCS at its Portsmouth Virginia Terminal. Panasonic won out over the more "traditional" ruggedised computer vendors with its CF-08 Toughbook and this success has turned the company's focus to the marine and intermodal markets....MorePutting a premium on mobility
There has been plenty of mobile harbour crane business around this year and more new markets have been opened up....MoreCoastal operators fight on
The Australian Government's Parliamentary Inquiry into Coastal Shipping Policy and Regulation is due to report back this month (October) and expectations are high that a new fiscal and regulatory environment, supportive of locally-domiciled operators, will eventuate....MoreRolling along with the black stuff
Value for money, not price, is the key issue with tyres and wheels....MorePunta Colonet: tomorrow or manana?
Doubts remain about the viability and rationale of a megapuerto at Colonet Bay, but meanwhile progress is being made at existing Mexican ports, spurred by public and private sector investments....MoreWA election surprise revives James Point
The unexpected defeat of Western Australia's Labour Government in last month's state elections has flagged the demise of container handling in Fremantle's Inner Harbour and the rebirth of private port developer James Point Pty Ltd....More
