South Carolina Ports Authority has kicked off the new fiscal year with a 13 percent rise in container volumes handled in the first two months of the fiscal calendar. The SCPA handled 163,970 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in August, an increase from 144,649 TEUs moved during the same month last year and 153,916 handled in July, […]
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Growing concerns about the state of the world’s oceans and the impact that shipping has on quality of the air has led to ever more legislation on emissions. The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) and Colfax Fluid Handling, are working together to investigate perceptions of the ‘Green Agenda’ and whether shipping companies […]
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The congestion which troubled the Rotterdam container sector during the past few months seems to be decreasing, the Port Rotterdam Authority reports. Inland shipping operators report that increasingly more ships are being handled on schedule. According to ECT, the situation is now under control. Sector organisation CBRB with which most barge operators are affiliated, remains […]
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Transport Malta has strongly rebutted Valletta Gateway Terminal’s (VGT) unilateral decision to raise port handling charges, technically known as Terminal Operator Charges (TOC). VGT issued a Public Notice to its customers on August 14, stating that the new rates will apply as from September 1, 2014. “During discussions held with the port terminal operator, Transport Malta […]
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The online market survey implemented by an unnamed German trade paper for transport and logistics reported that 84 percent of respondents stated that they were already routing imports and exports in container traffic via other ports due to handling problems. The newspaper presented the findings of its online market survey of customers of the Port of […]
Container volumes at the Commercial Port of Vladivostok, part of Russian transport group FESCO, have reached a new record in June, the group said. The port’s monthly container throughput hit a record high of 47,770 TEUs, or a 22% gain on the previous record box volume handled in November 2013 (46,46 TEUs). During January-July […]
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The Norwegian Port of Drammen has opted for a new Liebherr mobile harbour crane, type LHM 550, which has started operation in June 2014. This is the second mobile harbour crane for the port, the other being an LHM 400 in operation since 2008. With this new investment, Port of Drammen has doubled its container handling capacity. […]
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The press coverage of an LNG bunkering leakage incident in Norway coincided with the second technical committee meeting of the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel’s (SGMF) held in London at the end of June, confirming the urgent need within the industry for guidelines and policy. The LNG leakage incident that occurred during truck […]
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received further orders, worth around $50m, for optimised cargo handling systems from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd in South Korea. The latest contract stems from the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) exercising its options for six more A-14-series and one more A-18-series container vessels from the yard, taking the total […]
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Terex Port Solutions (TPS) will supply the Brazilian fertilizer manufacturer Yara Brasil Fertilizantes S.A. (Yara) with a system solution for unloading raw materials for fertilizer manufacture. Two Terex® Gottwald Model 6 portal harbour cranes in the G HSK 6448 B four-rope-grab variant and two Terex® HSH 1200 DS hoppers will start work in April and […]
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