TTS introduces SafeRoll
NewsTTS Liftec Oy, part of TTS Group ASA, has introduced a new, patented product, Liftec SafeRoll, to increase the safety of driving cassette/tr...
Banana win for Marseilles
NewsMarseilles has started to handle weekly banana imports from the Ivory Coast under a new reefer container deal with CMA CGM worth 80 TEU per ...
Spanish stevedoring reforms
NewsJosé Llorca, president of Spain’s national ports agency (Puertos del Estado), has stated that while changes will have to be made in the w...
Spain’s stevedoring practices in the dock
NewsAs if the Gijón port scandal were not enough (WorldCargo News, December 2014, p1), Spain is also at odds with the EU over stevedoring pract...
Awash with opportunities
NewsUS east and Gulf coasts ports are poised to increase their share of the nation’s container business, provided they make the right strategi...
Rocky road to automation in Brisbane
NewsDP World has had integration issues at Brisbane, but flatly rejects claims its new automated terminal is a failure....
HPH threat provokes Australian rivals
NewsOne denies it, the other admits it, but it seems clear that Australia’s stevedoring duopoly is finally gearing up to battle imminent newco...
"Breakthrough" for breakbulk in Antwerp
NewsThe port authority says a new social agreement will boost the port's competitiveness for breakbulk and project cargo handling operations...
Problems mount for Valencia
NewsFears expressed by Spanish ports that they might not be able to compete with labour rates being offered by Morocco’s Tanger-Med port appea...
Capesize berth for Ovet
NewsDry bulk stevedore Ovet in Vlissingen (ZSP Zeeland Seaports) will get a new deepsea quay wall that will allow it to accommodate two Capesize...
Stukwerkers into GCT
NewsStukwerkers Havenbedrijf NV, traditionally one of the most important stevedoring companies in the Port of Ghent, has taken a share in Gent C...
Sydney still seeking landside relief
NewsAustralia’s number two containerport is still grappling with ways to keep landside container logistics performance at levels that ensure m...
Dock death prompts code call
NewsThe death of a dockworker at Port Botany in late March has prompted waterside workers to increase pressure on the Australian government for ...
First for GPA’s Rescue One
NewsThe Georgia Ports Authority (GPA)’s “Rescue One” emergency container was subjected to its first real test last month when called upon ...
…as Melbourne joins third operator push
NewsThe Victorian Government has fallen into line behind its Queensland and New South Wales counterparts and will host a third container stevedo...