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Speculation confirmed

WorldCargo News has been able to confirm its speculative report in the July 2019 edition (p14) that Chinese crane company Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group Co Ltd (DHHI) is indeed supplying six 23-wide container cranes to TIL at Medcenter, Gioia Tauro.

Container building takes a big tumble

The container manufacturing business has taken a turn for the worse in 2019, with dry box building bearing the brunt of the downturn.

World record reach stacker

Italy-based CES Srl has completed the assembly of two 180t SWL reach stackers (HLM 1800)

New double-stack 20ft rail car

US rail car manufacturer and service provider Trinity North America Freight Car (TrinityRail) has lodged a patent application for a 20ft double-stack well car design for the North American intermodal rail market.

More Kalmar shuttle carriers for the US Port of Virginia

Kalmar is to supply 25 Kalmar hybrid shuttle carriers to the Port of Virginia on the US East Coast.

Contract handling for Kalmar

Kalmar has secured another performance-based inbound logistics handling contract in the Nordic forestry industry, this time with Metsä Fibre at its Kemi pulp mill in north-western Finland. The agreement came into effect at the beginning of October.

Gaussin ramps up ATM production

Gaussin Manugistique is ramping up production at its Héricourt facility in France. It has expanded its production line for ATMs (Automotive Trailer Mover - Gaussin’s name for a terminal tractor), and has a target to produce 40 units by the end of 2019. The machine is built on a production line set up for both the ATM and Gaussin’s AGVs.

Emissions-free trailer

Leading European trailer manufacturer Schmitz Cargobull has announced that it has produced a prototype of an “emissions-free” reefer trailer

Mantsinen’s new 140M

The newly launched Mantsinen 140 hydraulic crane is the first portal machine of this size with turning wheels, which enables sideways movement and efficient usage in limited space

Spit and Polish at last

After years of deliberation and on-off decisions, tempered by geopolitical and financial questions, the current Polish government has decided to go ahead with a canal across the Vistula Spit, to provide the Port of Elblag with direct access to the open sea in Polish waters.

Charleston goes high

The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) has welcomed the delivery of three new ZPMC ship-to-shore cranes to add to the growing fleet of cranes at the Port of Charleston.

Trans-Isthmus Corridor cash

Mexico’s so-called Tehuantepec TransIsthmus Corridor is to receive investment of US$2.36B in 2019-2022.

St Petersburg expansions

Two terminal operators in the Port of St Petersburg, First Container Terminal (FCT) and Neva-Metal (NM), operating within the Third District of the port, have expanded their storage capacities.

Subic Bay operator eyeing more yacht handling business

ICTSI affiliate Subic Bay International Terminal Corp (SBITC) recently handled the first Flat Rail operation in the Philippines, with the loading of a brand new catamaran on a CMA CGM vessel.

Botswana dry port upgrade at Walvis Bay

Botswana’s dry port at the Namibian port of Walvis Bay is being upgraded, including with the provision of 40 reefer container plugs

Qatar’s Somalia foray

The Government of Qatar is to finance the construction of a new port at Hobyo in Central Somalia, apparently in competition with DP World’s investment at Berbera in the self-declared state of Somaliland.

Piraeus as rail gate

The Cosco-managed Port of Piraeus was the second biggest Mediterranean container handler last year, after Valencia, and throughput continues to grow quickly, with H1 2019 volumes up by almost 24% to 2.57M TEU.

MoorMaster again for Helsinki

The Port of Helsinki has again opted for Cavotec’s MoorMaster automated vacuum mooring system for the ro-pax ferry berth in the Western Harbour (Sörnäinen) in the city port

Bolivia-Chile tensions

The relationship between the Bolivian Port Services Administration (ASP-B) and Empresa Portuaria Arica (EPA) remains fractious.

AV Dawson invests on Teesside

Middlesbrough, UK-based logistics firm AV Dawson has opened a new £1M canopy to help service a multi-million pound deal with a major blue chip manufacturer British Gypsum.

New cranes for CMSA

ICTSI’s Contecon Manzanillo SA de CV (CMSA) took delivery of a pair of new ZPMC quay cranes and five new ZPMC RTGs this month.

Offshore energy boosts French seaports

GE Renewable Energy has been selected by Ørsted, the world-leading offshore wind farm developer, as the preferred turbine supplier for two offshore facilities located off the northeast US coast (Skipjack off Maryland and Ocean Wind off New Jersey), and for the huge (3 x 1,100 MW) Dogger Bank wind farm project off the northeast coast of Britain.

Recognition for Brazil’s Porto Itapoá

Porto Itapoá, a private-use terminal in southern Brazil’s Santa Catarina state, has won LatinFinance magazine’s Port Financing of the Year award for the way it raised U$116M to fund an expansion project

Steinwerder plan decided

For many years, what to do with the Steinwerder Süd area in the centre of the Port of Hamburg, the site of the former HHLA and Buss terminals and HDW shipyard, has been a problem for Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) and city planners, and various proposals have got the thumbs-down over the years

Helsingborg to clean up transport

Sweden’s Port of Helsingborg and autonomous electric vehicles specialist Einride have teamed up to analyse the transport flow in the port area, as a first step towards introducing clean alternatives for container transport

Durban operational issues

The terminal operating system at the Port of Durban is reported to have crashed in September because of delays in clearing containers.

Eurogate group commits to Damietta

Germany-based Eurogate and its affiliate Contship Italia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Damietta Port Authority for a turnkey development

Los Angeles’ warning call on trade war

Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, has issued a strong statement on the US/China trade war after container volumes at the largest US box port fell 2.7% year-on-year in September

‘Digital silk road’ and Chinese port cranes worry US lawmakers

The US House Committee on Transportation’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation has raised concerns about Chinese digital technology and how dependent US ports are on Chinese STS cranes

China to build port and railway link in Nigeria

The Nigerian Federal Government has signed a contract with China Railway Construction Corporation International (CRCCI) to build a new port at Warri – where the Nigerian Ports Authority completed a channel dredging project last year – and a 400 km rail link to the capital city Abuja

ONE moves on data sharing

The members of Ocean Network Express (ONE) have begun sharing operational data through the Internet of Ships Open Platform (IoS-OP) operated by Ship Data Center Ltd (ShipDC).

New logistics centre for Puerto Coronel

With two new STS cranes on the quayside, Chile’s Puerto Coronel has added a new logistics centre for faster processing of road trucks.

Data sharing is key for modern logistics

Shared European Logistics Intelligent Information Space (SELIS) is a €17.7M, three-year research project to create an open-source logistics trade tool, and it presented its final report in Brussels on 9 October.

CLdN programme reaches half way

Freight ro-ro specialist CLdN has welcomed HERMINE, the fourth 5,400 lane metre vessel in its huge newbuilding programme

Zeamarine/Rhenus Logistics ink deal

Zeamarine and Rhenus Logistics BV in Rotterdam have signed an agreement on stevedoring and ships’ agency business, following successful trial shipments last year

MSC cold-shoulders NSR Arctic corridor

MSC has declared that it “will not explore or use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) between Europe and Asia for container shipping”.

Samskip Portugal-North Europe

Samskip has launched a new, direct weekly service connecting Portugal and the UK, introducing its own vessel to sustain links between Tilbury, Lisbon, Leixões and its multimodal hub port of Rotterdam

Tracking in Algeria

Marseilles-based supply chain data and container tracking specialist Traxens is teaming up with logistics and transport services specialists ITP (Inter Transit Pharma) and ITPL (Inter Transit et Prestations Logistiques) for precision tracking of consignments of high-value goods to Algeria by sea or air.

Shore power push in Germany

German economics minister Peter Altmaier and the country’s coastal states have agreed a strategy for promoting shore generated power so that ships can cold-iron at berth.

CMP/DFDS plug-in

Copenhagen Malmö Port AS (CMP) and DFDS have reached an agreement to establish a shore power station at the DFDS ferry berth in Copenhagen.

Sails for rockets

France-based naval architecture firm VPLP has designed a new ro-ro vessel powered by four Oceanwing sails to assist the main propulsion system

Crowley selects XVELA

After a successful trial, Crowley Maritime has selected the XVELA network for its stowage planning needs throughout Central America, the Caribbean and the south-eastern United States

Hutchison raises rail questions

Hutchison Ports has raised the issue of whether transporting reefer containers on long-haul rail services from Europe to Asia is really a clean and competitive alternative to ocean freight

Switching railroad for Georgia in USA

OmniTRAX and its parent company, the Broe Group, have announced that they will build “Georgia’s first industrial switching railroad with dual Class I connections in more than 50 years” to connect the Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub (SGIH) to the CSX and Norfolk Southern networks in the state of Georgia.

New reachstackers for Moscow terminal

Freight Village Kaluga, located in the industrial area of Vorsino in the southwest of Moscow, recently took delivery of two Liebherr LRS 545-31 reach stackers, for operation at the rail terminal.

CCM waives penalties

Consolidated Chassis Management (CCM), the grey pool chassis manager, has agreed to waive South Atlantic Consolidated Chassis Pool’s (SACP) standard penalties for over-utilisation (OU) related to Hurricane Dorian.

New Cargo-Partner sea-land service

Austria-based logistics service provider Cargo-Partner has introduced a new land-sea corridor in western and central China, connecting with northern Europe by rail.

Royal Wolf expands

Royal Wolf, which claims to be Australasia’s largest container provider with 37 sites throughout Australia and New Zealand, continues to expand its operations.

CIMC woes

Box builder CIMC has issued a profit warning, stating that “based on the preliminary assessment of the unaudited consolidated management accounts of the group for the nine months ended 30 September 2019, the group expects the consolidated net profit will decrease significantly as compared to last year”

VW Group Logistics digitalises with RIO

RIO, the digital brand of the Traton Group, plans to support Volkswagen Group logistics by digitalising all processes

Shipping container manufacturing plant in Iran?

As it grapples with how to generate economic growth in the face of growing US sanctions, Iran’s government has unveiled a raft of initiatives to produce more goods domestically, including shipping containers.

MCI homes in on the cold chain

After disposing of its dry container manufacturing facility in China, Maersk Container Industry (MCI) is looking to expand further and deeper into the cold chain.

Daikin eyes new cargoes

Daikin Reefer continues to work with growers to test new cargoes for its Active controlled atmosphere (CA) system.

New ECTA workshop

The European Chemical Transport Association (ECTA) is setting up a workgroup aimed at improving supply chain visibility of bulk liquid flows.

Container telematics standards progress

There has been some important progress in the area of standards for container telematics.

Container industry sounds warning

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

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

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

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

Gottwald crane electrification project

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.

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