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  • Harwich International Port Assists Energy Skills Centre (UK)

    17 October 2011
    Human Capital

      Harwich International Port is joining forces with Colchester Institute, the largest vocational training provider in North Essex, in order to create ‘The Energy Skills Centre at Harwich.’ The new Skills Centre, to be developed in Harwich, will have an engineering focus and is designed to meet the current needs of employers in the area, […]

  • HMS Echo Maps Unseen Wrecks, Reefs and Rocks Off Libyan Coast

    8 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    HMS Echo used her sophisticated sonar equipment to map unseen wrecks, reefs and rocks off the Libyan coast and make navigation less hazardous. Significant discoveries included a number of uncharted wrecks in shipping lanes which could have posed a danger to vessels. The operation was the ship’s second visit to Libya following a successful trip […]

  • Cosco England Makes Maiden Call at Port of Felixstowe

    11 October 2013
    Business & Finance

      The 13,400 TEU Cosco England, the newest addition to the Cosco fleet, has made its maiden call at the UK’s Port of Felixstowe. Registered in Hong Kong, the giant container ship is deployed on Cosco’s NE1 Asia – Europe service. With a length overall of 366 metres and a 153,666 deadweight tonnage, the Cosco […]

  • Workers at Melbourne container terminal lock in pay increase in new enterprise deal

    2 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Human Capital, Ports & Logistics

    Workers at the Victoria International Container Terminal at Melbourne’s Webb Dock have reached a deal with their employer on a new enterprise agreement locking in new employee benefits. The Maritime Union of Australia said the agreement would deliver immediate benefits to the workforce, with 75 per cent of casual roles being converted to permanent jobs, […]

  • ACCC: Stevedores’ Profitability Down But Infrastructure Charges Up

    30 October 2018

    Profitability of stevedores falling despite increases in infrastructure charges, ACCC said in a report.

  • APL to Add New, Modify Existing Three Services

    16 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Singapore-based container shipping company APL plans to launch three new weekly services and revise its Latin America services network. The three new services are Japan Straits Express (JSX), Japan Express (JPX) and China Southeast Asia Service 5 (CS5). The JSX service will link the Kanto and Kansai regions of Japan with transshipment hubs of Singapore and […]

  • Kite Power Reaching For New Heights

    14 April 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Natural Power has been appointed by Kite Power Solutions (KPS) to support proposals for consenting a test and development site at RAF West Freugh, now operated by QinetiQ, near Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Founded in 2011, KPS was established to develop a deep water wind energy technology that can be deployed anywhere in […]

  • Kite Power Reaching For New Heights

    14 April 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Natural Power has been appointed by Kite Power Solutions (KPS) to support proposals for consenting a test and development site at RAF West Freugh, now operated by QinetiQ, near Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Founded in 2011, KPS was established to develop a deep water wind energy technology that can be deployed anywhere in […]

  • UK: Port of Felixstowe Passes 70m TEU Milestone

    21 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Port of Felixstowe passed another milestone today (21 August 2013) when it handled the 70th million TEU since container operations began at the port in the mid-1960s. The landmark container was loaded aboard the 13,800-TEU MSC Bettina by the Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP, UK Secretary of State for Transport, driving a huge container […]

  • Intermed Defends Role of Mediterranean Ports

    22 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Last week in the European Parliament the Intermed association, comprising the ports of Barcelona, Marseilles and Genoa, defended the excellent potential of Mediterranean ports to achieve more balanced and sustainable logistics in Europe. The president of the association and most senior representative of the port of Marseilles, Mr Jean- Claude Terrier, presented the paper “The […]

  • UK: Harwich Has the Potential to Become Major Player in Offshore Wind Industry

    23 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Harwich has all the potential and advantages to make it a major player in the offshore wind energy industry – it just needs a level playing field to compete on with its competitors. That was the message to Greg Barker, Government Minister for Energy and Climate Change, from a business delegation in the town on […]

  • Harwich Has the Potential to Become Major Player in Offshore Wind Industry (UK)

    23 September 2013
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Harwich has all the potential and advantages to make it a major player in the offshore wind energy industry – it just needs a level playing field to compete on with its competitors. That was the message to Greg Barker, Government Minister for Energy and Climate Change, from a business delegation in the town on […]

  • UK: Port of Felixstowe Receives New Cranes

    6 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    The UK’s Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, has visited the Port of Felixstowe, the country’s largest container port, to see it take delivery of its latest consignment of new cranes. Whilst at the port, the Secretary of State met with senior management of the port, before a tour of […]

  • UK: Port of Felixstowe Formally Opens New Deep Water Shipping Terminal

    28 September 2011
    Business & Finance

      The Port of Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port, formally opens a new deep water shipping terminal. The new terminal which consists of two berths – Berths 8&9 – is the first stage of a £1 billion plus inward investment programme in Hutchison’s UK ports. Currently the Port of Felixstowe deals with over 40 […]

  • Sweden’s King and Crown Princess inaugurate Stockholm Norvik port

    27 April 2023
    Green Marine

    Sweden’s newest major freight port, Stockholm Norvik, has been officially inaugurated by His Majesty The King and Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Sweden. Sweden’s newest freight port opened for business already in 2020. The opening, however, was just when the pandemic was at its height, which meant that the official opening ceremony had […]

  • Army Corps Galveston District’s Public Affairs Office Wins Top Honors (USA)

    23 February 2012

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District’s Public Affairs Office captured one first-place award, a second-place award and a third-place award in the 2011 USACE Herbert A. Kassner Public Affairs Competition. Public affairs staff earned a first-place unit award for outstanding achievements in the realm of community relations for its water safety campaign, a […]

  • ORJIP for Ocean Energy Supports UK Wave and Tidal

    20 March 2015

    The Crown Estate, Marine Scotland and Welsh Government have announced they will be funding Aquatera Ltd and their delivery partners MarineSpace and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to run a secretariat function for the new Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) for Ocean Energy. Building upon the successful model developed by the ORJIP for […]

  • MUA calls off industrial action plans for DPWA as liners battle congestion

    21 September 2020
    Human Capital, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) withdrew its industrial action at DP World Australia, according to Shipping Australia Ltd. “Shipping Australia understands that a written undertaking has now been given to the Fair Work Commission that no further notices of industrial action at Port Botany will be submitted before November 1 2020,” the shipowner association […]

  • Stockholm Norvik Port readies for opening

    10 April 2020
    Automation, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics, Technology

    Stockholm Norvik Port is preparing for its debut scheduled to take place later this year.

  • Shenzhen, Long Beach to collaborate on decarbonizing ocean trade, new green shipping corridors

    24 September 2024
    Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Long Beach, Shenzhen Port Group, Hutchison Ports YANTIAN, South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) and the North American Representative Office of Shenzhen, have signed a memorandum of cooperation to collaborate on decarbonizing ocean trade and inspire other similar efforts to build a green maritime economy around the Pacific Rim.

  • Barrow Island might be declared Port of Convenience

    13 August 2014

    International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) President Paddy Crumlin has said that Barrow Island could be declared a Port of Convenience unless Chevron tempers its union-busting efforts in Australia’s offshore oil and gas sector. Chevron’s Gorgon LNG project has blown out from US$37 billion to US$54 billion due to the company’s ongoing mismanagement of the project. But […]

  • Peru: APM Terminals Signs 30-Year Callao Terminal Concession

    13 May 2011

    The new 30-year concession contract for the development and operation of Terminal Muelle Norte at the Port of Callao was signed today by Peruvian President Alan Garcia and representatives of APM Terminals and local partner Central Portuária S.A.C. in the Presidential Palace in Peru’s Capital City of Lima. “Our vision is to transform Terminal Muelle Norte into a […]

  • Rotterdam to give a boost to shore power at port

    21 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Transition, Vision

    The Port of Rotterdam Authority and the municipality of Rotterdam are exploring possibilities of installing more shore-based power at the port’s terminals to reduce CO2 emissions and air pollution.

  • Freeport East could play a key role in hydrogen-enabled shipping corridors, study shows

    20 September 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Research & Development

    Freeport East, one of eight new Freeports in England covering an area within roughly 45 kilometers of the ports of Felixstowe and Harwich, holds the potential to become a key player in the development of hydrogen-enabled green shipping corridors as well as decarbonization of transport, a new study suggests. The study published on September 12, […]

  • Spain: Port of Barcelona to Invest EUR 193 Million in Development

    26 April 2012

    The Port of Barcelona closed the financial year with operating profits of 60 million euros and investments of 105.4 million euros, mainly in new infrastructure such as the construction of the Prat Wharf, the enlargement of the South Quay, the new building at the Border Inspection Post (BIP) and repairing and improving breakwaters and quays. […]