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Container industry sounds warning

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Container throughput at US ports might not be showing a significant decline just yet, but there are signs from the container industry that the box shipping sector is heading for a slowdown.

Safety improvement for ASCs

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LASE GmbH has introduced a new system for detecting container cones that have not been removed from a container.

Seoho tests 5G for RTG automation

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Korea-based drive and automation specialist Seoho Electric is preparing to test a 5G LTE network to support an RTG automation retrofit at a terminal in Korea, in collaboration with the Busan Port Authority and Korean telecoms firm LG Uplus.

Getting more reefers on deck

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Finding ways to load more reefer containers on a vessel appears to be a priority for some shipping lines.

Gottwald crane electrification project

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Konecranes Port Services will retrofit electrification to a Model 2 Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour crane at DP World’s Liège Container Terminal (LCT) in Belgium, lowering the facility’s local emissions and noise levels.

Gottwald MHC for TFG Naples

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A new Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour crane, a model G HMK 7608 in two-rope variant, has been shipped to Terminal Flavio Gioia (TFG) in the Port of Naples. The crane was shipped to Italy from Antwerp on the 2,800 dwt Dutch coaster DAAN.

Lirquén investment for DP World

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DP World Chile has approved an investment package for the Chilean Port of Lirquén worth US$45M. The company said it wants the port to be the leading maritime facility in the country’s southern Biobío region.

Sime Darby to take over Gough Group

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Sime Darby, which is listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, has announced that it will acquire the Gough Group through a New Zealand subsidiary company, Sime Darby (NZ) Holdings Ltd, for NZ$211M (US$133.2M).

Crane upgrade project for Kalmar

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Kalmar has concluded an agreement with Eurogate Tanger SA (EGT), which is managed for Eurogate Group by its Contship Italia affiliate, to upgrade four ZPMC STS cranes at the Moroccan facility.

Sany ready with an ASC

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Sany Group has developed an automated stacking crane (ASC) that the company said has “overcome many obstacles in key automation technologies, and achieved the targets of remote control, intelligent identification, precise alignment, automatic loading and unloading, which greatly improved port operation efficiency and reduced operating costs”

No more tag lines required

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Lift and load guidance specialist Verton Australia recently developed the R-Series, a system that can be applied to suspended loads across many industries, including breakbulk handling in ports.

Conti withdraws from Anaklia project

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The New York-based Conti Group has resigned from the Anaklia Development Consortium (ADC). It is the latest setback and one of the most serious in what has been a troubled year for the ADC.

New highway for Addis Ababa?

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The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) African Development Fund has agreed to provide a US$98M grant towards the cost of building the first phase of the planned four-lane highway between Addis Ababa and the Port of Djibouti. Phase 1 of the project will connect the Ethiopian towns of Adama and Awash, and includes the design of a joint EthiopiaDjibouti border post to be built at Dewele.

Vietnam seeks US$4B for its ports

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The Vietnamese Government wants foreign entities to invest as much as US$4.3B into its main ports.

Picking through the bones of Libra Terminais

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Santos port authority Codesp is to sell off as scrap two STS cranes at T37, formerly occupied by the bankrupt Libra Group. Dismantling work has been authorised by the National Waterway Transportation Agency (Antaq), and the decision has been published in the Official Federal Gazette.

Genma cranes arrive in Acajutla port

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The port of Acajutla El Salvador, recently took delivery of two Genma mobile harbour cranes, built by Rainbow Heavy Industries. The model GHC150 cranes, with a maximum capacity under hook of 150t and maximum radius of 54m, will be used to handle containers, general cargo and dry bulk. Up to now the port has relied entirely on ships’ gear.

Two Sines developments

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The Portuguese Government has given the go-ahead for the third phase expansion of Terminal XXI at the Port of Sines and also for the construction of a second, adjacent container terminal.

CIB backing box terminal

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The newly founded Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has signed an MoU with Montreal Port Authority (MPA) to advance the development of a new box terminal at Contrecoeur, Montreal.

Box terminal for Abu Qir

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Hutchison Ports has signed an MoU with the Egyptian Government to develop a new container terminal at Abu Qir, close to Alexandria. The firm will train more than 1,500 Egyptians to work in skilled positions on the construction project, and it is anticipated that the facility will have an annual handling capacity of 1M TEU.

Red Sea Gateway Terminal looks overseas

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The past six months have seen management at Jeddah’s Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT) conclude a number of deals with overseas entities. It supports their strategy of using the company’s knowledge and experience to offer advice and solutions to port, shipping and logistics projects outside of Saudi Arabia.

Tallinn opts for vacuum mooring

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The Estonian Port of Tallinn has awarded contracts to Cavotec and Trelleborg to install their respective MoorMaster and AutoMoor automated vacuum mooring systems at three berths in the City Old Harbour.

Dredging payment refused

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Pedro Pablo Jurado, director of Cormagdalena, the regional autonomous corporation of Colombia’s Magdalena River, has said that he will not pay Jan de Nul Group “a single peso” for what his organisation regards as the failure of the company’s subsidiary, European Dredging Company Colombia Branch, to properly implement an emergency US$2M dredging programme to restore full navigability in the access channel to the Port of Barranquilla.

Jumbo delivery to Saudi Arabia

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Netherlands-based heavy lift vessel operator Jumbo Maritime recently transported its heaviest consignment.

Evergreen to order new 23,000 TEU box ships

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Evergreen Line, Taiwan’s largest liner shipping company, is to spend US$1.76B on 11 new 23,000 TEU capacity container ships.

Trans-Russia multimoda

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Maersk, GPI Global Ports Investments (in which Maersk affiliate APM Terminals has a 33.75% stake) and freight forwarding company Modul have launched a multimodal container service from Asia to Europe through Russia’s Pacific and Baltic gateways.

OmniTRAX adds another shortline railroad firm

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Hot on the heels of a deal announced last month to acquire Winchester & Western Railroad, a shortline railroad operating in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, OmniTRAX, the US transport and rail logistics company, has made another shortline acquisition

Polish ports push inland

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Gdansk and Gdynia are developing new terminals and intermodal rail yards, as they seek a larger slice of eastern and central Europe’s general cargo traffic, opportunities to tap into the increase in east-west rail services between China and Europe, and northsouth links between the Baltic Sea and Adriatic Sea, to boost their regional transhipment business.

Rijeka rush

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The development of a new container terminal and investment in a new rail line connecting the port to Karlovac, all part of port authority Luka Rijeka’s Rijeka Gateway project, could transform Rijeka into the premier container port in the northern Adriatic region, the Croatian port hopes.

Isotank.cn expands

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Ningbo-based Isotank.cn is looking to expand its membership, which is mainly confined to operators of tank containers, depots/cleaning stations, lessors and cargo owners based in China, to other parts of the world.

Nanaimo gets funding

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Canada’s Minister of Transport Marc Garneau has announced that the federal government will invest C$46.2M in the Port of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island to expand its Duke Point Terminal, which is operated by DP World

New Tukan 2000 for Kaliningrad exclave

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KMTP, the main stevedore in Kaliningrad, has put into operation a new Tukan 2000 double level-luffing crane from Kocks Ardelt Kranbau in Germany.

More for Chancay

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A consortium led by Cosco Shipping Ports (CSP), which is building the Peruvian Port of Chancay, wants to increase investment in the initial stage of the project by US$723M, bringing the total project amount to US$3B.Cosco holds a 60% stake in the project and is partnered by local company Volcan

SA-TU Vuosaari step up

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SA-TU Logistics is stepping up its activities in the Port of Vuosaari (Helsinki), where it already provides forestry product handling, storage and logistics services.

ICTSI named for Kribi port

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Port landlord Port Autonome de Kribi has named ICTSI of the Philippines as the preferred bidder for the 25-year concession to operate the multipurpose terminal at the deepwater port of Kribi in Cameroon

Five-year extensions

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Margarida Matos Rosa, president of Portugal’s Competition Authority (AdC), believes that “excessively long” terminal concession extensions in the country’s ports are “inadvisable”

Mombasa controversy

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The Kenyan Government has signed an MoU with MSC and Kenyan National Shipping Line (KNSL) over a concession to operate the new container terminal at Mombasa, but the deal faces opposition from politicians and trades unions

DP World re-enters Indonesian market

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DP World is re-entering the Indonesia market. A deal concluded in the past month will see the world’s third largest operator of container terminals invest in a new US$1.2B integrated port and logistics complex at Gresik, East Java

Port of Ashdod kits out

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Ashdod Port Company has taken delivery of a new STS crane, reach stackers, forklifts and other equipment.

Goldhofer SPMTs in Taiwan

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Sea & Land Integrated Corp, based in New Taipei City, has ordered 28 modular PST/SL-E SPMT axle lines from Goldhofer in Germany.

Mammoet takes ALE

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In a global heavy lift sector merger, Dutch-based Mammoet has signed an agreement to acquire the UK’s ALE Group

Hungarians for Port of Trieste

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The Port of Trieste has ratified a contract with the Government of Hungary and two private Hungarian firms, Teseco and Seastock, to develop and operate a multipurpose terminal in the port’s Noghere zone, formerly occupied by the Aquila oil refinery

Four terminals planned for Manzanillo

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Mexico’s Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT), along with API Manzanillo (the port authority) and the State of Colima, is to provide funding for the development of four new cargo handling terminals at the country’s largest Pacific coast port of Manzanillo

Flow Drive for Alpherium

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Konecranes has reported that CCT Alpherium, the inland waterway container terminal located in Alphen-aan- den Rijn in the Netherlands, has ordered another Flow Drive reach stacker, its third such machine in two years

National dredger for Russia?

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Russian deputy prime minister Yury Borisov has instructed the country’s industry and transport ministries to work out a public/ private partnership model for a national dredging company.

Haifa objections in US Senate

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The US Senate is opposing Shanghai International Port Group’s (SIPG) role in the construction of Haifa Bay Port in Israel, despite which, both the Israel Ports Development and Assets Company and the planning authorities are going ahead with the work.

Costs per big truck move

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Hyster Europe has reported the results of extensive analysis using data from telematics, to offer insights into ways to reduce the cost per tonne moved.

Delivery to Belfast

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Belfast Harbour Commissioners has taken delivery, through Cooper SH, of a new Mantsinen 300M mobile hydraulic crane, the first in the UK.

Reach stackers at ABP Hams Hall

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Cooper Specialised Handling Ltd in the UK has now commissioned two Sany 4540 GC reach stackers at ABP Hams Hall intermodal terminal, which services six train pairs/day carrying deepsea containers and domestic traffic from Scotland

Electric vehicles on a roll in the USA

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The number of electric terminal tractors and drayage trucks in the US is increasing steadily as operators access grant funding to purchase electric machines

More angst for Anaklia port plans

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Just as the Anaklia Development Consortium (ADC) announced it had selected a general contractor for Georgia’s future deepwater port, more controversy has arisen

Guatemala reach stacker row

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Empornac, the National Port Company of Santo Tomás de Castilla in Guatemala, has awarded Mecatrónica SA a controversial supply contract worth US$20.43M for 20 reach stackers

Automation in the yard for Rizhao

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Chinese crane OEM Qingdao Haixi Heavy-duty Machinery Co Ltd. (HHMC) has completed a project to install eight automated double-cantilever RMGs at Rizhao Port in China

ZPMC in port operating JV

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This month, China Communications Construction Corporation (CCCC) announced the formation of a new joint venture between three of its subsidiary companies and ZPMC to invest in and operate ports.

Russia moves on BTK line

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The Russian Government has offered to build a new, 76 km-long Russian gauge (1,520mm) rail line from Akhalkalaki in Georgia, close to the border with Turkey, to the city of Kars in eastern Turkey.

Italy-China train trials

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Xi’an International Port Area Haidebang Logistics Co Ltd and Swiss intermodal operator Hupac have dispatched an intermodal train from Terminal Busto ArsizioGallarate in northern Italy, near the Swiss border, to the city of Xi’an in Shaanxi province, north-western China

G&W sold to Brookfield and GIC

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A consortium of Brookfield Infrastructure, Singapore’s GIC and Brookfield Infrastructure’s institutional partners has agreed to pay around US$8.4B to acquire Genesee & Wyoming Inc (G&W), including its debt

OmniTRAX adds WW

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US transport and rail logistics company OmniTRAX has signed a deal to acquire Class III shortline operator Winchester & Western Railroad (WW) from current owner Covia Holdings for US$105M. The deal is subject to closing conditions, including Surface Transportation Board review