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In his monthly report at the April 26 Port Commission meeting, Port of Houston Authority Chief Executive Officer Alec G Dreyer said March was strong in all commodity categories, calling it the best month since he joined the Port Authority in September 200...
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The Port of Liverpool's newest pilot boat today has officially joined the Port's fleet The Skua, which follows the tradition of Liverpool's pilot craft being named after seabirds, was given a champagne welcome by Mrs Patricia Hodgson, wife of Peel Ports M...
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Cargotec has received a further order from Santos Brasil S/A for 12 Kalmar E-One2 rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes. The agreement confirms one of South America's leading container terminal operators as the biggest customer of Kalmar E-One RTGs worldwide t...
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The Port of Hamilton is well on its way to reaching the goal of becoming the Great Lakes port of choice by 2020. An ambitious 2008 strategic plan developed by the Hamilton Port Authority (HPA) targeted $500 million in infrastructure investments and improv...
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Cargotec recently unveiled its new DCG90-180 range of Kalmar lift trucks - ushering in the new 'G' generation of counterbalance equipment. This new range of forklift trucks (which were showcased at at CeMAT 2011) have capacities ranging from 9-18 to...
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A large proportion of Swedish imports and exports pass through the Port of Gothenburg. There has been a very noticeable recovery in the economy during the first quarter of the year. Container traffic has broken all records and car exports within Europeare...
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Gujarat Pipavav Port Limited, APM Terminals Pipavav, today announced its financial results for the first quarter 2011. Port Pipavav has registered an increase in EBITDA margins and good cost savings during the quarter, even after including the excha...
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Today, Terex Industrial Holding AG, a subsidiary of Terex Corporation, Westport/Connecticut (USA), announced that it is planning to make a cash public tender offer to the shareholders of Demag Cranes AG for all outstanding shares of the company against a ...
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For the first quarter, throughput in the port of Rotterdam was at more or less exactly the same level as the same period last year: 107 million tonnes. In comparison with last year's strong and broad growth, the picture is now more differentiated. Agribul...
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The Port of New Orleans received two new container gantry cranes today to be installed at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal. The cranes completed their 53-day, 15,700-mile journey from South Korea just before noon aboard the M/V Tai An Kou. Korea Log...
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ICTSI opens CMS office. International Container Terminal Services, Inc. recently inaugurated a two-storey Crane Maintenance Section (CMS) office and Anchorage. Photo shows (left to right) Joselito Feliciano, Engineering Manager, Brian Oakley, Vice Preside...
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Cargotec has introduced new developments that allow shipboard systems for gravity self-unloading dry bulk cargoes to deliver greater capacity while minimising environmental impact Cargotec has enhanced its MacGregor bulk cargo gravity unloading system wit...
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Essar Ports, the captive port facility of the India-based Ruias Group, is looking at tapping merchant (third-party) cargo to ramp up its volume.?Essar Ports, which is being spun off as a separate entity from Essar Shipping, Ports and Logistics, is expecte...
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Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam, visited Associated British Ports' (ABP) Port of Hull yesterday (28th April 2011). Mr Clegg wanted to see for himself the proposed Green Port Hull site, where ABP and Si...
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The Cochin Port Trust is initiating a master plan for the development of real estate in the Willingdon Island. The draft will be ready for discussion with stakeholders in about 15 weeks. Based on the feedback, a final draft will be ready for implementatio...
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Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd recently secured an order for the supply of two Ship-to-Shore Container Cranes to DP World Aden, Yemen. The Cranes will be delivered during the third Quarter of 2011. This is the second recent order for Yemen, the...
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Kongsberg Maritime has been selected to supply eight bridge Polaris Ship's Bridge Simulators to Vlaamse Dienst Voor Arbeidsbemiddeling en Beroepsopleiding (VDAB) in Zeebrugge, Belgium. As the public employment service of Flanders in Belgium, VDAB has chos...
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Terex has received its first major order for Straddle Carriers models NoellSC634E and NoellSC644E equipped with a new EU stage IIIB / US EPA Tier 4i compliant powertrain. The order, which comes from a major terminal operator, calls for a double-digit flee...
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Visits by cruise ships to Gothenburg continue to break new records. This year 51 vessels will visit the city. On board will be 64,000 passengers eager to discover the friendly city of Gothenburg. Last year, which was also a record-breaking year, 41 cruise...
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Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. recently received an order to deliver three Rubber Tyre Gantry Cranes to Termont Montreal Inc., Canada. The RTGs are of 16 wheel configuration, stack one over five containers high and span six containers plus a truck lane. T...
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