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Rules on roubles

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Russia’s federal government has endorsed a draft bill that would require port stevedoring services to be charged only in roubles.

Funds for Seychelles port

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A total of €36M of European money is being ploughed into the Seychelles’ Port Victoria to modernise its operations and expand its footprint.

TCU scraps extension

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Brazil’s financial watchdog, the Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) is pushing to scrap the extension of Grupo Libra Terminais’ concession contracts in Santos, citing the “illegal renewal” in 2016.

NWSA beats reduced emissions targets

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The 2016 Puget Sound Maritime Air Emissions Inventory shows that the North West Seaport Alliance (NWSA) has achieved significant reductions in air pollution from operations since 2005.

NWSA-Alaska trade takes a tumble

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Container traffic between the North West Seaport Alliance (NWSA - Seattle/Tacoma) and Alaska has declined from 687,486 TEU in 2007 to 588,438 TEU in 2017, a drop of around 15% over a decade.

Adnoc deal with Borouge

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Adnoc Logistics and Services, the shipping and services arm of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), has signed a contract with Borouge, a leading producer of high-value polymers for the plastics industry, to handle its Ruwais container terminal operations. Adnoc takes over from Sharjah-based Gulftainer

Port of Grangemouth investments

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Forth Ports’ Port of Grangemouth is well underway with a multi-million pound investment programme to strengthen its position as Scotland’s premier port.

Free port for Primorsk

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Primorsk is Russia’s key Baltic oil port, but Ramis Deberdeyev, a coowner of Factor Timber Terminal and Yug-2 multipurpose terminal in the port of Ust-Luga plans to build a US$1.5B multipurpose port there, reportedly with the support of the St Petersburg regional government.

Antenna picked off at Prince Rupert

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Early this month, the Port of Prince Rupert delayed COSCO Shipping container vessel XIN SHANGHAI departing after a crane knocked an antenna off the top of the vessel’s bridge following the completion of loading

Eagle targets top spot in LA

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Eagle Marine Services (EMS), operator of one of the Pier 300 container terminals at the Port of Los Angeles, is five months into a “value creation programme that focuses on generating sustainable, highly productive terminal services to customers”, which includes new equipment, gate process automation, and a TOS upgrade

New terminal in North Vietnam on River Cam

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This month, the new Lach Huyen International Gateway Port on Cat Hai Island near Haiphong, Vietnam was officially opened. Located on the River Cam, the port has a water depth of 14m, double the depth at Haiphong’s older terminals with the tide.

Tideworks TOS for South Carolina terminals

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Though it has not been officially announced, the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) is working with Tideworks to implement its TOS at both its North Charleston and Wando Welch terminals

Hall of Fame for Liftech’s Mike Jordan

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Michael Jordan (pictured below), founding principal and technical director of Liftech Consultants Inc., was inducted into the International Maritime Hall of Fame at the 25th Annual Hall of Fame 2018 Awards in New York on 9 May 2018.

New ports in Central Asia States

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The Central Asia States (CAS) of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have both commissioned new ports in recent months, and the provision of much bigger container handling facilities has been a feature of both.

Felixstowe automates RTGs

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As this edition of WorldCargo News was going to press, Siemens announced an order for “eight electrified automated rubber tyred gantry cranes” (ARTGs) from the Port of Felixstowe in the UK, which is owned and operated by Hutchison Ports.

Investment in Doraleh

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Following on from its decision to invest in the Port of Berbera in Somaliland, the government of Ethiopia is to take a direct stake in Doraleh Container Terminal (DCT) in Djibouti

CMA CMG for Lekki

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CMA CGM has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to operate the container terminal at the new port of Lekki

Konecranes expands lift truck presence in Asia

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As a part of the strategy to strengthen its heavy lift trucks presence in Southeast Asia, Konecranes has signed four new distributor agreements, which are expected to make a strong addition to the Konecranes network throughout the region.

Brigade helps Termont cut noise

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Brigade Electronics Canada recently fitted noise abatement technology to the entire fleet of rubber-tyred gantry cranes at Termont’s Maisonneuve terminal in Montreal.

Hamburg’s Steinwerder plans face more grief

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Norbert Paulsen, who heads the Works Council at HHLA, Hamburg’s biggest operator, has come out strongly against the port’s latest project to redevelop the Steinwerder area of the port, with a new automated container terminal and logistics centre occupying 42-ha

Order for first CBG 360

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The first order for Liebherr’s latest pedestal-mounted crane for lightering pontoon and shipboard applications, the CBG 360 four-rope grab crane, has come from Russia

There’s the Rubb

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Logistics services provider FTS Eiendom in Norway has placed an order with Rubb for four FXG insulated Thermohall fabric structures measuring 30m (98.4ft) span by 59.25m (184.4ft) in length, with 6m (19.7ft) sidewalls, for its growing import activities in the port of Fredrikstad

Efficient Mombasa rail link

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Kenya’s new standard gauge railway (SGR) is currently being extended into the heart of the Port of Mombasa

Vortex for Tilbury

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The UK Port of Tilbury has taken delivery of a Vortex Simulator from CM Labs of Montreal, to form part of its Attention to Logistics retraining programme.

Liebherr stackers for Lyons

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Lyon Terminal SA, the trimodal container terminal in the French Rhône River port of Lyons, recently took delivery of the first of two new Liebherr LRS 545 reach stackers.

More OMG revamping work

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Bedeschi OMG has provided an update on two new 68.5m outreach (23 rows), 52.5m lift height cranes for Eurogate Group, for Limassol, Cyprus, where the Germany-based port company won a concession to operate the container terminal in 2016.

iForks-32 from Ravas

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Ravas has launched iForks-32 as the next generation of its iForks wireless scale forks for FLTs, reach trucks and narrow aisle trucks.

Cavotec calls for power standards

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Jim Andriotis, group innovation market development manager at Cavotec, believes that there are significant benefits to be gained by developing standards for electrical power systems for STS, RMG/ ASC and E-RTG cranes.

Konecranes books BEST ASC order

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Hutchison Ports Holdings’ (HPH) BEST (Barcelona Europe South Terminal) in Spain has ordered six more ASCs from Konecranes, scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2019.

Gottwald for Dover

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Konecranes Gottwald has reported an order from Dover Harbour Board (DHB) to supply two Model 5 mobile harbour cranes for the new cargo facilities being developed as part of the Dover Western Docks Revival (DWDR), which is DHB’s biggest single investment to date

...electric terminal tractor launched

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While the equipment pictured in the adjacent article looks radical, electrification is likely to be an incremental journey.

Kalmar commits to an electric future...

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Kalmar has announced its commitment to reduce emissions in cargo and materials handling operations by offering fully electrically powered versions of its lift trucks by 2021, using solar to recharge the power packs

Khalifa ASC tender

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This month, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) signed joint-venture and 30-year concession agreements with Abu Dhabi Ports Co to develop a new container terminal at Khalif

Canada shuts a door on China

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Canada’s federal government made an important decision this month when it blocked China Communications Construction Company International Holding Limited, part of China Communications Construction Co. (CCCC) from purchasing Aecon, one of Canada’s large engineering and construction companies.

Time to get to grips with automation

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As terminal automation continues to gather pace, more and more port operators are making plans to introduce automation when they purchase new equipment.

Handling plan for Yara’s robotic route

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Kalmar and Norwegian fertiliser conglomerate Yara have unveiled the “world’s first fully digitalised and zero-emission cargo solution” for handling Yara’s new fully autonomous feeder vessel at its Porsgrunn facility in Norway

Congestion back at Chittagong

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Despite measures to improve container storage capacity at the port, congestion at Chittagong in Bangladesh has got worse in recent weeks.

Elbe deepening - back to court?

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With calculated timing, just before the deadline for appeals was due to expire, German environmental groups NABU and BUND, supported by the WWF, have filed new objections, in a bid to stop the deepening of the Elbe Fairway.

RWG phase 2 tendering

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The Port Rotterdam Authority (HbR) has released a tender for the quay wall construction for the second phase of Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) at Maasvlakte II.

Limassol invests in transhipment

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Eurogate Container Terminal Limassol (ECTL), which secured the operating concession for the container terminal in Limassol, Cyprus, in 2016, is buying two new STS cranes, and refurbishing its existing units.

SIFAX looks to Warri

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A consortium of Nigerian companies led by SIFAX Group has won the tender for the concession to operate Terminal B at the Port of Warri.

Equipment for Myanmar

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Asia World Port Terminal (AWPT) has taken delivery of several pieces of new equipment that it believes will boost its productivity and expand its capacity in the port of Yangon, Myanmar.

Crane upgrade for Ashdod

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Ashdod Port Company is in the process of upgrading two Kocks STS cranes, within the framework of implementation of its strategic plan to receive mega container ships.

Medway thumbs-down for Barreiro

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Carlos Vasconcelos, president of Portuguese rail operator Medway, has said that the proposed Barreiro Terminal on the Tagus River is not a good solution for the Port of Lisbon.

Rail route to cause Cádiz trouble

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In April, a new rail service began operating between the Portuguese port of Sines and Spain’s port of Seville. Two services per week are envisaged, each with a capacity of up to 56 TEU.

Electric options from Port-Liner

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By the autumn of 2018, at least five fully electric emission-free barges will be operating on inland waterways in Benelux, with the first craft expected to transit the Wilhelmina Canal in the Netherlands.

CCSC revamps Baltic Sea network

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China Cosco Shipping Corp (CCSC) has made several adjustments to its Baltic Sea feeder network, as it strives to cut transit times on key port-to-port corridors, and improve schedule reliability.

MSC goes for port of Klaipeda

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Geneva-based MSC is likely to use the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda to support and expand its operations in the Baltic Sea region in the coming months.

Mozambique cabotage deal with French firm

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France-based Peschaud has signed a deal to provide coastal cargo services between Mozambican ports.

Iran nuclear deal fallout begins

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US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the joint comprehensive plan of action (JCPOA) signed in 2015 between the US, China, Germany, France, Russia, the UK and Iran, and designed to stop the latter country developing nuclear weapons, is already impacting trade and investment in the Middle East nation.

New service links China and Malaysia

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Two of Taiwan’s leading intra-Asia operators – Cheng Lie Navigation (CLN), which is controlled by CMA CGM Group, and TS Lines – have joined with Hong Kong-based Gold Star Line (GSL) and Seoul-based KMTC to start a new China/Malaysia liner link.

Blue Water/Ekol ro-rail

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Turkey’s Ekol Logistics has started another new multimodal ro-rail service o/d Turkey, this time for Turkey-Denmark shipments, in collaboration with Denmark’s Blue Water Shipping A/S.

Amsterdam base for Samskip/TMA

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Samskip, which is one of Europe’s leading providers of shortsea container services, and TMA Logistics, a major stevedore and terminal manager in the port of Amsterdam, are working closely together to develop business at the port.

Bigger ships set to transit Panama Canal

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Almost two years after the opening of the new locks on the expanded Panama Canal, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced that larger ships will be able to transit the artery. The authority has also increased the number of daily transit slots for Neo-Panamax class tonnage.

Alternative to barge congestion

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Schweizerzug, the intermodal rail arm of Swiss-based logistics provider Swissterminal Group, is launching a new direct connection between Frenkendorf/Basel and the Port of Antwerp, starting in July. This means that Switzerland will have an overnight rail service connecting it with the Belgian hub for the first time.

Lehrte terminal underway

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Following many publicised false starts and postponements over the past 10 years, construction of a state-of-the-art intermodal rail hub at Lehrte, near Hannover in Germany, is finally underway

DB Cargo mixes it up

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While container block trains dominate the intermodal rail transport of shipping containers, DB Cargo has recently introduced a mixed block train on behalf of a customer on the 319 km route between the German Rhine river port of Andernach and the Port of Antwerp.

Botany deal

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The Port Botany rail line in Sydney will be duplicated between the port and Mascot, the Australia’s federal government has announced.

GEFCO looks to landbridge

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GEFCO, the France-based international transport and logistics operator controlled by Russian Railways (RZD), is set to play an increasingly important role in transport along the trans-Eurasian rail corridors.

PrimeLINE for TS Line

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Taiwanese carrier TS Lines Ltd has ordered another 1,000 reefer containers with Carrier Transicold PrimeLINE machinery to expand its reefer capacity for inter-Asia services by 24%.

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