Gulftainer sells TCT

A rehabilitation plan has been presented for the Port of Beirut following devastating explosion.

Sharjah-based port operator Gulftainer is investigating the possibility of bringing in mobile harbour cranes to try and entice lines to its new concession in Lebanon

International Container Terminal Services has announced the pull-out of its business in the Syrian Arab Republic due to the civil war

A Lebanese government plan to award a construction tender for the Port of Tripoli appears to have been delayed

In what the Lebanon Daily Star says is the first deal of its kind in the country, MSC is to use the Port of Beirut as a regional transhipment hub, feeding traffic from the Far East for Turkey, Syria, Egypt and other East Med destinations, instead of using Marsaxxlok or Piraeus for this purpose and cutting days off the overall transport time – as much as 20 days (from 35 to 15), MSC’s regional manager MSC Kheirallah al-Zein is quoted.

Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZPMC) has reportedly beaten off four rival bids to supply the Port of Beirut with three ship-to-shore cranes and six RTGs, for a price of US$21.5 mill.