News Ports

OOCL and Long Beach finalize deal for 40-year lease of Middle Harbor terminal

05 Apr 2012 - Cargo volumes and throughput, Containers, Port Planning, Ports, Los Angeles / Long Beach

OOCL, the Hong Kong-based shipping company, held a signing ceremony with the Port of Long Beach (POLB) this week for the 40-year US$4.6 billion lease of the Middle Harbor container terminal at the Southern California port.
ADPC receives final delivery of STS cranes at flagship port

03 Apr 2012 - Ports, Khalifa Port, Terminal Handling, Ship-to-Shore Quay Cranes

The Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) has received its second and final batch of Super Post Panamax Ship-to-Shore (STS) container cranes to be used at the new Khalifa Port.
Eurotunnel express interest in French Channel ports

02 Apr 2012 - Port Planning, Ports, Dunkirk, Shipping

Eurotunnel Chief Jacques Gounon has this week told of the group’s plans to team up with the Côte d’Opale Chamber of Commerce’s in its bid to take over operational responsibilities at the ports of Calais and Boulogne.
Video: Port of Oakland welcomes the MSC Fabiola - the largest vessel to ever call North America

29 Mar 2012 - Ports, Los Angeles / Long Beach, PTI Multimedia, Shipping, MSC

History was made at the Port of Oakland last week: the welcoming of the largest containership to ever call a North America seaport.
Liebherr to deliver three RMG cranes to Felixstowe’s new rail terminal

20 Mar 2012 - Ports, Felixstowe, Terminal Handling, Rubber-Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGs)

Liebherr Container Cranes has announced that it has received an order for the supply of three Rail Mounted Gantry (RMG) cranes to the New North Rail Terminal in the Port of Felixstowe.
APM Terminals’ Maasvlakte II to pioneer container automation technology

19 Mar 2012 - Cargo volumes and throughput, Containers, Ports, Rotterdam, Terminal Handling, Automation Systems

Maasvlakte II, APM Terminals’ new container terminal in the Port of Rotterdam, is set to become the world’s first terminal to be equipped with Lift Automated Guided Vehicles (Lift AGVs) by Demag Cranes subsidiary, Gottwald Port Technology.
Global Ports announces managerial changes at Russian terminals

17 Mar 2012 - Going Places, Port Planning, Ports, St Petersburg

Global Ports Investments PLC has announced that it has made two managerial changes at its Russian terminals.
Felixstowe Port on track with new North Rail Terminal

15 Mar 2012 - Port Planning, Ports, Felixstowe

The Port of Felixstowe held a ground-breaking ceremony yesterday to mark the formal commencement of the new North Rail Terminal project.
Grand Alliance switches northwest operations from Seattle to Tacoma

12 Mar 2012 - Ports, Tacoma, Shipping

The Grand Alliance, the shipping consortium comprised of Hapag-Lloyd, NYK, and OOCL, has announced that it intends to divert its operations from Seattle Port’s Terminal 18 to the Port of Tacoma’s Washington United Terminals when their contract expires later this year.
APM Terminals wins safety award for fifth consecutive year

09 Mar 2012 - Going Places, Ports, Los Angeles / Long Beach

For the fifth consecutive year APM Terminals Pier 400 Los Angeles was named winner of both the Category A Southern California Area Container Terminal Safety Award, and the Coast Award for the safest terminal on the Pacific Coast by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).
Felixstowe welcomes launch of new Transatlantic service

07 Mar 2012 - Ports, Felixstowe, Shipping

The Port of Felixstowe, Britain’s largest container port, celebrated the start of a new Transatlantic service earlier this week.
Long Beach Commission gives green light to $4.6 billion Middle Harbor lease

05 Mar 2012 - Port Planning, Ports, Los Angeles / Long Beach

The Long Beach Harbor Commission gave its initial approval to an ordinance last week for Orient Overseas Container Line's (OOCL) 40-year US$4.6 billion lease of the Middle Harbor terminal.
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