Ports & terminals

Kamigumi to establish an operating company for the development and operation of a bulk terminal in the Port of Thilawa in Myanmar.

Essar Vizag Terminal will shut down for a week in order to commission a 8000 tph shiploader, which is part of the port’s plan to upgrade the iron ore handling capacity.

Vinalines has requested to work with Rent A Port of the Belgian Ackermans & Van Haaren Group to develop a grain port in Hai Phong, Vietnam.

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd appoints Kotug Australia Pty Ltd as towage services operator for the Port of Port Hedland.

Rigas universalais terminals Ltd (RUT) introduces a new technology to its operations: containerised dry bulk handling.

Brazilian miner Vale signs a US$2.73 billion funding agreement to finance the Nacala Logistics Corridor.

The Port of Montreal is joining forces with Soverdi and Alliance forêt urbaine to extend the canopy of greenery on its lands.

National Ports, in partnership with thyssenkrupp Industrial Solution, has developed a self-unloading super shallow draft bulk carrier that could transform transhipping in shallow water ports.

ABP’s Port of Garston call on Carrylift to provide large capacity, short-term rental trucks while longer term specialist handling solutions for fertilizer are sourced.

Oldendorff Carrier’s Babycape ‘Richard Oldendorff’ arrives at the Go Gia buoys in South Vietnam with the largest ever bulk cargo to be discharged in Vietnam.

Iron Road signs MoU with Eyre Peninsula Co-operative Bulk Handling to create a grains export business in South Australia.

The British Ports Association praises European PORTOPIA port performance project.

AMSteel has signed an agreement with King Abdullah Port to operate the first bulk and general cargo terminal berth at the port.

Hutchison Ports celebrates the start of terminal operations at Saqr Port, in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

At the port of Gijón, European Bulk Handling Installation puts a Konecranes Gottwald Model 8 portal harbour crane into service.