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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

COVID-19 is prompting a rethink of supply strategies. Increased transshipment activity is expectedbut, as Andrew Penfold confirms, margins will be slim and financing new capacity challenging.

14th August 2020

COVID-19: ANY CLEARER YET?

14th August 2020

CRUISE GREENPORT

CRUISE GREENPORT

Major investment has been confirmed for a new cruise terminal at a UK port that will incorporate solar power and shore power.

14th August 2020

Funding for green cruise terminal

14th August 2020

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

Plans are in place to develop an environmentally friendly container terminal in the south east of the US.

13th August 2020

Eco container terminal planned for US

13th August 2020

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Plans are in place to develop an environmentally friendly container terminal in the south east of the US.

13th August 2020

Eco container terminal planned for US

13th August 2020

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

Eesti Gaas has started bunkering LNG in a Finnish port with the successful completion of a truck to ship operation.

13th August 2020

Eesti Gaas begins bunkering at Finnish port

13th August 2020

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

A US port operator has taken delivery of five new KoneCranes electric Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes to strengthen operational efficiency and increase overall productivity as part of a modernisation project.

12th August 2020

Electric RTGs aid modernisation project

12th August 2020

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

A simple rule has been identified to allow operators to reduce fuel wastage and emissions caused by a build up of hull fouling.

11th August 2020

Optimising the anti fouling process

11th August 2020

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Following successful testing, the world’s first zero-emissions top handlers are now being used in daily operations at the Port of Los Angeles.

11th August 2020

Zero-emissions top handler test success

11th August 2020

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Development consent has been granted for a project that will enable Auckland to accommodate larger container ships.

11th August 2020

Auckland project facilitates larger ships

11th August 2020

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

The industry’s first sit-down counterbalanced 15,500 to 19,000lb capacity lift truck with integrated 350-volt lithium-ion power has been launched.

10th August 2020

Emissions free lithium-ion lift truck launches

10th August 2020

EUROPE

EUROPE

Two of the UK’s largest port businesses have announced a joint bid for a freeport on the River Thames to attract new investment to the UK.

10th August 2020

Joint bid for Thames freeport

10th August 2020

EUROPE

EUROPE

A tender for the expansion of infrastructure at a Portuguese container terminal has been launched.

10th August 2020

Portuguese terminal tender launches

10th August 2020

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Damen has been awarded a contract by the Port of Antwerp to build two newbuild tugs with an emphasis on sustainability and efficiency.

7th August 2020

Cleaner tugs for the Port of Antwerp

7th August 2020

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Busan Port Authority is building a logistics warehouse at the Port of Rotterdam which should help make its freight forwarding operations more sustainable.

6th August 2020

Newbuild sustainable logistics warehouse

6th August 2020

ASIA

ASIA

A seaport with a capacity of 12.5m tonnes will be constructed in Russia’s Kalmykia region, near the city of Lagan.

6th August 2020

New Russian port connects Asia to Europe

6th August 2020

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed with to bring LNG to a terminal and infrastructure project underway in India’s Bay of Bengal.

5th August 2020

LNG solution for India’s shallow draft ports

5th August 2020

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

The Port of Beirut has reportedly been almost totally destroyed in a chemical explosion.

5th August 2020

Chemical explosion near destroys Lebanese port

5th August 2020

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

The European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) will allocate around €27m to the launch of two LNG bunkering projects in Spain.

4th August 2020

EU financing for LNG projects in Spain

4th August 2020

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

A major UK port owner and operator has successfully embedded drone technology into its asset management practices and policies, following an 18-month programme.

4th August 2020

UK port operator adopts drone technology

4th August 2020

CRUISE GREENPORT

CRUISE GREENPORT

The EU will provide €21.9m funding for a project which aims to cut over 90% of the air pollution that cruise liners and ro-ro ships produce at a European port.

3rd August 2020

EU funding for clean air project

3rd August 2020

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

A German port is being backed as a future hydrogen hub as the German government gears up to implement a new national hydrogen strategy.

3rd August 2020

German port could be hydrogen hub

3rd August 2020

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Container managers in Brazil expected the CMA CGM extra-loader, APL Paris to call in Santos,but instead it went to Itajaí. Rob Ward explains.

3rd August 2020

LARGER THAN THE EIFFEL TOWER

3rd August 2020

BULK HANDLING

BULK HANDLING

The pace of container port capacity expansion is forecast to contract at least 40% over the next five years in the wake of the COVID-19 induced slowdown in port throughput, according to…

3rd August 2020

40% drop in container port capacity expansion

3rd August 2020