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In recent years, Hamburg/Germany has become an international hotspot for the cruise industry. This September the north German port city will bundle its cruise-themed events: based on the motto ‘Hamburg welcomes you on board’, both the general public and professionals from the cruise sector are invited to join the ten-day programme of events in...

BMT Asia Pacific (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has been appointed Owners Engineer and lead design consultant by Endeavour Energy for the development of the LNG storage and regasification facility, a part of the Ghana 1000 Gas to Power Project and Africa’s first LNG import terminal. Endeavour is co-leading development with General Electric,...

A new container service for Swedish imports and exports has commenced between Gothenburg and Germany. The first ship is expected to call at Gothenburg on June 9. The German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd is launching its second service in Gothenburg. Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s largest liner shipping companies and its fleet covers...

The Terminal de Contenidors de Barcelona (Barcelona Container Terminal or TCB), managed by Grup TCB, has completed the heightening its three Super Post Panamax cranes to service state-of-the-art ships with up to 10 levels of dry-van containers on deck or nine levels of high-cube containers. TCB has increased the height of the three cranes...

Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has carried the momentum from its strong Q4 2014 sales of Terex Gottwald harbour cranes into 2015. From January to March, TPS sold 21 machines including two Terex Gottwald floating cranes for professional mid-stream bulk handling. The orders came from both new and existing customers. Model 6 harbour cranes are...

APM Terminals Itajaí set a new productivity record by completing 125 Berth Moves per Hour (BMPH) on April 26th while working the 8,600TEU capacity Maersk Lamanai. The vessel, part of the weekly Europe/East Coast of South America Samba Service, docked at 2:00 PM, with the terminal performing 1,106 container moves by the time of...

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Rail freight facilities at the Port of Felixstowe, the Port of Britain, have expanded further with the commissioning of two new Rail Mounted Gantry cranes (RMGs) at the port’s North Rail Terminal. Commenting on the latest developments, Clemence Cheng, Chief Executive Officer of the Port of Felixstowe, said: “The Port of Felixstowe already has greater...

APM Terminals has announced that by the end of 2016 all truck drivers entering its facilities must remain within their trucks. This company-wide project is designed to eliminate one of the top five-high risks areas in terminal operations that have led to injuries. “Potential injuries related to outside drivers, trucks, yard traffic, miscommunication and...

The Norwegian Sea-Cargo Hub in Rotterdam has been officially opened by Rik Pek, General Manager Broekman Logistics, and Ole Saevild, CEO Sea-Cargo. The new Sea-Cargo Hub enables Broekman Logistics to provide the best-possible connections for serving the Scandinavian market. The expansion of the Broekman Logistics terminal at Theemsweg in the port of Rotterdam was...

A new robot will be introduced at the Port of Gothenburg. Its task will be to deploy booms in the event of an oil spill. This new technology will result in more rapid and safer oil spill clearance at the Port of Gothenburg. The Port of Gothenburg is the site of the largest energy...

APM Terminals hosted a celebration attended by The Netherlands’ Monarch King Willem-Alexander, and 500 senior representatives from the global shipping industry and world governments in honor of the official opening of the new APM Terminals Maasvlakte II Rotterdam facility, the world’s most technologically advanced and environmentally sustainable container terminal. APM Terminals CEO Kim Fejfer...

BMT SMART (BMT), the specialist fleet and vessel performance management company of BMT Group, has announced that Singapore-based AMI Maritime has become an accredited service partner. This agreement will provide both organisations with the opportunity to enhance their proposition in helping to optimise shipping operations worldwide. Kenny Zhu, Managing Director of AMI Maritime comments:...

Yellow & Finch Publishers have recently unveiled a brand new Facebook page. Updated with all the latest news from the maritime world, the new page is the perfect location for keeping up-to-date. Feel free to visit the site to take a look at the new development and don’t forget to ‘share’ and ‘like’ the...

In 2015, La Méridionale and the port of Marseille (GPMM) have taken further steps towards their sustainable development by installing shore connection (or cold ironing) technologies in their facilities. The shore connection solutions will reduce the air pollution but also the noise and vibrations of vessels’ generators at the port. The three ships of...

A new competitive and eco-friendly maritime transport concept, the Cargo Ferry project, was presented in Oslo. The result of more than 2 years of work, the concept has been developed as an alternative transport solution for containers that are carried for more than 200km on land. The project was presented on board Nor Line’s...

In the first quarter, goods throughput in Rotterdam was 7.2 percent up on the same period of last year. Dry bulk (particularly ores and coal) fell by 5.1 percent. Container throughput increased substantially, by 5.1 percent in weight and 7.6 percent in TEU. Liquid bulk throughput (particularly crude oil and oil products) grew even...

Safety around Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is a hot topic, now that LNG is more and more becoming the fuel of the future. The results of a recent LNG emergency and incident response study are a big step forward in LNG safety in Europe. The Rhine Port Group hands over the first edition of...

Montecon opts for the first LHM 800 in container handling configuration. This mighty machine comes with massive dimensions for the highly efficient handling of large container vessels. Montecon’s LHM 800 will start operation in 2016. As ever larger vessels are ordered and deployed on main routes, ships originally used for these lanes displace vessel...

The renowned French research vessel, Marion Dufresne II arrived at Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque on 14 March for a project that will extend her life by a further 20 years. The work will span a total of 4 months. On 30 March, the vessel went into dry-dock for a 6-week period, during which the yard...

APM Terminals Mumbai established a new record for Indian ports by handling a total of 2.01 million TEUs during the Fiscal Year of 2014-15, representing the period between April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015. APM Terminals Mumbai is one of three terminals currently operating at Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNP), India’s largest container port,...

The Port of Oostende welcomed the jack up vessel Thor for the first time. The next 3 months the ship Thor will be used to conduct general maintenance on the C-Power wind farm from the Rebo terminal. Since a few weeks, the seasonal maintenance works on the three operational wind farms (C-Power, Belwind and...

Samskip and the VGB – the Dutch Association of wholesalers in Floricultural products – have set up and successfully completed the first rail freight transports of plants by reefer container from the Netherlands to Sweden. The so-called flora container has been developed by Unit45 to enable plants and flowers transport by multimodal rail. With...

Grup TCB announces the acquisition of Terminal Polivalente de Castellón after successful negotiations with the current owners of the terminal, amongst them the majority shareholder Globalvia. The transaction is pending approval by the relevant authorities, which it expects to receive in the next few weeks. TPC manages about 80 percent of TEUs handled at...

The Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA), the global industry body for port equipment and technology, has announced three new member companies: Paceco Corp, Kranunion GmbH & Co and Römer Fördertechnik GmbH. Headquartered in Hayward, California, Paceco Corp is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of container handling machinery for cargo ports. Nearly 40 percent...