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JV boost for Shanghai

In a bid to boost intermodal rail traffic handled at the port of Shanghai, a new joint-venture company has been established by Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG - 45%), China Cosco Shipping Corp (20%), National Railway Administration of China and China Railway Container Transport Corp Ltd. The latter two companies are believed to have a 10% shareholding.

VTG introduces rCE Powerpack

Multimodal transport and logistics operator VTG is now marketing the Swiss-designed rCE Powerpack, for temperaturecontrolled transport of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals and other sensitive cargoes by rail.

China and Nepal agree transit trade deal

China’s President Xi Jinping and Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari have signed a protocol agreement that will allow the latter country’s importers and exporters to use a select number of Chinese ports and road/rail hubs to move their goods.

Primorsk development plan

Russia’s key Baltic oil pipeline port, Primorsk, is set to become a major new general cargo port, under the plans announced by a new company, Multipurpose Reloading Complex Ltd (PUPK) and the St Petersburg regional government.

Bulk ship-unloader job for Kalmar in Malaysia

Although globally associated with container handling equipment, Cargotec-owned Kalmar has been awarded a contract to perform a comprehensive refurbishment of two bulk shipunloader cranes for Malaysian flour-milling company Malayan Flour Mills Berhad (MFM)

Hindustan Infralog acquires KRIL

Hindustan Infralog (HI), the joint venture entity established between DP World and India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, has acquired 76% of Kribhco Infrastructure Ltd (KRIL), an integrated multimodal logistics company based in Noida.

Expansion at Klaipeda

Klaipedos Smelte, the MSC-backed container terminal operator in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda, will invest around €65M in 2019 to increase annual capacity to 800,000 TEU.

Post-Brexit customs compliance

Vartan, a consultancy firm that specialises in Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) compliance, is urging British ports to get their “house in order” to prepare for the possibility of a disorderly UK exit from the EU.

First 1,000 Wh/kg batteries from Innolith

Switzerland-based Innolith AG has announced that it is developing “the world’s first 1,000 Wh/kg rechargeable battery” that would be capable of powering an electric vehicle (EV) for over 1,000 km on a single charge.

Hoppecke establishes Li-ion specialist unit

Germany-based Hoppecke has set up a new division, known as Intilion, to focus on its Lithiumion storage technology business. The new division is based in Zwickau and Paderborn

PSA AGVs - corrigendum

In the March edition of WorldCargo News (p1), we reported that PSA had placed orders for 160 AGVs, with 80 machines to be supplied by VDL Group and the other 80 by Singapore’s ST Engineering, pursuant to its licensing agreement with Gaussin Manugistique

Adani secures Myanmar concession

India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) has won a 50-year build-operate-transfer concession to develop a new container terminal in the Ahlone Township in Yangon, Myanmar

GlobalSim supplies trimodal simulator

Simulator specialist GlobalSim has announced that it has signed an agreement with Duisburger Hafen AG (Duisport) in Duisburg, Germany, to build and install a custom Full Mission crane simulator to train trimodal crane operators

Hutchison Ports reaches 50

Hutchison Ports announced at its 50th anniversary cocktail reception that it has become the world’s first operator to achieve a cumulative global throughput of 1.3B TEU

San Pedro terminals hold off on buying electric tractors

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have completed a draft electric vehicle blueprint to support their ambitious target for up 100% of all cargo handling equipment to be zero-emission by 2030, and they are making plans for charging infrastructure.

Gdynia builds for the future

Poland’s second largest box port hopes to have built a new larger container handling complex by 2027

Incentive for Vasco da Gama

Portugal’s minister of the sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, has told parliament that the tender for the future Vasco da Gama container terminal at the Port of Sines should come with a 50-year concession, as opposed to the usual 30 years.

Kalmar straddles for Medcenter terminal

Kalmar is to supply 32 dieselelectric straddle carriers to Italy’s Medcenter Container Terminal, now part of MSC (through TIL).

HHMC muscles in on crane deals

China’s Qingdao Haixi Heavyduty Machinery Co Ltd (HHMC) is a growing force in the container crane market

Second wind for Port of Longview, Oregon

The Port of Longview in Oregon, USA, is getting a second surge of cargo from wind farm projects in the Pacific Northwest.

Rail shuttle routes for port of Norvik

Ports of Stockholm Ltd (SHAB) has reported that its new port in Norvik, which is slated to open in May 2020, could have rail shuttle routes to the Swedish centres of Insjön, Borlänge, Eskilstuna and Hallsberg.

New autonomous vehicles

While the early optimism that autonomous vehicles would soon be seen on public roads has faded, there are still high hopes from some OEMs and terminal operators that autonomous tractors and AGVs will be able to operate in container terminals without requiring a separate fenced-off zone in the near future.

RAM Intermodal is rebranded as MRI Intermodal Software

Intermodal asset management software specialist RAM Intermodal is rebranding to adopt the name of its parent company, MRI Software, and will now be known as MRI Intermodal Software.

Trelleborg moves to fend off duff fenders

Faced with cheap competition, Trelleborg’s marine and infrastructure division has launched a four-step guide to authenticating fenders

Trifleet Leasing to double its cryogenic tank container fleet

Dordrecht (Netherlands)-based Trifleet Leasing is to take delivery of 20 additional specialist cryogenic tank containers by the end of June 2019

Shiploader collapses at Patillos in Chile

Authorities in Chile are looking into what caused the dramatic collapse of a fixed mechanical dry bulk shiploader at the Port of Patillos on 16 May

London Medway plan

Peel Ports has invested £5.5M in a new ro-ro ramp at London Medway.

Dole moves on reefer monitoring

Globe Tracker has announced that it has deployed IoT devices installed on reefer containers owned by the Dole Food Company. Commenting to WorldCargo News, Don Miller, head of sales at Globe Tracker, confirmed that the order is a pilot project involving installations on 500 reefers “with the goal of proving the return on investment to enable a full deployment in the future”

New port for Kisumu

A new US$140M port with two multipurpose berths is to be built on the northeast reaches of Lake Victoria in Kenya

Anaklia moves forward

The new very large deepsea general-purpose port, together with its special economic zone, planned for Anaklia in Georgia has ordered its first cranes

New terminal

A new intermodal rail terminal is to be built at Neumünster in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany.

Tollerort ‘Fit4Future’

Over the Easter weekend (20-21 April), HHLA’s IT experts installed the Navis N4 TOS at its Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) in Hamburg

Expansion for Concor

Container Corporation of India (Concor), which is the country’s largest multimodal transport company, is stepping up its investment programme

ZIM orders MCI reefers

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has announced an order of 500 Star Cool Integrated Reefers from Maersk Container Industry (MCI).

More CPEs in Spain

The Department of Justice and Labour of the autonomous Basque Government has given permission for the Port of Bilbao’s SAGEP (stevedoring company), Bilbaoestiba, to convert into a CPE (port employment centre

Lagos-Kakuri service begins

In May, regular rail services began between Lagos and the Kaduna Inland Dry Port (KIDP) at Kakuri in northern Nigeria. This was almost 18 months after the facility was opened in January 2018

GCT Vanterm announces upgrade

Global Container Terminals Inc (GCT) has announced a major upgrade for its Vanterm terminal in Vancouver, British Columbia.

APMT’s land withdrawal

APM Terminals is to transfer its inland services division, which comprises 36 business units and operations in over 100 locations across the globe, to affiliate Maersk Logistics and Services

Berth record set by PSA

PSA Singapore set a new record at Terminal 3 in Pasir Panjang this month when it achieved a gross berth productivity rate of 465 moves per hour on the mette maersk

Turkey looks to rail for transit cargo

Turkey, which has ports on both the Black Sea and Mediterranean coastlines, is looking at how best to tap into the opportunities afforded by the Central Asia transit trade and the increase in land-based freight flows to/from China.

SLPA statement on MoC

Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has issued a “clarification” about the new Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the governments of Sri Lanka, Japan and India on the future of the new East Container Terminal (ECT) at the Port of Colombo. SLPA said it was making the statement following recent press reports, “to both clarify and inform interested stakeholders”

Bangladesh fast tracks pharma

This month, Bangladesh Customs introduced a new ‘fast track’ container delivery system by accrediting Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status to three pharmaceutical companies

Lines join forces in TradeLens

CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have announced they will join TradeLens, the blockchainenabled digital shipping platform, jointly developed by AP Møller-Maersk and IBM. In April, ZIM also announced it was joining TradeLens, while continuing to roll out its own WAVE platform for electronic Bills of Lading.

Buenos Aires reforms

The Argentinian government has stated that it will shortly issue terms and conditions linked to the tender covering container handling at the Port of Buenos Aires

NUTEP prepares for 10,000 TEU vessels

Delo, one of Russia’s leading transport and logistics groups, is set to commission the first container berth in the Black Sea capable of accommodating 10,000 TEU ships

PIL’s independence faces uncertainty

The continuation of Pacific International Lines (PIL) as an independent familycontrolled business seems unlikely, given its huge debt and a service network that offers suitors significant opportunities in trades within Asia and between Asia and the developing markets of the southern hemisphere.

Liebherr mobile crane for ABP Hull

ABP Humber has taken delivery of a new Liebherr LHM 420 mobile harbour crane for its Port of Hull operations.

Mediterranean SECA nears

Italy has joined France and Spain in calling for the Mediterranean Sea to become both a Sulphur Emissions Control Area (SECA) and Nitrogen Oxide Emission Control Area (NECA).

ABP order Kocks Ardelt unloaders for IBT

Associated British Ports (ABP) has ordered three high-capacity Tukan K 3000-50 grab unloaders for Immingham Bulk Terminal (IBT), which handles raw material imports for British Steel.

Nordfrost seeks JWP ferry terminal

Cold chain specialist Nordfrost GmbH & Co KG, which was the first tenant at the JWP Wilhelmshaven logistics park behind the deepwater container terminal, wants to use part of the older, inner port as a ferry terminal.

CMA CGM adjusts to cut costs

Marseilles-headquartered CMA CGM will rationalise and adjust its service network, as it seeks to cut costs and position itself to better meet customers’ needs.

Timaru back in view for container trades

The Port of Timaru on New Zealand’s South Island, which is operated as PrimePort Timaru, is optimistic about its future after handling a trial call from Hamburg Süd’s 6,000 TEU rio de janeiro, which was deployed on a Maersk service

Konecranes Gottwald marks MHC milestone

This month, the 2,000th Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour crane was inaugurated in a formal ceremony at the Ership terminal in the Port of Cartagena, Spain.

Sohar launches Navigate

Sohar Port and Freezone has launched SOHAR Navigate, a unique online route planner that provides information on available connections to onward destinations

Bromma wins Shenzhen order

Bromma has received an order for a total of 30 yard spreaders for delivery to Shenzhen Haixing Harbour Development.

Cranes move to Everett

This month, a Foss Maritime vessel departed the Port of Everett en-route to the Port of Los Angeles to pick up two gantry cranes that will be relocated to Everett’s South Terminal

Liebherr and Mac Port

Ravenna (Italy)-based Mac Port has now been Liebherr Maritime Cranes Rostock’s official partner for 10 years, and in that time, more than 80 Liebherr port cranes, offshore cranes and earthmovers have been placed on the market in Italy and Bulgaria, for which Mac Port is Liebherr Maritime Cranes’ sole sales and service partner

Sany hurdling fences

Chinese equipment supplier Sany has developed a special Hurdling Spreader for handling empty containers off road trucks that have well sides, or fences as they are sometimes known

Italgru keeping busy

Italy-based harbour crane and offshore cranes specialist Italgru Srl has reported a number of new orders for 2019 and early 2020 delivery.

ELME US specials

Sweden-based spreader manufacturer ELME has reported that it recently supplied four multipurpose 8610 NA WTP spreaders into the US intermodal market, and more are on order for delivery this year

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