Ports & terminals

The increase is largely due to an increase in the shipment of liquid and dry bulk cargo.

Port of Ghent, Belgium, records 2016 as the best year ever with seaborne cargo traffic registering a record of 29.1 million t.

2016 was the third best year on record for cargo handling in the history of the port.

Gleadell Agriculture has completed loading the MV Rig with 3000 t of Group 1 milling wheat at the Port of Dover, in the UK, destined for ADM’s flour mill in Leith.

Tenova TAKRAF recently completed the delivery of a continuous ship unloader to handle iron ore at the Port of Pecem, Brazil.

The selection process has narrowed the list of potential candidates down to three.

The trench is a new east-west rail entrance that eliminates conflicts with north-south rail traffic by bringing trains under the 1908 Columbia River railroad bridge.

Terex completes the sale of its Material Handling and Ports Solutions business to Konecranes.

London Arbitration Tribunal rules a 20-year contract between Corporacion Navios S.A. and Vale International S.A. for the iron ore port under construction to be in full force and effect. 

Jacques Vandermeiren is the new Chief Executive Officer and President of the Executive Committee of Antwerp Port Authority, effective 1 January 2017.

The Port of Antwerp closed 2016 with an expected record volume of more than 214 million t of handled freight.

Vanessa Baugh has been elected to a one-year term as chairwoman of the governing board of Port Manatee and two new commissioners have been selected as officers.

The ports of Houston and Antwerp are committed to continuing their working together to build the trans-Atlantic supply chain of the future.

Navis receives the “Best Technology Innovation of the Year Award,” at the recent Terminal Operator Excellence Awards ceremony held in Dubai.

AIM Exploration has confirmed that it could ship anthracite from the port of Salaverry, Peru, into the international markets.