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With a load of 19,038 TEU, the Mumbai Maersk sets a world record for highest-ever load and surpasses the mythical 19,000-mark for the very first time - not only for a Maersk vessel, but any vessel in the world.
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The Hyster Rhine Tour, which showcased Hyster equipment and related solutions in real inland terminal applications along the River Rhine, has concluded. The Rhine Tour welcomed hundreds of guests over four events in four countries.
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The Port of Long Beach is continuing to outperform 2023 clean air goals for diesel particles and sulfur oxides, even while cargo volumes have jumped to record levels, according to a comprehensive study of Port-related air pollution emissions.
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From September, ZIM India-Med Express Line (IMX) will have a new rotation, with significantly faster transit time, making the fastest on the trade.
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Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has received an order from China Railway Ürümqi Group Co., Ltd to supply a total of 10 reachstackers. This order has been booked into Cargotec's second quarter 2018 order intake, with delivery scheduled to take place in the thi...
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West Calcasieu Port, located on the busiest section of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway between Houston and New Orleans has completed dredging operations in the port's west barge basin. Full operations have been resumed.
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During the first six months of this year, container volumes at the Port of Gothenburg rose by 19 per cent, from 318,000 to 378,000 TEUs. The number of cars and intra-European ro-ro* units shipped increased by ten and four per cent respectively, whilst the...
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In the first half of 2018 the Port of Hamburg achieved total throughput of 66.5 million tons representing a moderate downturn of 4.9 percent, with the downward trend slowing in the second quarter. General cargo throughput at 45.5 million tons (down 2.2 pe...
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The Department for Transport (DfT) has published its Annual UK Port Freight statistics for 2017 which show that overall total freight tonnages handled by UK ports were stable, totalling 482mt. The figures which aggregate all UK major and minor port tonnag...
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Gov. Nathan Deal, Georgia state officials and more than 350 business and civic leaders were on hand on August 22 to officially open the Appalachian Regional Port (ARP) in Northwest Georgia.
"The Appalachian Regional Port is a powerful new gateway to the ...
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Port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) continues to touch the lives of communities within its Papua New Guinea operations as wholly-owned subsidiary Motukea International Terminal (MIT) donated school equipment to the Baruni...
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The Mississippi River Ship Channel could be the first port complex on the Gulf Coast to reach a depth of 50 feet now that the Director's Report has been signed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Elected officials and industry leaders have long worked to i...
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The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has approved a proposal by Toyota Logistics Services to redevelop its facility at Pier B and build a renewable energy fuel-cell power plant and hydrogen fuelling station.
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The Northwest Seaport Alliance recorded its best July import volumes since 2010 at 139,567 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), an 18.3 percent increase compared to the same month a year ago. At 122,571 TEUs, export volumes also reached their highest leve...
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The Port of Koper operator in Slovenia, Luka Koper d.d., has ordered five electric Konecranes RTG cranes. The cranes will be equipped with cable reels featuring an auto plug-in system. They will be delivered in the summer of 2019. The contract was signed ...
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Hapag-Lloyd is continuing to focus on the growing market in East Africa. With annual growth rates of approximately six percent, the region tops the list on the African continent. Kenya, in particular, is developing with significantly rising import and exp...
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The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has been awarded a USD2.5 million U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) grant to support the current container-on-barge shuttle service operated by SEACOR AMH between New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Memphis, and to launch a...
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South Carolina Ports Authority announced 200,594 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) handled during the first month of fiscal year 2019, marking the strongest July on record and second-highest monthly container volume in the Port's history.
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The Port of Virginia will be receiving a USD 456,000 grant from the federal government's Marine Highway Program to enhance cargo operations at Richmond Marine Terminal (RMT) and support growing cargo volumes on the port's regular barge service to that ter...
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Krishnapatnam Port Container Terminal (KPCT); a deep draughted container terminal on the east coast of India, announced the commissioning of 5 Electrical Rubber Tyred Gantry cranes (e-RTGC) further bolstering its container handling capacity in the backdro...
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