BIFA wants compensation for Felixstowe TOS problems

Hutchison Ports’ Port of Felixstowe has kick started its autonomous truck project featuring Westwell’s Q-Trucks.

The new cranes were manufactured by ZPMC at its Nantong facility in China. They will join eight other ARTGs ZPMC previously delivered to YICT.

“Environmental and sustainability issues are not new. Whilst the focus is often on carbon emissions, there are other wide-ranging generic issues.”

Plans to develop a 25-ha depot to store empty containers and a barge/feeder terminal on the Rotterdam Maasvlakte are likely to be abandoned in favour of a facility for Medrepair, a subsidiary of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).

The MUMBAI MAERSK has set a new record for the deepest draft vessel to call at Hutchison Ports’ Port of Felixstowe. The 20,568 TEU capacity ship arrived on 11 November from Bremerhaven with a draft of 16.8m and sailed 24 hours later with a draft of 17.0m

Synergy, the Spanish logistics arm of Hutchison Ports, will connect the BEST (Barcelona Europe South Terminal) to Toulouse by rail three times a week each way, starting next month