Konecranes has received a major order from Gulftainer USA Wilmington LLC. The order is for nine all-electric Konecranes Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes and three Konecranes Liftace Reachstackers.

Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation, has announced that North Carolina Ports has selected the Navis N4 terminal operating system (TOS) to power its Wilmington and Morehead City port facilities and its inland terminal in Charlotte, NC, United States. 

Contship Italia S.p.A. has entered into negotiations with MSC for the sale of its 50% shares in CSM Italia Gate S.p.A, the company that controls MCT - Medcenter Container Terminal S.p.A. MCT is the concessionaire of the container terminal activities in the port of Gioia Tauro where MSC is already a partner and the main customer.

Cargo Community System (CCS) provider MGI and the Marseille Fos port authority have won the Digital Transformation Awards logistics category in recognition of the new generation system Ci5.

The Northwest Seaport Alliance's February container volumes reached 269,199 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a 4.1 percent decrease from last year. Despite the dip, the year-to-date container volumes are up 10.9 percent, with imports and exports growing 10.1 percent and 13.4 percent respectively.

Puertos y Logistica S.A. Group (Pulogsa), which will soon be majority-owned by DP World, has now received a total of seven reachstackers and one empty container handler from Konecranes for its two ports: Puerto Central, in San Antonio, Chile's main port at the geographical centre of the country; and Puerto Lirquén, a little further to the south on the western South American coastline.

South Carolina Ports Authority reported the strongest February container volume in its history and nearly 12 percent fiscal year-over-year growth.

The Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) set a new port record with the arrival of the ZIM vessel Cape Sounio, the largest container ship to ever call Jacksonville. The 11,000-TEU (container) vessel is operated by ZIM on a service offered by the 2M alliance. The 2M alliance is comprised of Maersk, MSC, Hamburg Süd and strategic partners HMM and ZIM.

The British International Freight Association (BIFA), the trade association for UK freight forwarding and logistics companies, is warning its members about the cost of containers abandoned overseas for which they may be liable and how to implement safeguards to prevent this situation occurring.

The potential of DP World investing in new infrastructure in Kazakhstan's ports and logistics sectors was the focus of recent discussions between global trade enabler DP World's Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Kazakhstan's Prime Minister H.E. Askar Mamin in Astana.

Port infrastructure challenges for the new Brazilian government and how U.S. companies can benefit

A general view on the Brazilian economy and infrastructure market and how the liberal agenda of the new Brazilian government can lead to investments infrastructure
as well as a glimpse of concessions to come and how foreign investors could benefit.

The above topic will be presented by Rodrigo Paiva, Lead Infrastructure
Economist, Nigel Nixon & Partners at

PORT & TERMINAL TECHNOLOGY USA 2019 CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

26th & 27th MARCH 2019