Author: Importer

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

A top shipping line executive questioned whether 22,000 teu ships are “really the right way to go” at TOC Asia’s Container Supply Chain Conference.

29th April 2019

Logic of mega-containerships questioned

29th April 2019

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

COMMENT: When a senior shipping line executive totalled the number of operational days lost to weather-related shutdowns at Shanghai last year, I’ll admit I was genuinely shocked at the figure he gave,…

29th April 2019

Not-so-fair wind blows for ports

29th April 2019

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Port Strategy (PS) magazine is starting a new undercover rePORTer section in the magazine featuring cutting-edge, but crucially anonymous, opinion from the experts in our wide, top-level audience.

29th April 2019

Going undercover for port insight

29th April 2019

EUROPE

EUROPE

DP World-owned P&O Ports has reportedly withdrawn from its contract to run the container terminal in the Port de Sète in France.

26th April 2019

DP World unit abandons French concession

26th April 2019

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

The Port of Los Angeles has convened a maritime stakeholder working group to discuss the creation of an industry first cross-sector cyber resilience centre to support closer collaboration and help manage cyber…

26th April 2019

LA pioneers cross-sector cyber resilience project

26th April 2019

ASIA GREENPORT

ASIA GREENPORT

Illegal contaminated plastic discovered at Westports Malaysia on Port Klang will be sent back to its country of origin and the company which smuggled it charged.

26th April 2019

Malaysia gets tough on plastic at ports

26th April 2019

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Negotiations for an agreement on APM Terminals modernisation plan at the Port of Los Angeles Pier 400 are in progress and being led by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

25th April 2019

Slow progress for LA automation negotiations

25th April 2019

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Meritor has been contracted to supply all-electric drivetrain systems for 38 terminal tractors to be used at the ports of Long Beach and Oakland.

25th April 2019

Eco trucks contract for Californian ports

25th April 2019

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Spain’s Port of Huelva has renewed EcoPorts’ environmental management standard (PERS) to reinforce its commitment to protecting the environment after obtaining it for the first time in 2016.

24th April 2019

Port of Huelva renews EcoPorts standard

24th April 2019

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

The first of 10 fuel cell electric heavy-duty trucks jointly developed by Toyota and Kenworth to lower emissions has been revealed ahead of its operation at the ports of Los Angeles and…

24th April 2019

Fuel cell electric truck project progresses

24th April 2019