Minister for Ports David Hodgett welcomed today’s news from the Port of Melbourne Corporation, announcing a shortlist of bidders to build and operate Melbourne’s third interna tional container terminal. “The $1.6 billion Port Capacity Project is a critical infrastructure project that will drive competition and fundamentally enhance Victoria’s future economic growth,” Mr Hodgett said. “I’m [...]
In view of the ongoing disastrous situation in the shipping business and also due to missing impulses for action from the recent 8th Maritime Conference in Kiel, a small group of ship-owners from Leer, Germany, appeals for a concerted action to reduce capacity in the market. A jointly executed strategy to shorten shipping capacity should [...]
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BMT Isis, a subsidiary of BMT Group, the international engineering, maritime and risk management consultancy, has recently completed a berth capacity study for Knauf ahead of significant planned investment for its jetty located on the Swale in the south east of England. The Grovehurst Jetty near Ridham Dock is operated by Knauf to import [...]
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In 2012, the capacity of the Merchant Sea Port of Ust-Luga increased 2 times and reached 46,612,449.255 tons. Such a growth occurred due to the forthcoming of new cargoes as well as a systematic increase in transshipments by existing terminals. Totally, stevedoring companies transshipped 472,231.424 tons of general cargoes, 15,591,379.754 tons of coal, 922,931.230 tons [...]
In view of declining demand on the Asia-Europe trade, Maersk Line is further reducing capacity by removing the AE5 service permanently and suspending the AE9 service until early December 2012. Maersk Line will continue to provide customers with a broad and competitive range of services on this trade. “We do not expect volume growth on [...]
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Höegh Autoliners has entered into 12 year bare boat charters for two 6 500 car capacity Pure Car Truck Carriers (PCTC) to be delivered in 2014. The vessels will be owned by Ocean Yield AS and will be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s (DSME) shipyard in Mangalia, Romania. Höegh Autoliners has previously taken [...]
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With the purchase of a brand new vessel and a contract for an additional new jack-up ship, the Aarhus-based company DBB Jack-Up Services is cornering the market of specialised service for the offshore wind turbine industry. Both new vessels are considerably more technically advanced than other vessels in the market and moreover, the two new [...]
As part of its continued focus on efficiency and commitment to customers, DP World Aden this month received and operated an additional two gantry cranes, bringing up to seven the number of cranes at the Aden Container Terminal (ACT). The two new Liebherrs Super Post Panamax quay cranes with a capacity of 65 tons and [...]
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The commitment of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia through boosting capacity building in the region has been underlined with the signing of five strategic partnerships with a number of UN agencies and the EU, following a Conference on Capacity Building to Counter Piracy off the Coast of [...]
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APM Terminals has announced that it will invest more than US$100 million to increase the capacity of the Poti Port over the next three years, Port Technology reports. The plans include the build of both new container and bulk cargo facilities and the deepening of the port’s harbor. This expansion will increase Poti’s capacity by [...]
