Esperance undecided

The US and Japan are moving much closer together as the US looks to move quickly to remove China as a supplier of infrastructure and other systems it deems as critical infrastructure and/or a cyber security risk.

The terminal is the nation’s inaugural metropolitan ‘independent’ interstate terminal, as it operates under an open-access framework.

The first of the new automated Kalmar cranes have started arriving at Qube’s Moorebank Logistics Park facility, southwest Sydney. The design for Moorebank features a 1.5M TEU terminal with lowheight RMGs handling trains to buffer stacks under one cantilever of larger ASCs, plus several other innovations.

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.