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  • Soaring Container Volumes at Ports of Stockholm

    27 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Following the record 37 percent increase last year, container freight is continuing to climb steeply at the Swedish Ports of Stokholm, according to the latest figures. “Customers want their goods to be transported by sea, directly to the growing Stockholm region,” Ports of Stokholm said in a release. The end of August figures show a […]

  • Port of Felixstowe: New Productivity Record (UK)

    26 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Customers at the Port of Felixstowe are benefitting from fast vessel turnarounds on the quayside as a result of a program of continuous improvements. Felixstowe set a new record for the number of container moves in a 12 hour shift with the recent call of the Maersk Sarnia. A total of 3431 exchanges were completed […]

  • Spotted: Madrid Maersk Giant Visits Felixstowe

    7 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    The 20,568 TEU Madrid Maersk, the largest container ship to call in North Europe so far, has made its maiden call at the UK’s Port of Felixstowe. Operated on the 2M NEU2 Asia to Europe service, the giant has arrived at the port with over 6,000 TEU for the UK loaded in China and Malaysia. […]

  • Panama pushes back against US statement on canal fees, calling it ‘false’

    7 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Ports & Logistics

    Despite a US State Department announcement stating that US Navy ships can transit the Panama Canal without fees, the canal’s governing authority has asserted that they are not exempt from tolls just yet. On February 5, 2025, the US State Department said in a post on X , formerly Twitter, that the United States government […]

  • ITF Dockers Start Fight for Safety after JICT Incident

    10 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    ITF Dockers agreed to aggressively work on improving safety after an incident involving chemicals at the JICT.

  • Quanwan Port Zone Hosts HICT Grand Opening (China)

    23 January 2013

    The grand opening of Huizhou International Container Terminals (HICT), the groundbreaking ceremony for a 50,000 tonne petrochemical terminal, and the launch of a 30,000 tonne oil terminal expansion project, was held at the Quanwan Port Zone (QPZ) on 22 January. About 400 guests, including Huizhou Party Secretary HUANG Yebin, Mayor CHEN Yiwei, officials from Huizhou […]

  • HPH Trust Sees Slight Drop in Revenue, Volumes

    10 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Singapore-listed container port business trust Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) ended 2016 with its revenue and other income at HKD 11.9 billion (USD 1.5 billion), representing a drop of 5.6 percent from the previous year’s HKD 12.6 billion (USD 1.6 billion). The container throughput of HPH’s Hong Kong terminals HIT decreased by 6.2% as […]

  • Fresh bids for Colombo harbour project

    6 August 2008

    Project Updates – August 6, 2008 News media in the country say the Ggovernment of Sri Lanka plans to call for fresh bids for the construction of the first terminal at the new Colombo South Harbour next month. Quoting the Sri Lanka Ports Authority Chairman Saliya Wickramasuriya, sources said that, in February this year after […]

  • Laing O’Rourke wins London Gateway project

    18 July 2008

    News – July 18, 2008 CNPlus reports that Laing O’Rourke has beaten two rivals to win the first package of work for the £1.5 billion London Gateway for client DP World. Said CNPlus: “The news is a blow to rivals Costain and a Nuttall/Van Oord joint venture which had also been pricing the deal.” One […]

  • UK: Felixstowe Expansion Commences

    14 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Work has started at the Port of Felixstowe on the latest expansion of the UK’s largest container port. VSBW Joint Venture, a consortium of VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, has been appointed as the lead contractor to extend the port’s Berth 9 by 190 metres. The work will increase the combined lengths of Berths 8 and […]

  • Operators Ink Co-Management Deal for Kwai Tsing Terminals

    20 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    COSCO-HIT Terminals (Hong Kong) Limited (CHT), Asia Container Terminals Limited (ACT) and Hongkong International Terminals Limited (HIT) have signed a co-management deal in relation to the operation of the 16 berths across Terminals 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of Kwai Tsing, New Territories, Hong Kong. Taking into account the changing dynamics of the shipping […]

  • Hudson River PCB Forum Scheduled for November 11

    3 November 2014

    As General Electric (GE) prepares to decommission its multimillion-dollar infrastructure for the cleanup of toxic PCBs in the Hudson River, upriver and downriver officials and community leaders are joining environmental advocates in ramping up public pressure for GE to address its additional responsibilities related to the cleanup. Because current cleanup plans only address 65 percent […]

  • HPH Trust Ends 2018 with Major Loss

    13 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    HPH Trust ended 2018 with loss of HKD 10.2 billion, compared to a profit of HKD 2.2 billion reported in 2017.

  • Stockholm Norvik Port opens for business

    18 December 2020
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    Stockholm Norvik Port, Sweden’s newest major port, has opened on time and on budget despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The entire Stockholm Norvik Port is now operational, with a container terminal that opened in May and a RoRo terminal that opened in November. “Now that all of Stockholm Norvik Port is finally completed, we can offer […]

  • Australia: SICTL to Begin Its Initial Operations Soon

    14 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Hutchison Port Holding’s Sydney International Container Terminals at Port Botany is on track to begin its initial operations later this year. This week four specially built post-panamax quay cranes arrived at the company’s terminal. The cranes, each weighing in the order of 1600 tonnes, have special ‘shuttle’ booms that retract horizontally rather than the more […]

  • BEST Extends Cranes to Handle Boxship Giants

    22 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST) has increased the height of three ship-to-shore (STS) gantry cranes.

  • Liners, Terminal Operators to Become Shareholders of Global Shipping Business Network

    27 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Nine ocean carriers and terminal operators have signed a shareholders’ agreement.

  • Shipping Majors Sign Up for CargoSmart-Led Data Exchange Platform

    12 July 2019

    Data sharing is an important aspect of the maritime industry’s digitalization efforts.

  • Global Container Volumes to Shoot Up

    9 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Volumes of handled cargo at container ports are expected to accelerate considerably on annual level, according to UK-based shipping consultants Drewry. 840m TEU% estimated container volume growth by 2018 By 2018, the world’s container ports are forecast to handle more than 840 million teu a year, which is  double the 2004 throughput figure of 363m teu, […]

  • Global Terminal Operators Launch Go Green Initiative

    7 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Leading container terminal and port operators have teamed up to launch the ‘Go Green’ – the first ever joint industry initiative to promote environmental awareness and make a sustainable difference in the communities in which they operate. Global marine terminal operators DP World, Hutchison Port Holdings Limited (HPH), APM Terminals, PSA International and Shanghai International […]

  • London Thamesport Clinches West African Ro-Ro Service

    28 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Netherlands-based RMR Shipping has chosen London Thamesport to handle the UK call of its North West Europe – West Africa Ro-Ro service. The first call of the service was made by the 176-metre long Ro-Ro vessel Dresden on May 25, 2014. The vessel has the versatility to handle a wide variety of cargoes through […]

  • OES examines EIA tools for marine renewables

    24 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Energy Systems (OES) Annex IV project has organized a webinar to discuss three tools that can be employed for addressing environmental impact assessment (EIA) concerns around marine renewable energy deployments.

  • HPA, MUA Extend Talks on Sacked Workers

    8 October 2015
    Business & Finance

     Stevedoring company Hutchison Ports Australia (HPA) and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) today inked a new agreement to extend negotiations until November 16 as they continue conciliation proceedings in the Fair Work Commission (FWC). The extension follows a six-week negotiation process of the two parties following the sacking of 97 wharfies last August. The layoffs were prevented […]

  • Port Botany Terminal 3 Project Celebrates Major Milestone

    17 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    The first ship has tied-up at the nation’s newest port facility – Sydney Port Botany Terminal 3 – marking a significant first-year milestone for the Laing O’Rourke delivery team. The vessel BBC PLATA tied up at what will be the new Sydney International Container Terminal freight hub, after construction crews worked hard to ensure advanced […]

  • UK: Port of Felixstowe Welcomes New Transatlantic Service

    5 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Port of Felixstowe is celebrating the start of a new Transatlantic service which called at Britain’s largest container port on Saturday 3rd March 2012. The service which is operated by The New World Alliance Lines will serve N. Europe, the UK and a selection of US East Coast ports and Panama. The Americas Europe […]