At its meeting of 14th June 2013, the Luka Koper Supervisory Board was presented with, and endorsed, plans for the extension of the southern side of Pier I, an investment which will increase capacity at the Container Terminal by an additional 230,000 TEUs per year above the current 720,000 TEUs. In addition to the dredging [...]
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 [...]
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. and Global Infrastructure Partners and a group of its LP Co-Investors have closed the transaction through which GIP has acquired 35% of Terminal Investment Limited SA from MSC. The closing follows obtaining the relevant approvals. TIL has grown rapidly over the last decade and is now the world’s sixth largest [...]
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A team of editors of World Maritime News portal has paid a visit to one of the major ports of the Adriatic coast, the Port of Bar in Montenegro. Over the past five years, the port management was divided into two operators, Luka Bar AD and AD Container Terminal. Luka Bar AD rated this year’s [...]
The CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt, the second 16,000 TEU mega container ship of the French shipping line CMA CGM, docked Wednesday, 22 May 2013, at the EUROGATE Tanger container terminal in Morocco on her maiden voyage. The vessel, which put to sea on her maiden voyage in Pusan/South Korea on 19 April, belongs to [...]
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Under the auspice of HE Said Hamdoon, Undersecretary Ministry of Transport and Communication, Oman International Container Terminal ground breaking ceremony took place on May 16th to mark the start of the expansion of their container terminal capacity in Sohar. The construction will pave the way to increase the terminals’ capacity from the current 800,000 TEU [...]
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Five Konecranes Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes are currently being erected at the Meridian Port Services (MPS) container terminal in Tema, Ghana. The cranes are part of an order placed in August 2012. MPS already operates four Konecranes RTGs, which were delivered fully-erect in March 2013. MPS’s RTGs are all-electric, 16-wheel cranes with a lifting [...]
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The Port of Los Angeles has awarded Ports America the contract to provide operation, management and maintenance of the Port of Los Angeles Cruise Terminal at Berth 90-43 in San Pedro, Calif., known as the World Cruise Center. The five-year agreement, commencing April 2013, includes two 5-year options. Among the services that Ports America will [...]
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Governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley, joined by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and private sector partners from Highstar Capital and Ports America Chesapeake, led the celebration on May 8th of a new 50-foot-deep berth and four supersized container cranes at the Port of Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal. The project is part of a larger public-private partnership [...]
This year, during the celebration of the 12th Spanish Coast and Port Engineering Congress, Siport21 presented four projects which sum up part of their daily technical activity. Two of them were carried out for mexican ports: the Manoeuvrability Study of Port of Altamira and Ship Manoeuvring Study of LNG Carriers at Port of Manzanillo. The [...]
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