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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

As shipping gets smarter and more sustainable, the Coastlink conference addresseshow short sea and container feeder shipping can best secure a stronger future.

1st May 2019

A stronger future for short sea shipping

1st May 2019

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has introduced a fully electric version of the Kalmar Empty Container Handler.

1st May 2019

New all-electric equipment unveiled

1st May 2019

AFRICA GREENPORT

AFRICA GREENPORT

Transnet National Ports Authority at the Port of Durban has begun a major clean-up to remove the large volume of waste and vegetation left after the recent heavy rains and flooding in…

1st May 2019

Transnet helps clean up at Durban

1st May 2019

EUROPE

EUROPE

The UK ports industry needs to continue to set itself greater standards and be more imaginative if it is to truly reach its full potential across the upcoming decades, the UK’s Maritime…

30th April 2019

Minister: UK ports need higher standards

30th April 2019

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Kalmar will supply 32 diesel-electric straddle carriers to Italys Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) to help reduce emissions and make the terminal more sustainable.

30th April 2019

Electric straddle carriers for Italy’s MCT

30th April 2019

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

The first cruise ship in the world powered by LNG has undergone bunkering at the Port of Barcelona as it continues to seek sustainable operations.

30th April 2019

LNG cruise ship bunkered at Barcelona

30th April 2019

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The Port of Seattle Commission has further committed to electrification as it outlined its sustainability priorities for 2019.

29th April 2019

Seattle adopts sustainability priorities

29th April 2019

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Cosco’s investment in Greeces Port of Piraeus will play a key part in a drive to establish Greece as a “bridge” between the West and the East, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras…

29th April 2019

Global port links forged at Chinas BRI Forum

29th April 2019

ASIA

ASIA

An investigation is underway at the partially shut Port Haldia following the death of a worker who was forced to jump from a burning crane after a fire broke out.

29th April 2019

Fatal crane fire prompts Kolkata shutdown

29th April 2019

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

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

ALTERNATIVE FUELS GREENPORT

Electric equipment is expected to be used in the Annova LNG Brownsville Project to reduce emissions and lower the overall environmental impact of the project.

23rd April 2019

FERC-approved Annova LNG to go electric

23rd April 2019

AFRICA GREENPORT

AFRICA GREENPORT

South Africa’s Port of Ngqura is helping ensure operational safety and protect the environment as the first port in the world to have a fixed jet pump sand bypass system for dredging.

23rd April 2019

Ngqura dredging system protects environment

23rd April 2019

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Firefighters battled a fierce blaze at a recycling plant at the Port of Stockton on Monday, with their efforts hampered by high winds.

23rd April 2019

Fire rages at Californian port

23rd April 2019

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

COMMENT: Road congestion, and its deleterious environmental impacts, could be driving change in supply chains around New York, writes Barry Parker.

23rd April 2019

NY road congestion brings port benefits

23rd April 2019