Ports & Terminals

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Damen Shipyards Cape Town contracted for CSD 250 for Dredging Africa

AJOT | January 24, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

The contract for the CSD came about after Dredging Africa signed a memorandum of understanding with DSCT at the yard’s first African Dredging Seminar, held in October last year.

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Port Canaveral welcomes first post-panamax vehicle carrier

AJOT | January 24, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

High-capacity MOL’s Brooklands is one of the first of its kind to call on Port Canaveral

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Broward County approves new lease for Horizon Terminal Services

AJOT | January 24, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Terminals

Horizon Terminal Services, LLC is driving more automotive business to Broward County's Port Evergladeswith a new long-term lease on 8.67 acres where the company plans to invest $630,000 for a new auto processing facility that would create a minimum of 25 local direct jobs.

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Port of Baltimore to launch Ro/Ro service to New Zealand and Australia

AJOT | January 23, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

The Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore will begin new roll on/roll off (ro/ro) service to New Zealand and Australia in March. The monthly service on Hoegh Autoliners will commence in Baltimore then include service to the ports of Auckland, Brisbane, Port Kembla, Melbourne and Fremantle.

Port Freeport appoints Public Affairs Manager

Brazil’s Terminal de Contêineres de Paranaguá achieves record productivity of following Navis N4 implementation

AJOT | January 22, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

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Hutchison Ports Thailand receives world’s largest quay cranes at Laem Chabang Port

AJOT | January 22, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

These cranes will play a crucial part of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) project under Thailand 4.0 scheme.

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BEST raises its game

AJOT | January 22, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Terminals

Hutchison Ports BEST terminal in Barcelona has increased its ability to handle the world’s largest container ships by increasing the height of three ship-to-shore gantry cranes at the semi-automated terminal.

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Modulift beams lift steel coils at Argentine Port

AJOT | January 22, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

The solution was devised by Rosario-based Ortiz Fischer, which designed a rig for loading finished steel product to an undisclosed logistics company.

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Damen signs contract with Canada’s Group Ocean for two Modular Multi Cats

AJOT | January 22, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

The vessels, which are made of standard, container sized units for easy transportation anywhere in the world, will serve as dredging support vessels on an oil sands project in the north of Canada.

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Port of Antwerp scores 5th record year in a row

AJOT | January 22, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

The port of Antwerp has achieved a record freight volume for the fifth straight year in a row. In 2017 the port handled 223,606,610 tonnes of freight, an increase of 4.4% compared with the previous year.

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GPA surpasses 4M TEUs

AJOT | January 22, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

The Port of Savannah handled more than 4 million twenty-foot equivalent container units in 2017 - an increase of 11 percent and the port’s highest annual volume ever.