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  • Montrose Port Authority Bags Baker Hughes Contract Extension

    8 January 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    The Montrose Port Authority (MPA) has signed a seven-year extension to its contract with Baker Hughes for the provision of internal and external storage facilities. Captain Tom Hutchison, CEO of Montrose Port Authority said: “We are delighted to extend what is already a long-standing and mutually beneficial relationship with Baker Hughes. This contract extension supports […]

  • UK: Harwich International Port Celebrates New Transit Call

    29 August 2012

    Harwich International Port welcomed the inaugural call of the Grand Mistral on Monday 27th August 2012. This call marks the first ever call of the Iberocruceros cruise line at the Essex port. The ship has been deployed in the Norwegian Fjords during the summer months and arrives at Harwich International from Copenhagen. The Spanish cruise […]

  • Balfour Beatty Publishes Paper on Coastal Risk Management

    24 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has just published its latest paper named “Ten Steps to Efficiency in Flood and Coastal Risk Management”. The paper outlines ten points that could enable commissioning authorities, government and the infrastructure industry to achieve efficiencies in delivering and maintaining flood defenses, without compromising on quality or safety. These range […]

  • Poland’s Port of Gdynia looks into hydrogen use

    17 December 2021
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Gdynia Authority, terminals, and Gdynia are considering the use of hydrogen and the creation of a hydrogen hub.

  • Kongsberg Expands Underwater Glider Portfolio with Two New Systems

    9 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Kongsberg Underwater Technology, Inc. has agreed with CoMotion, the University of Washington’s collaborative innovation hub, to obtain the sole rights to produce, market, and continue development of two new underwater glider systems. Both new glider systems are based in part on the original, Seaglider design. The first vehicle, Deepglider, is designed for operation to a maximum […]

  • UK: Port of Felixstowe Welcomes World’s Largest Container Ships

    16 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Port of Felixstowe has handled four of the world’s largest container ships in 24 hours and become the first port in the UK to handle an 18,000 TEU vessel. The period of intense activity at the UK’s busiest container port began with the arrival of the 13,000 TEU MSC Capella, and included maiden calls […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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 […]