Peel Ports is celebrating the start of its £300 million in-river container terminal Liverpool2 project, which will allow post-Panamax vessels of up to 13,500 TEU to call the Port of Liverpool for the first time.
Construction works on a new wharf face for the west pier at the Port of Gulfport, Mississippi, will begin today as the port continues in its restoration efforts after being virtually destroyed by Hurricane Katrina nearly a decade ago.
South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) and Mozambique’s Maputo Ports Development Company (MPDC) have this week agreed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to pave the way for greater collaboration between the two port authorities.
Peru’s Terminales Portuarios Euroandinos has reached an agreement for the delivery of one super post-Panamax ship-to-shore (STS) crane and an additional two rubber-tyred gantry cranes with Liebherr Container Cranes.
The Port of Los Angeles has announced the development of an Energy Management Action Plan (E-MAP) initiative designed to improve energy efficiency at America’s busiest container port, which will include the nation’s largest port energy assessment.
New Zealand container handling operator Port Otago has ordered two diesel electric straddle carriers from Cargotec subsidiary Kalmar for its container facility in Port Chalmers, Dunedin.
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has closed the sale of a 35 percent stake in Terminal Investment Limited (TIL), the world’s sixth largest container terminal operator, to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and a group of its LP Co-Investors.
PSA International (PSA) has established itself as the strategic partner of Fuzhou Port Group (FPG) with the acquisition of a stake in Fujian Jiangyin International Container Terminal (FJCT) in the Port of Fuzhou, China.
Bromma has reported a strong start to the year with a number of major contracts agreed for its ship-to-shore (STS) spreader units.
Klaipeda Port is this month celebrating the completion of dredging works at the port’s navigation channel to shift the port “to a new qualitative level”.
The Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators (SIGTTO) has announced that it has established the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF) – a non-governmental organisation (NGO) to help enhance the safety and best practices in the use of LNG as a marine fuel.
UK Chancellor George Osborne has announced a £35 million grant from the Government’s Regional Growth Fund towards the dredging of the approach channel in the Mersey Estuary.
