Expansion agreed for SCCT
NewsOn 17 November, APM Terminals announced that it had signed a concession agreement with the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) to expand Suez ...
North Africa looks to scale up
NewsWhile ports in Morocco and Egypt continue to plan expansions, a rival in Algeria also has designs on the transhipment market....
Major incident at SCCT
NewsAfter being struck by a vessel, a crane has collapsed and started a fire at the Suez Canal Container Terminal in East Port Said, Egypt....
SCCT to get its side channel
NewsOperations at Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT), Egypt’s largest container handling facility, will be boosted by the decision of the Su...
East Port Said access agreement
NewsThe Suez Canal Authority has agreed to build a side channel to allow vessels to access East Port Said port independently of Suez Canal convo...
SCCT “side-channel” dredge starts
NewsHot on the heels of the opening of the new Suez Canal last week comes the announcement from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) that work on a ne...
SCCT to buy more cranes
NewsEgypt’s Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT), located in East Port Said, is to take delivery of four more super post-Panamax STS cranes as...
East Port Said “side-channel” to be built
NewsThis Thursday’s opening of the new Suez Canal is likely to be accompanied by an announcement that a new side-channel to the canal’s Medi...
SCCT throughput surpasses 3M TEU in 2013
NewsPort Said's Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT), which is managed by APM Terminals, processed more than 3.1M TEU and handled 2,355 ships in...
New barge service for Suez Canal
NewsThe National Company for Multimodal Transport (NMT), a subsidiary of Nile Logistics, Citadel Capital’s platform for investment in the rive...
SCCT gears up to handle bigger ships
News“It’s all about handling big ships and handling them efficiently,” said Klaus Holm Laursen, CEO of APM Terrminals’ Suez Canal Contai...
North Africa’s ports looking to the future
NewsNorth Africa’s maritime trading potential remains considerable despite the political and economic storms of the past two years. Moreover, ...
Tideworks outlines next platform
NewsTideworks has launched Mainsail Vanguard, its next generation TOS based on Adobe Flex....
Suez Canal Container Terminal posts 11% increase
NewsA throughput increase of 11% in 2009 brought total volume to 2.7M TEU and the Phase II plan to double capacity to 5.4M TEU is on schedule...
Konecranes lifting business in Egypt
News2009 was obviously difficult for Konecranes, along with other suppliers of port handling equipment and services. Yet the year also brought n...