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Optimisation for SAGT

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SAGT at Colombo turns to Navis for optimsation and analytics services to get the most out of its N4 TOS.

Damen completes first Sendo Liner build

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Concordia Damen Shipyard has built the first Sendo Liner for Sendo Shipping, to carry containers between Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Groningen.

Bertram Rickmers launches feeder shipping company

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WorldCargo News understands that Hamburg shipowner Bertram Rickmers is again actively involved in the shipping business.

Capespan sets up firm focussed on logistics

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South African fresh fruit producer Capespan has established a standalone integrated logistics company.

BigLift and CY link up

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BigLift Shipping and Chung Yang Shipping (CY) have agreed to cooperate in heavy transport shipping.

RCL expands network

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Bangkok-based Regional Container Lines (RCL) has started a new feeder service connecting Port Klang and India’s Bay of Bengal port of Kolkata.

By the end of 2019, Marseilles-based CMA CGM and Geneva-headquartered MSC will be working together in a new service connecting ports in northern and southern Europe with the Indian Ocean and Australasia

SeaLand starts new feeder service to St Petersburg port

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SeaLand, a Maersk company, has expanded its operations in the Baltic Sea by starting a new weekly feeder service between Russia’s largest port and its parent company’s main transhipment hubs in Germany

Maersk to charter intra-Asia feeders

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The AP Møller-Maersk Group has concluded arrangements with a number of third-party ship finance/leasing entities that will result in 13 new 2,200 TEU feeder class ships being phased into its intra-Asia liner and feeder network in the next two years.

ZIM carrying more for less

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Israel’s ZIM carried more containers and increased its revenue generation in 2018, but lurched from making a profit in 2017 to booking a substantial net loss in 2018.

VMA mulls port storage charges

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The Vietnam Maritime Administration (VMA) has proposed cuts to the demurrage and associated service fees paid for containers stored in Vietnamese ports for long periods of time.

UECC orders two 3,600 CEU PCTCs

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United European Car Carriers (UECC), owned by NYK Line and Wallenius Lines, has signed a contract with China Shipbuilding Trading Co. Ltd and Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group Co. Ltd for two PCTCs. The first newbuild is expected to be delivered in 2021.

Buenos Aires terminals to merge

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The port authority for Buenos Aires (BA) has finally made its decision that the redevelopment of the Puerto Nuevo port area will merge the existing three container operations into just one

PSA into Gdansk

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After 13 years at the helm, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), MTAA Super, Australian Super and Statewide Super have agreed to sell 100% of the shares in DCT Gdańsk to a consortium of PSA International, the Polish Development Fund (PFR) and the IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (GIF) managed by IFM Investors. The deal is still subject to approval by competition authorities.

ILWU faces lawsuit

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Columbia Export Terminal LLC (CET) in the port of Portland is suing the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and 154 members of ILWU Locals 8 and 92 in Portland for wage fraud at its Terminal 5 grain facility.

Singapore orders AGVs for Tuas Mega Port

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Singapore’s PSA has ordered 160 fully electric AGVs for its Tuas Mega Port project. VDL Group will supply 80 machines, and another 80 will be delivered by the Land Systems (LS) division of Singapore’s ST Engineering, pursuant to its licensing agreement with Gaussin Manugistique.

Singamas to sell-off factories

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Singamas has announced it has entered into a Framework Agreement with a potential purchaser for five of its wholly owned subsidiary companies.

5G wheel loaders

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In a move with obvious implications for mobile handling equipment in ports, Telia, Ericsson and Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) have launched Sweden’s first 5G network for industrial use at Volvo CE’s R&D facility in Eskilstuna.

Gottwald model 8s for Yilport

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Two G HMK 8410 mobile harbour cranes will go to each of Turkey-based Yilport Holdings’ concessions in Puerto Quetzal (Guatemala) and in Puerto Bolivar (Ecuador) in Q2 and Q3 2019.

Kalmar starts discussion

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Kalmar president Antti Kaunonen has reached out to the industry to begin a discussion on performance guarantees for container handling equipment.

First Liebherr Stage V mobile harbour crane

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Liebherr has supplied its first mobile harbour crane that meets the new EU Stage V emission standards.

Unloaders for Ghent

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Steel maker ArcelorMittal has received the second of two Danieli gantry grab unloaders for its ore and coal reception terminal in the port of Ghent.

Mantsinen launches new 60 series cranes

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Having led the way in developing the world’s biggest hydraulic crane, the 300 series aimed at port operations, Mantsinen Group has also paid attention to the other end of the scale, and has introduced the 60 series, which is even more compact than its 70 series.

Hyster to test fuel cell reach stacker

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Hyster Europe has announced that it is developing a zero-emissions reach stacker featuring a hydrogen fuel cell for the Port of Valencia, as part of the European Horizon 2020 programme and the H2Ports project. The port will be the first in Europe to incorporate hydrogen energy into its operations.

Oslo on the road to zero

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Yilport is getting support from Oslo Havn KF (the Port of Oslo) as part of its drive to make the port a zero-emissions operation. Yilport, which operates the Port of Oslo’s container terminal, is eligible to receive up to NOK1.8M (US$210,000) towards the purchase of six electric forklifts to replace diesel-powered machines.

Konecranes data science laboratory

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Konecranes will open a data science laboratory in Lyon, France this April as part of the company’s continuing drive to digitalise products, services and operations to tap the benefits of the industrial internet.

Kalmar books hybrids

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Kalmar is to supply DP World with 63 hybrid straddle carriers for use at four of its European container terminals. Twelve units will be delivered to GMP in Le Havre, 20 to Eurofos in Marseilles, 19 to Antwerp Gateway, and 12 to DP World Southampton.

Noell for Thessaloniki

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Konecranes will shortly deliver 12 Konecranes Noell straddle carriers to Thessaloniki Port Authority SA, after a very short lead time from receipt of the order.

Konecranes RTGs for Massport in Boston

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Konecranes has announced that it will deliver four new RTGs to the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) in the USA in 2019.

TCVAL withdraws from Terminal 2 project in Chile’s port of Valparaíso

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Cerros de Valparaíso Terminal SA (TCVAL) has exercised its contractual rights and notified the Valparaíso Port Company (EPV) that it will end its concession agreement to build, maintain and operate Terminal 2 at Chile’s second largest container port.

Fitch report indicates slowdown in growth

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A new report published by Fitch Ratings indicates that container traffic growth at the world’s ports over the next decade will slowdown further.

New cranes for Russian Far East ports

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The Port of Vladivostok (VMTP), part of FESCO Transport Group, will receive five new multipurpose, double level-luffing portal cranes during 2020, as part of an equipment modernisation and upgrade programme for the port’s Universal Terminal (YT).

MSC to take over at Medcenter terminal?

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Contship Italia SpA, the Eurogate affiliate, has entered into negotiations to sell its 50% holding in CSM Italia Gate SpA, the company that controls Medcenter Container Terminal, to the 50% co-owner, MSC.

Brazilian port privatisation ramping up

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Brazilian port privatisation is going up through the gears this year, according to various announcements made at the Intermodal South America conference in São Paulo this month.

France’s Channel ports gear up for post-Brexit woes

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The Hauts-de-France seaports (Boulogne Calais, Dunkirk) and Eurotunnel will get a new Cargo Community System from MGI, called Channel Pass, open to all operators in the EU.

Brookfield adds Ports America

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This month, Brookfield Asset Management Inc. announced it is acquiring a majority stake (62%) in the Oaktree Capital Group LLC, which owns a majority stake in Ports America Holdings through Highstar Capital, which Oaktree acquired in 2014. CPP, one of Canada’s largest pension funds, also holds a 10% equity stake in Ports America.

And gets ready for much more

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At the end of 2018, Brookfield Asset Management was sitting on approximately US$35B in “deployable capital” as it continues to raise funds for an expected boom in infrastructure opportunities.

Promise for Spanish reforms

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The Spanish Government has promised to resolve the stevedoring impasse by 28 April, which is the date of the general election called by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Karmsund Port development plans

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Norway’s Karmsund Port Authority has ordered a Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour crane for the Haugesund Cargo Terminals in Husøy. Valued at €3.6M, the crane will be delivered in April 2019, and there is an option for four more units up to 2023.

Expensive flora ups Elbe dredging costs

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Although the Elbe deepening and improvement project finally got the legal all-clear last year after a 17-year battle, the Leipzig Court demanded that Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) made arrangements for the protection of the endangered water hemlock fennel.

F2I to invest in ports

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With a view to the possible disposal to Italian infrastructure investment fund F2I, Bogazzi group has transferred assets worth €53.3M, including port businesses, to a newco, Porto di Carrara Immobiliare.

QTerminals to offer transhipment incentives

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QTerminals, which operates container, ro-ro and livestockhandling facilities at the Port of Hamad in Qatar, is to offer a series of incentives to direct-call liner shipping services to tranship cargoes at the port.

New Russian Arctic port at Pechenga?

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The Russian government is considering giving federal backing to a new Arctic port at Pechenga, around 150 km northwest of the country’s main port, Murmansk.

Storage expansion at port of Novorossiysk

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Novoroslesexport Container Terminal (NLE), owned and operated by Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NMTP), has installed 720 new reefer sockets, increasing its one-time reefer storage capacity to 1,500 containers.

NYK’s PCTC monoceros leader

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At the turn of February/March, NYK’s PCTC monoceros leader offloaded more than 2,000 cars in the north Chilean port of Iquique.

Infranode for Gävle

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Swedish investment company Infranode is set to invest SEK400M (US$43.4M) to expand the container terminal in the port of Gävle.

Malta Freeport expands

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Malta Freeport is expanding its annual capacity to over 4M TEU. The facility handled 3.31M TEU last year, and is described by shareholder Yilport as “operating at elevated capacity in a difficult and highly competitive environment”.

Saudi Ports Authority to focus on productivity

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The Saudi Ports Authority (SPA) is putting in place policies that it hopes will double the number of containers handled at its ports by 2030 and substantially increase productivity levels by slashing container dwell times.

Cameroon’s Kribi port slashes fees by 20-30%

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The Autonomous Port of Kribi (PAK), the public company that manages the deepwater port of Kribi in southern Cameroon, is slashing its port dues and related maritime services (pilotage, docking and towage) fees by an average of 20-30%.

New structure proposed for Transnet

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The South African Government has proposed turning Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) into a separate stateowned company. Transport minister Blade Nzimande announced the plans at a conference in Durban in early March.

Deeper draught for Port of Abidjan

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The project to widen the Vridi Canal, which provides access to the Port of Abidjan via Ébrié Lagoon, has been completed. The canal, which was originally built in 1951, has been deepened from 14m to 22m, and widened from 200m to 350m.

Canadian ports not so secure

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The long-standing presence of members or affiliates of motorcycle gangs and underworld crime families in port unions at Vancouver and Montreal, Canada’s two largest import gateways, is being linked to a significant increase in theft of SUVs and high-end pickup trucks for smuggling out of the country.

Doubts over Port Sudan

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It has been reported that repeated strikes against plans for a concession to operate South Port Container Terminal (SPCT) at Port Sudan could persuade the government to back down on the issue.

DP World’s logistics focus

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DP World’s 2018 financial results highlight how the global port operator is looking to diversify its business. In 2018, it made a series of “strategic acquisitions that offer solutions to cargo owners, and we believe these assets not only provide growth opportunities, but importantly add stickiness to some of our existing port volumes”, said Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, group chairman and CEO.

Sumitomo eyes logistics facilities

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Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation has announced that it is considering setting up a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused primarily on investments in logistics facilities through its wholly owned subsidiary Sumisho Realty Management Co. Ltd.

CMA CGM gets its Modjo

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Ethiopian President SahleWork Zewde and French President Emmanuel Macron signed seven trade/investmentrelated agreements during the latter’s recent state visit to Addis Ababa, aimed at promoting commercial links. President Macron’s party included CMA CGM’s president and CEO Rodolphe Saadé, and two of the deals concern the French line directly.

CN takes the digital track

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Montreal-based Canadian National Railway (CN) is rolling out several pilot projects this year as part of a move to “digitise” its operations to reduce costs.

CAI sells off railcar fleet

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Container leasing heavyweight CAI International has announced the sale of 30% of its railcar fleet. The company is selling 2,146 railcars for approximately US$200M.

More palletwide high cubes for P&O Ferrymasters

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P&O Ferrymasters has ordered 600 new 45ft palletwide high cube containers to add to its growing fleet as it further develops and expands its intermodal network.

Autonomous inland vessels

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DLR, the German Centre for Aviation and Space Flight, is to set up a digital test field for autonomous inland waterway vessels on the Oder-Spree inland waterway in eastern Germany, in association with Königs Wusterhausen and Eisenhüttenstadt, Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH and the Federal Association of Inland Ports (BöB).