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DoD deal for ORBCOMM and Savi Technology

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Companies partner to track and monitor nearly 24,000 assets for the Department of Defence

Port Solutions, an international port equipment trading company run from Germany by Carlos Kohler, has delivered a used Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour crane from Malabo in Equatorial Guinea to Estibadora Sevillana in the Port of Seville.

Bolloré to expand in La Rochelle

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Bolloré Ports has signed an agreement with Grand Port Maritime de La Rochelle-La Pallice (which styles itself Atlantic Port La Rochelle) to build a new terminal at Chef de Baie 4.

Deeper Durban set to go

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Transnet’s chief capital officer, Krishna Reddy, has said that the R7B (US$462B) project to deepen Pier 2’s North Quay (Berths 203 to 205) at Durban Container Terminal to accommodate the latest generation container vessels is ready to start, and completion is scheduled for 2023.

Quebec City plan gets a boost

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The Port of Quebec is planning to enter the container market, and is trying to develop its own box terminal to compete with Montreal, which is located 250 km further up the St Lawrence River.

Antwerp extends deadline

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The Port of Antwerp has extended the deadline for RFPs from potential investors in its 88-ha Churchill Industrial Zone, the former Opel car plant in the Churchill Dock. The port said it is still seeking investors in manufacturing or processing industries

Colombo on top in H1

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The Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka is celebrating having the fastest growth rate amongst the 30 largest box ports in the world in H1 2018, according to a report from Alphaliner

SAGEPs in Galicia end

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Anesco, the Spanish port employers’ association, and stevedoring union representatives led by Coordinadora, have agreed to liquidate the stevedoring companies (SAGEPS) that operate in the ports of A Coruña, El Ferrol and Marín in the north-western Spanish region of Galicia

Port Réunion on the up

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After five years as a top-ranked French port authority, Grand Port Maritime (GPM) de La Réunion on the small island of La Réunion is reaping the benefits of its capital spend for the 2014-18 period, with total throughput increasing last year by 7% to 5.586 Mt.

Savannah hits air draught issue with Talmadge Bridge

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During Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) annual State of the Port Address, executive director Griff Lynch announced the port’s plan to increase capacity from 5.5M TEU today to 8M TEU. It will increase its STS fleet from 30 to 42 cranes, and its RTG fleet from 146 to 210.

Long Beach counts the cost of intermodal development

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Funding announcements this month for two major intermodal projects in the US highlight the huge difference in the cost of civil works between adding rail capacity at Savannah and reconfiguring an existing facility in Long Beach.

Gulftainer signs on in Delaware

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This month, Gulftainer signed an agreement through its US subsidiary GT USA Wilmington LLC, with the Diamond State Port Corporation (DSPC) in Delaware to build a new container terminal at DuPont’s former Edgemoor site on the Delaware River in Wilmington.

Next step in Doraleh battle

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The Government of Djibouti has stepped up its dispute with DP World by announcing that it will nationalise the two-thirds stake in Doraleh Container Terminal (DCT) that had previously been held by Port de Djibouti SA. China Merchants Port Holdings Company, which has not yet commented on the issue, holds a 23.5% stake in Port de Djibouti, which is already majority owned by the government.

Konecranes Noell launches Hybrid

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At its 13th straddle carrier symposium this month, which also marked the 50th anniversary of straddle carrier production in Würzburg, Konecranes Noell announced a new hybrid machine, a new separating twin lift spreader, and its Tier V engine option.

Visy gate/crane OCR for PMT

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Finland-based Visy Oy, in cooperation with Konecranes and PT. Primus Indonesia, has been awarded a contract from Prima Multi Terminal (PMT) in Indonesia to supply its Visy Access GOS (Gate Operating System) with OCR for both the gate operation and STS cranes.

Hyster lands fuel cell grant

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Hyster Company in the US has been awarded a grant from California Climate Investments (CCI) to support the development of a zero-emissions laden container handler powered by a Nuvera fuel cell, technology owned by Hyster.

Mantsinen in Rauma

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Finland-based Oy Mantsinen AB is setting up a new crane assembly unit in the Port of Rauma, to meet a rising global demand for its cranes.

Terberg acquires Manuport Srl

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Netherlands-based terminal tractor manufacturer Terberg Benschop BV has acquired a majority stake (51%) in one of its most active European distributors and service agents, Manuport Srl in Genoa.

Teichmann for Mertert

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Teichmann Cranes, which claims to be Europe’s largest remanufacturer of preowned cranes, has shipped a 25t SWL gantry crane in tubular steel construction from the German inland port of Essen to the port of Mertert on the River Moselle in Luxembourg, using a combination of trucking and barging, via the RheinHerne Canal.

Liebherr MHC for Dampier

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Liebherr has reported an order from Joyce Krane, an Australian heavy lift and logistics company based in Karratha, WA, for a LHM 280 mobile harbour crane, for operation in the nearby Port of Dampier. It will arrive there at the beginning of 2019.

Innovation for Weserport Bremen

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Weserport, the joint venture of Rhenus Group and ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH in Bremen, is the first customer for the new Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour crane with Konecranes’ hybrid drive technology.

Konecranes delivers special lift trucks

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Konecranes recently delivered six model SMV16-1200C FLTs – i.e. 16-tonners @ 1200mm LC and on a 3,750mm wheelbase – to DP World in Jebel Ali, Terminal 1.

Kalmar wins another STS crane contract

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Kalmar has taken another step towards its goal of rebuilding its STS crane business, with an order for two new STS cranes for Curaçao Port Services BV. The company is a repeat customer, currently operating two NelconKalmar STS cranes on approximately 400m of berth at the Port of Willemstad.

Ghana grows in H1

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The volume of cargo handled by Ghana’s leading ports rose by 14.3% in H1 2018 to 11.8 Mt. Figures published by the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) revealed that increases were registered in all cargo handling activities, with gateway cargo up 14.4% (to 11.2 Mt) and transhipment volumes rising by 11.5% to 571,054t.

Lights on for BiNY

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Chinese LED lighting specialist BiNY has announced a contract to provide its Industrial Internet of Lights (IIoL) for DP World’s new Posorja deepwater terminal in Ecuador. The project will be the first time that BiNY has supplied its ‘one-stop-shop’ LED lighting solution to DP World.

Nigerian corruption facing turning point?

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The Nigeria Collective Action report, which was published by the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) in July, found that some progress has been made in tackling corruption at Nigerian ports over the past few years. Standardised port call and vessel clearance procedures have now been introduced, and the Nigerian Shippers Council has been given the powers to settle grievances.

Elbe River dredging costs heading north

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For no less than 17 years, the Port of Hamburg has been trying to deepen and widen the fairway of the lower Elbe, to improve nautical access for ever bigger ships.

Throughputs decline at Nigeria’s main container ports in Q1

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The number of containers handled at Nigeria’s main ports declined by more than 7% in Q1 2018. The combined throughput of 387,016 TEU handled at ports of Lagos/Apapa, Port Harcourt, Calabar and Onne compared with 416,807 TEU in the final quarter of 2017. A significant fall was also posted in ports’ vehicle traffic, with 37,584 CEU processed, compared with 43,338 units in Q4 2017.

China’s leading port companies report strong profits

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China Merchants Ports (CMP) and Cosco Shipping Ports (CSP), which are China’s two leading operators of international container terminals, have both posted strong fiscal results for H1 2018. Compared with the same period of 2017, CMP’s net profit increased more than 73%, while CSP’s rose by 70%.

Sweden’s Gävle in paper chase

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The Port of Gävle on Sweden’s east coast is planning to build an automated high-bay warehouse for paper products, occupying 10,000 m2 of floor space and standing 25m high.

Sennebogen for Andernach

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Stadtwerke Andernach, the operator of the Rhine port of Andernach in Germany, recently installed a new Sennebogen 870M materials handler.

Yilport streamlines Portugal operations

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Yilport has appointed a single person to manage all three of its container terminals in Portugal. The latest move has seen Diogo Vaz Marecos appointed as CEO of TCL (Yilport Leixões), replacing Jaime Vieira dos Santos.

New life for Kenyan shipping line

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The Government of Kenya has announced that it is to revive Kenya National Shipping Line with the support of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).

New Gottwald in Venice

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Multi Service, the Bogazzi Group stevedore in Porto Marghera, has taken delivery of a new Konecranes Gottwald Model 6 mobile harbour crane.

Problems in Moín

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At the end of July, Alfredo Salas, CEO of Costa Rica Shipping Lines and Shipping Agents’ Association (NAVE), complained that one of two new STS container cranes acquired by JAPDEVA, the Moín port authority, had worked properly for only two months since it was commissioned in February this year.

Valencia expansion

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The Mayor of Valencia, Ximo Puig, has stated that, in October, the port authority (APV) will unveil a €1B plan to expand the port towards the north to create an extra 5M TEU/year of container handling capacity. This is planned as a public-private partnership.

Maersk opts for further integration

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In moves designed to save costs, offer its customers a broader range of integrated freight transport solutions, and strengthen its global image, Copenhagen-based AP Møller-Maersk is to fully incorporate its logistics arm Damco into its main liner shipping division and reduce the number of carrier brands it markets.

Ranheim goes for multimodal solution

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Paper products manufacturer Ranheim Paper & Board in Trondheim, Norway, is to switch from trucking to a multimodal solution involving shortsea shipping, rail and ‘last mile’ trucking, for serving its customers in Austria.

LNG terminal for Brunsbüttel

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The German states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein have agreed to invest an estimated €450M in an LNG terminal in the Port of Brunsbüttel, for bunkering ships calling at Hamburg and Lower Elbe ports and ships sailing through the Kiel Canal.

Wan Hai planning new ship orders

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Wan Hai Lines is close to ordering new ships for its intra-Asia operations and, following several months of discussions, it appears as if contracts will be split between Japan Marine United’s (JMU) shipyard in Yokohama and China’s Huangpu Wenchong.

Germany’s Nord LB seeking new funds

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Nord LB Hanover, the ship finance bank owned by the German states of Lower Saxony (NS) and Saxony-Anhalt, needs fresh capital. According to Thomas Bürkle, the bank’s CEO. “There are enough market players who realise that Nord LB has a good and workable business concept for strategic investors,” he said.

Chipolbrok completes second year of contract

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Breakbulk and project cargo shipping specialist Chipolbrok has marked the completion of the second year of its contract with C Steinweg Süd-West Terminal in Hamburg by highlighting some of the exceptional loads moved over the facility.

Squeezing more boxes on board

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Navis has announced that the ship-specific MACS3 Sealash module on board an 8,000 TEU container vessel has been successfully approved by classification society DNV GL.

Yachts on box ships

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Australian company Aurora Global Logistics is doing a steady trade shipping luxury motor yachts to and from Australia on container ships.

Carriers revamp India services

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Recent weeks have seen a number of ocean carriers revamp their services linking India with the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. A variety of operational, market and business development reasons have led to the changes that have taken place.

Precision Scheduled Railroading for UP

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Union Pacific Railroad (UP) this month announced that it plans to implement “the core tenants” of Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) as part of an initiative called the Union Pacific Unified Plan 2020.

CSX reforms not done yet

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Management at CSX has not yet finished reforming its intermodal division, despite having done away with the hub-and-spoke network implemented over several years by CSX Intermodal.

Ethiopia opens its logistics sector

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The Ethiopian Investment Board (EIB) has decided to “fully open up” the country’s logistics sector to foreign investors. The EIB, which comprises several government ministries and the National Bank of Ethiopia, has repealed various elements of the constitution’s Article 3.1(b), Regulation No. 270/2012 of the Investment Act that related to the logistics industry.

Tanzania secures SGR secondstage funding from UK bank

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The Tanzanian Government has secured US$1.46B in funding from Standard Chartered, the UK-based banking group. The money will be used to support the construction of the second stretch (426 km) of the country’s high-speed standard gauge rail (SGR) network. This stage will connect Morogoro and Makutupora in the country’s Dodoma region.

Jordan closes in on rail freight plan

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Jordan’s Ministry of Transport (MoT) is believed to be close to signing a more than US$4.2B deal with a UK-based project, asset and capital management group to fund and develop a rail network in the country.

Neuss mega-hub

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Chronic congestion in the Rhine seaports has forced container barge and multimodal specialist and trimodal terminal operator Contargo to adopt a new logistics approach on the Rhine corridor.

Breakthrough for Carrier and CO2

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Carrier Transicold has announced a major breakthrough for its NaturaLINE refrigeration unit, which uses the natural refrigerant CO2. SeaCube Containers LLC is purchasin 2,000 40ft high cube reefers, which it will lease to Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).

Gaussin swap body mover for RailCare

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Gaussin Manugistique has reported a firm order from RailCare AG in Switzerland for a self-propelled fully electric Automotive Swap Body Mover (ASBM) with a lift capacity of 16t.

Box buyers dodge tariff bullet

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US container owners have won a major victory with the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) and the Trump administration, successfully lobbying for intermodal containers to be removed from a list of items that will be subject to a 25% tariff when entering the US.

Automation win for ZPMC

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ZPMC has won a yard automation contract with Dalian Container Terminal (DCT). The work includes “yard automation restructuring” and retrofitting automation on three double-cantilever RMG cranes.

SIE revamps STS crane duo

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SIE Srl in Italy has just completed electrical modernisation and revamping work on two low-profile STS cranes, originally built by Italimpianti, for Messina Group at IMT Genova.

More Konecranes E-RTGs for Koper

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Luka Koper has ordered five more E-RTGs from Konecranes. They will be equipped with cable reels featuring an auto plugin system, both believed to be from Cavotec in Italy, and will be delivered in the summer of 2019.

European expansion for Sany

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Sany Europe has announced that it will be offering a complete portfolio of Sany harbour cranes to customers located in Europe. The range originates from existing Sany supply, and will comprise RMGs from 10t to 65t, RTGs from 10t to 65t, MHCs from 41t to 210t, STS gantry cranes from 35t to 80t, and jib cranes from 16t to 200t.

Kalmar fleet solutions for ACFS

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Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has reported a recent order for Kalmar Fleet Solution with mobile equipment from Australian Container Freight Services (ACFS), for its operations in Adelaide, Fremantle and Melbourne. The order comprises three DCG100 ECH mast trucks and two DRG450 reach stackers.

Used cranes for Everett

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The Port of Everett held a groundbreaking ceremony this month to mark the construction of the port’s South Terminal Modernization project, and it is now looking for two used cranes for the terminal.