The third Barometer Report from Trelleborg’s Marine Systems business has revealed that an overwhelming majority – over 90% – of those surveyed suffer from unscheduled downtime at their facility. Trelleborg’s annual Barometer Report, which has been running for three years, has previously discovered that ports are suffering from high levels of downtime, but this is [...]
Transas Marine Pacific and its local representative in Indonesia have been awarded new contracts from the Government Department of Sea Transportation to supply and install Vessel Traffic Management Systems for Samarinda and Banjarmasin ports. In addition to this, Transas will upgrade the current VTS system in the Semarang port with a fully redundant AIS Base [...]
Harvey Gulf International Marine CEO, Shane Guidry, announced today that Harvey Gulf has secured plans to construct and operate the first LNG marine fueling facility in the United States, to be located at its vessel facility in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The fueling facility will be a vital addition to the growing national LNG supply infrastructure, [...]
Over 300 industry guests gathered at the Port of Liverpool recently (Thursday, June 6th) to toast the launch of Peel Ports’ landmark deep water container terminal Liverpool2. Sir Bobby Charlton and ‘King’ Kenny Dalglish pushed the button on the start of dredging and launched a dazzling display of fireworks over the site of the new [...]
Kiel now has a third berth for big cruise ships. During a ceremony in the Ostuferhafen on Sunday morning June 9th the new Berth 1 cruise ship handling facility was officially opened just after the arrival of Holland America Line’s “Eurodam”. On the gangway to the ship a ribbon was cut to officially mark the [...]
Four massive new ship-to-shore cranes arrived at Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal today, bringing the total number of electric-powered container cranes to 25 – the most of any single terminal in the U.S. “These new super-post Panamax cranes further enhance the cargo handling efficiency at the fourth-busiest container terminal in the nation,” said GPA [...]
Weifang Port is planning an expansion of its capacity with an investment worth approximately USD 1.6 Billion, reports SinoShip News Portal. The plan is to build thirteen 5000- ton class berths and at least nineteen 20,000- ton class berths in the next three years. Speaking in the long-term, Weifang Port intends to raise its capacity [...]
The first container vessel in the recently adjusted CEM/ANN service of Evergreen Lines and Hanjin Shipping Lines is expected to arrive in Zeebrugge on July 19. The container vessels of the CEM/ANN service will be handled at PSA’s Zeebrugge International Port Terminal. Earlier this year, Evergreen and Hanjin announced a series of changes to the [...]
From today, Vitol Group’s physical bunker supply locations will be marketed as part of the V-Marine Fuels portfolio, enabling clients to benefit from a single point of contact and synergies across the various bunker operations. V-Marine Fuels was launched by Cockett Group in March 2013 in order to offer clients a dedicated physical bunkering supply [...]
Port Manatee and Docas do Rio de Janeiro (the Rio de Janeiro Port Authority) will become International Sister Seaports, establishing new opportunities for foreign trade between the U.S. and Brazil and marking the first time a Florida Gulf Coast seaport has entered into such an agreement. Jorge Luiz de Mello, president-director of the Rio de [...]
