Dry bulk news updates

Special ship markets in recovery and real progress on maritime digitalisation brought a feelgood finale to Europort 2019.

The structure and technics at Kiel’s shunting station in Meimersdorf have been enhanced in such a way that freight trains with an effective length of 740 m (previously 535 m) can enter and exit the station as of now.

The project is for the transportation of fresh urea from granulation to bagging silos or to urea bulk storage.

In 3Q19, Northport Limited ordered an eco-efficient Konecranes Gottwald Model 6 Mobile Harbor Crane for their deep-water facility at Marsden Point, on the north island of New Zealand.

US$2 492 595 in financial assistance will be given to the Trois-Rivie`res Port Authority for the development of an outdoor storage space, multi-purpose shed and oversized equipment warehouse.

Diana Shipping Inc. has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Agreement to sell the 2005-built vessel ‘Clio’ to an unaffiliated third party.

BHP aims to decide early next year who has won a tender for LNG-fuelled transport to ship up to 27 million t, or about 10% of its iron ore to cut emissions by around a quarter, a Senior Executive said.

Adani Mining’s Carmichael project has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Decmil to deliver more jobs and economic activity for Rockhampton and regional Queensland.

Growers who deliver to T-Ports Lock and Lucky Bay sites will be able to offer their grain at the price they want to buyers through clear grain exchange.

Loader crane market landscape global revenue is set to expand at 4.6% through 2026.

The launch of Europort 2019 at the Rotterdam Ahoy saw journalist Geert Maarse bring four of the leading owners in Europe’s special ship segments to grips with the key challenges facing the maritime industry.

The Minerals Council of Australia has congratulated all the parties to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement on concluding negotiations overnight.

The newest slip ring motor is implemented in a wide range of applications including, but not limited to, mills, crushers, conveyors and fans.

Gateway Terminal, Connecticut, US, has announced that it has received expanded foreign trade zone (FTZ) subzone approval from the Foreign-Trade Zones Board of the US Department of Commerce.

Oldendorff will provide a full transportation solution to BCPCL, which includes coal transportation from Indonesia or Australia with transhipment in Andaman and Nicobar to the Payra power plant in Bangladesh.

One of Transmin’s latest machines to be delivered will be used in an iron ore export stockyard application where it will be fed by giant front-end loaders depositing 50 t bucket loads into the reclaimer hopper, after which it will be transported at 2500 tph onto a stockyard conveyor.

Sweet has announced its new enclosed belt conveyor.

The outlook for the North American railroads industry has been revised to negative from stable, Moody's Investors Service says in a new report.

The Port of Teignmouth’s stevedoring team has nominated charity Volunteering in Health to receive a £500 donation in support its vital work in the local community.

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. has announced the successful installation and commissioning of three exhaust gas cleaning systems.

Ocean Yield ASA has announced the delivery of the newcastlemax dry bulk vessel ‘Bulk Seoul’.

CM Labs Simulations training simulators, has announced a new operator training solution for mobile harbour cranes (MHCs), part of the Vortex solution suite of port equipment simulators.

Pietro de Michieli, Managing Director at AUMUND, Germany, has taken over the Chair for Equipment Design and Infrastructure at PEMA Port Equipment Manufacturers Association, UK.

A new open chute high lift bin tipper from Flexicon hydraulically raises and dumps mobile bins into a hopper that feeds an integral flexible screw conveyor operating under loss of weight control.