Autoterminal signs up for Morocco terminal

Tanger Med 2 is to take over Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA), taking the latter’s name in the process. The new TMPA will control both sides of the container port, Tanger 1 and Tanger 2, as well as the ro-ro and passenger terminals.

The Moroccan state port company Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP) has signed a €100M loan agreement with Paris-based Agence Française de Développement (AFD). At the same time, a Technical Assistance Grant worth €800,000 was agreed between the two parties.

Liebherr Group has orders for two intermodal RMGs and has just placed another LPS 420 crane in the Russian market; four Vityaz double-lever cranes from SMM SevMorMontazh have recently been delivered to the same customer

APM Terminals in Los Angeles claims a container exchange record on a North American call.

The International Longshoremen’s Association has agreed a new 6-year Master Contract.

HES International has been taken over by American bank Goldman Sachs and Australia’s Macquarie Group. The Rotterdam-based dry and liquid bulk terminal operator has changed hands for €2B, according to Reuters