Ports & terminals

PD Ports (UK) has established a new chartered management degree apprenticeship with Teesside University to shape and develop the group’s future leaders.

The Port of Tyne has appointed Matt Beeton as its new CEO, to become effective in the new year.

The Smart Port North East Testbed will bring together digital and industry experts, academia and regional authorities, as well as northeast UK ports to test satellite-based solutions to enable them to become more ‘intelligent’.

The services include mounting, chocking and onsite machining services, alignment services and vibration measurements, as well as geometric and strain gauge alignment measurements.

The navigation channels on Port Qasim area offer ample opportunities for establishment of new terminals to provide facilities to international cargo handlings.

The company is one of the founding members of the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network – which is a global business network working towards the vision of a maritime industry free of corruption that enables fair trade to the benefit of society at large.

Starting in 2019, ships participating in the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) may apply for up to 8% discount on tonnage fees in the harbours of the Port of Tallinn, Estonia.

Fraser Grain Terminal in Vancouver, Canada, will become a 50-50 joint venture between GrainsConnect Canada and Parrish & Heimbecker.

On 1 December, the deepwater terminal of Port Bronka at the big port of St Petersburg opened its full bonded area.

The carrousel gives breakbulk and heavy cargo companies space for further growth in Rotterdam’s Waalhaven.

The tunnel will convey up to 20 million tpy of polyhalite ore from the company’s new underground mine near Whitby in the UK.

According to a recent report, sea ports and terminals are predicted to play a key role in the development of the global bulk material handling systems market.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore is preparing the Port of Singapore and Singapore-registered ships for the IMO 0.5% fuel global limit for sulfur in fuel oil used onboard ships, effective from 1 January 2020.

Last Tuesday, Gothenburg Port Authority announced it had started the recruitment process for a new CEO to take over from Magnus Karestedt when he retires from the role in June next year.

OCRIM will supply a new belt conveyor to ONT/BEDESCHI for grain handling at the Yanbu Port.