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Sluggish prospects for multipurpose ships

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In its latest outlook on the multipurpose shipping sector, Drewry Maritime Advisors predicted that while demand for multipurpose ships would be sluggish over the next two years or so, prospects for project cargo carriers would be better

Ocean inks new clause and plans schedules

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The members of the Ocean Alliance, which comprise China Cosco Shipping, CMA CGM, Evergreen and OOCL, have announced their service offerings and schedules for year three, and signed an extension clause

Open loop scrubber bans

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Singapore, key ports in China and Fujairah in the UAE have all recently announced bans on the use of open loop scrubbers in their coastal waters.

Cooking stink bugs before shipping

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HHLA affiliate Unikai has come up with what it claims is a unique method for preparing vehicles for pest-free transport to Australia and New Zealand.

Civitavecchia court judgement postponed

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The Lazio regional administrative court (TAR) has postponed until June a ruling on a dispute involving two operators in the Port of Civitavecchia, Roma Container Terminal (RCT), which is an affiliate of MSC, and Civitavecchia Fruit & Forest Terminal (CFFT), which is owned by Antwerp based port and logistics company Noord Natie

Conversion to CPEs

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Despite the ongoing uncertainty of its legality, the Port Employment Centre model (CPE) is still being adopted in Spanish ports as a replacement for the SAGEP model, which the European Court of Justice ruled to be illegal under EU competition law

Hoyer’s record spend

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Hoyer Group is to invest a record €173M in 2019, almost double the €90M it invested in 2018.

Nigeria concession

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Ocean & Cargo Terminal Services Ltd (OCTS) has been confirmed as the new operator of Terminal B in Warri Old Port, Nigeria

Bolivia to invest in Atlantic trade option

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The Bolivian Government is changing tack and, through a public-private partnership arrangement, is to invest in Puerto Busch, which is located on the Paraguay River in Eastern Bolivia.

UTC preparing to ‘separate’ Carrier

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United Technologies Corporation, the parent company of - Hoyer’s record spend Carrier Transicold, has provided some further clarity on the planned “separation activities” it announced last year.

First STS crane arrives at Vado

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The first ship-to-shore crane for APM Terminals’ new semi-automated terminal in Savona arrived from China early last month

MCI exits dry box building sector

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Maersk Container Industry (MCI) has announced that it will close its dry container manufacturing facility in Dongguan, China. The factory employs over 2,000 people

Bulk in boxes - 2 Mt in six months

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Last October, the containerised brown coal reception facility at Seve.en EC’s Chvaletice power plant in the Czech Republic passed the 2 Mt throughput mark, just six months after it was commissioned.

Investments in Odessa

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Container Terminal Odessa (CTO), the HHLA affiliate in Ukraine, has ordered two RTGs to operate in a CY extension it has under construction to increase storage capacity by 3,000 TEU to 19,000 TEU

BNSF lease at Oakland’s JIT

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The Port of Oakland has agreed to a new five-year lease with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) for the Joint Intermodal Terminal (JIT) at Oakland

Baltic ports in Germany square up

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A long-running dispute between the Port of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein and the port association of the neighbouring state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LVHM) is boiling over

RegioPort Weser gets into shape

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The new RegioPort Weser inland port on the Mittellandkanal near Minden in northwest Germany is taking shape, and its widespan crane from Kuenz has been assembled on site

Syria’s port of Tripoli powering onwards

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Three years ago, hardly a container was being handled at the northern Syrian port of Tripoli

Hybrids for HHLA

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HHLA has deployed the first two Konecranes Noell battery hybrid straddle carriers at its Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) in Hamburg.

LASE GmbH teams up with Malmedie in USA

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Malmedie USA has announced that it has been named as the exclusive representative for LASE GmbH in the United States.

Uddevalla investing

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The Swedish port of Uddevalla will invest in two new cranes this year – a rail-mounted unit with a maximum lift capacity of 80t under hook, and a smaller mobile harbour crane.

Pontoon-mounted crane

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UK-based Truck and Marine Cranes Ltd has designed and built a floating pontoon with a crane, powered by a low-noise Hatz 4L41C diesel engine, positioned in the middle, as a bespoke project for a customer.

Liebherr’s US calls

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Semi-automation features on four STS cranes that Liebherr Container Cranes recently handed to customers in the USA.

Hyster ECHs for Southampton and Wellington

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DP World Southampton has reported the arrival of two new Hyster ECH mast trucks as part of a planned equipment renewal programme.

O&KA for Bonfiglioli Riduttori

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Italy-based drives and reducer specialist Bonfiglioli Riduttori SpA has become the sole owner of O&K Antriebstechnik (O&KA), the German planetary gearbox specialist.

Kalmar lands Maher order

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Kalmar has reported an order for 26 straddle carriers from Maher Terminals LLC in the Port of New York/New Jersey.

CES reach stacker in service in Germany

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Verona, Italy-based variable wheelbase reach stacker manufacturer CES Srl has supplied its first machine, a model HLM 500 PB (piggyback), to a German customer, KSW. This has a first-row lift capacity under the spreader of 46t @ 1.7m LC.

Remote control quay cranes for Jintang

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Jintang International Container Terminal (JICT), part of Tangshan Port Group in Hebei, Northern China, has received five new STS cranes from ZPMC that are equipped with remote control and semi-automation technology.

New STS crane design is ABC

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US crane consultancy Liftech Consultants Inc. has launched a new STS crane concept called the Articulated Balance Crane (ABC) as an alternative to traditional Aframe STS crane structures for terminals where wheel loads, tiedown loads or excessive maintenance at the boom hinge point are issues for crane owners.

N4 for general cargo

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Navis is moving to boost the general cargo functionality in its flagship N4 TOS to cater for terminals that want to handle container and general cargo with the one system.

Records set on the west coast of USA

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Two North American records for the largest container exchange in a port call have been set in Los Angeles and Tacoma in recent weeks.

Transnet halts Durban Pier 2 upgrade project

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Transnet SOC has halted construction work on its more than ZAR7B (US$500M+) Durban Container Terminal Pier 2 berth modernisation, deepening and lengthening project.

Bolloré-led consortium wins Ibom tender

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A consortium comprising Parisbased Bolloré Africa Logistics (BAL) and PowerChina International Group (PCIG) has won the tender to build and operate the future Ibom Deep Sea Port (IDSP) in Akwa Ibom state in southeast Nigeria.

Baltimore considers full RTG conversion

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The Port of Baltimore and its terminal operator Ports America Chesapeake (PAC) are studying converting more of the Seagirt marine terminal to an RTG stacking operation.

Kolding in the cold

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Apparently out of the blue, the Danish municipality of Kolding in eastern Jutland has decided to shut down all freight activities at the port of Kolding no later than 2043, in order to redevelop the whole of the port estate for residential use

More automation for Oman’s port of Sohar

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Hutchison Ports Sohar has ordered remote-controlled STS and RTG cranes from ZPMC

Five vying for Chittagong terminal

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The Government of Bangladesh is considering proposals from five companies to build and operate a new container terminal at Chittagong

Remote reefer monitoring system for DPW Callao

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IDENTEC SOLUTIONS has won a contract to install its reefer monitoring system at DP World’s terminal in Callao, Peru.

Mega investments for DPW Antwerp

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DP World Antwerp is about to embark on an investment programme estimated at €197M at its Antwerp Gateway Terminal (AGT) in the Deurganckdok, to increase installed capacity from 2.5M TEU a year today to 3.4M TEU by 2023.

Genoa for MSC solo

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The consortium of MSC and Gruppo Investimenti Portuali (GIP) formed to take forward the Calata Bettolo deepwater container terminal project in the eastern part of the Port of Genoa has melted away

Genoa’s Circle and Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure sign new protocol

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Circle SpA, the Genoa-based port management services consultancy, has signed a special protocol with Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company, which manages the infrastructure of the public ports of national importance in Bulgaria.

New box weighing system

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At the Intermodal Europe exhibition in Rotterdam last month, Finland-based ConFoot Ltd presented a version of its container legs with integrated scales for weighing containers to meet the SOLAS verified gross mass (VGM) requirement

GDP reefers from Braun

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Braun Container Handels GmbH, the Hamburg-based container trader and leasing/rental specialist, has teamed up with the European Institute for Pharma Logistics (EIPL) to provide “GDP-qualified reefer containers” for sea transport, with immediate effect

APL expands Eagle GO premium services

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APL has expanded its Eagle GO Guaranteed premium service offering into the North America/ Latin America and Asia/Latin America trades.

New joint services on Asia/ECSA trade

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A combination of falling freight rates and regulatory requirements stemming from Maersk Line’s acquisition of Hamburg Süd last year have led to another round of service changes in the highly competitive Asia/East Coast South America liner trade. The net result will be a slight reduction in capacity deployed.

CMA CGM Group companies in intra-Asia consolidation move

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APL and Cheng Lie Navigation Company (CNC), both CMA CGM Group companies, have agreed a deal that will expand their trading position and improve their operating efficiency in the intra-Asia market

Lines move to address standards

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AP Møller-Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Ocean Network Express (ONE) have announced an important step towards standards for IT in container shipping

Izmir connects to BTK railway

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The port of Izmir in Turkey is to be directly connected to the Baku-TbilisiKars railway (BTK), a line of more than 840 km that links north-eastern Turkey with Georgia and Azerbaijan.

RZD starts new China/ Moscow rail service

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RZD Logistics, which is an operating arm of Russian Railways, is strengthening its ties with China, and intends offering additional rail services between interior cities in that country and Moscow.

Georgia makes another inland move

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Ports on the US East Coast are continuing to expand their inland terminal networks.

...high-speed freight service to Bologna

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Mercitalia, the freight arm of Italian Railways, has introduced a high-speed freight service between its terminal in Maddaloni- Marcianise (Caserta), around 30 km from Naples, and the multimodal freight platform (Interporto) in Bologna.

TerAlp intermodal project for Brescia...

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Hupac and Mercitalia plan to include Brescia in their TerAlp joint transalpine project, along with Milano Smistamento and Piacenza terminals, for which construction permits have already been obtained

Fargo Systems for iPort Rail

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Port Rail is using software from the UK’s Fargo Systems to run its new terminal in Doncaster, UK.

DB into Kepler satellite comms

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Deutsche Bahn AG has taken a stake in Canadian start-up Kepler Communications, through its affiliate DB Digital Ventures.

Nacco fleet for Nexiot telematics

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Following the completion of its takeover of Nacco, VTG AG, the railcar leasing, rail logistics and tank container logistics company, is migrating data into its own wagon management system.

Container terminal market heating up

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The level of M&A activity in the container terminal sector has ratcheted up a notch in recent months.

HAROPA to be unified

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The French government wants the HAROPA ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris to be unified into a single Grand Port Maritime (GPM) port authority by January 2021.

Full Mission trio for GlobalSim

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US-based crane simulator specialist GlobalSim has booked three new orders for its Full Mission crane simulators, which feature a full cabin configuration. One deal is with the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA), which has ordered a premium Full Mission system to provide training to crane operators on STS and RTG cranes.

Liebherr heavy crane for Rostock

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It transpires that the crane for the new heavy lift berth in the Port of Rostock (WorldCargo News, November 2018, p6) is a Liebherr TCC 78000 gantry crane, with a lifting capacity of up to 1,600t and a maximum lifting height of 112m. The structure is 164m tall.

Cavotec welcomes A New Day

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Cavotec is moving forward with the second phase of its “A New Day” restructuring plan, CEO Mikael Norin announced as the company delivered its Q3 Interim report.