| August 13, 2021 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
The port of Kiel achieved significant volume growth in the cargo sector in the first half of the year. In the period from the beginning of January to the end of June, a total of 8.25 percent more goods were handled than in the reference period.
| August 13, 2021 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
A Covid outbreak that has partially shut one of the world’s busiest container ports is heightening concerns that the rapid spread of the delta variant will lead to a repeat of last year’s shipping nightmares.
| August 12, 2021 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech | Project / Heavy Lift | Maritime Project
Damen Shipyards Group has signed a contract with Fairplay Towage Polska for the delivery of a Shoalbuster 2711 ICE. The company will use the versatile vessel to perform diverse operations, including in the offshore wind industry, in the Baltic and North seas. Damen is building the vessel in Poland.
| August 12, 2021 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
Port Manatee is receiving more than $1 million in federal grant funding to bolster protection against cyberthreats, upgrade the port’s wireless security network and complete a perimeter fencing project.
| August 12, 2021 | Energy | Alternative | Ports & Terminals
| August 12, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | Ports & Terminals
| August 12, 2021 | Energy | Ports & Terminals
On August 7, 2021, the Arctic shuttle tanker Timofey Guzhenko discharged at the port of Murmansk the milestone 80-millionth tonne of crude oil shipped from the Varandey oil terminal operated by LUKOIL.
| August 12, 2021 | Intermodal | Rail | Ports & Terminals
| August 11, 2021 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech
Konecranes has won an order for 6 Konecranes Noell Rubber-Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes from Gemadept-Terminal Link CaiMep Terminal JSC (“Gemalink”) in Vietnam. The order, which was booked in June 2021, will be handed over to Gemalink by July 2022.
| August 11, 2021 | Ports & Terminals
| August 10, 2021 | Intermodal | Ports & Terminals | Trucking
| August 10, 2021 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech
| August 10, 2021 | Intermodal | Ports & Terminals | Trucking
The Port of Corpus Christi is expressing its full support for an amendment by the U.S. Senate to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package that expands congressional designation of Interstate 14 on a corridor across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
| August 09, 2021 | Ports & Terminals
Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT), International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (ICTSI) subsidiary operating at the Port of Umm Qasr in Iraq, recently handled its three millionth TEU.
| August 09, 2021 | Ports & Terminals
South Carolina Ports had a strong start to fiscal year 2022 with its highest July on record for containers moving through the Port of Charleston.
| August 09, 2021 | Ports & Terminals
Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT) in Panama – part of SSA Marine – is one of the most important terminals in Latin America in the global cargo movement logistic system. MIT provides connectivity to over 125 countries through its transhipment operations. SSA HQ Seattle in the USA involved TBA Group to perform a “Quick Scan” at MIT in March 2020 to investigate opportunities to further improve operational processes and efficiency at their RTG/ ARTG container terminal. One of the areas for improvement discovered through the Quick Scan, concerned the yard strategy and the equipment deployment in the yard.
| August 09, 2021 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech
A revolutionary seismic isolation system—provided by Casper, Phillips & Associates Inc. (CPA)—has been installed on two quayside container cranes for the first time this year.
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