Port of Tyne productivity to increase by 25 per cent with investment in a new gantry crane. Standing at 70m the new crane will be operational in August 2013 and will have an outreach of 37m and will mainly handle containers.
India’s Pipavav Port handles a six per cent increase in marine exports. The installation of a modern power supply system for reefer containers at Vallarpadam, Kochi, has helped fuel the increase together with an additional storage facility at the Q-9 berth in the Ernakulam Wharf
DP World chairman welcomes MSC La Spezia to the new 1 million TEU Terminal 2 expansion at Jebel Ali Port in the UAE. Together with Container Terminal 3, which is under construction, Jebel Ali Port will reach 19 million TEU capacity by 2014 and will be able to handle ten of the giant new generation vessels at the same time – the only port in the region able to do so.
Triple E will be 35 per cent more fuel efficient than standard 13,100 TEU vessels and the first one is due to sail out of the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering yard in Okpo, South Korea, on 2nd July 2013.
Dredging work on Liverpool2, has begun with more than one million cubic meters of material being dredged to clear a deep-water channel at the UK’s Port of Liverpool.
The DFDS-owned Sirena Seaways could be back in service next week after hitting a quay while docking.
Confidence levels in the shipping industry were at their highest level for two and a half years in the three months ended May 2013.
Maersk Lines has been steadily increasing its use of Malaysia since 2001; offering the port as storage is the next step forward.
The Port of Duisburg in Germany, Europe’s largest inland port, posted record container handling figures during the 2011 calendar year. Container volumes grew by 10 percent over the previous year to 2.5 million TEU.
Hapag Lloyd, the world’s fourth largest ocean carrier, bucked an industry-wide trend in 2011 by becoming one of the few shipping lines to end the year in profit.
