Ports & terminals

The Port of Vancouver USA Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 to hire interim CEO Julianna Marler as the port’s permanent CEO and Executive Director.

Associated British Ports invested £5.4 million into upgrades at the Port of Ipswich in 2016.

2016 saw an increase in cargo handling and ships calling at the port.

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions forms partnership with National Ports to make the operation of bulk carriers and materials handling equipment more efficient and environmentally friendly in shallow water ports globally.

Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) has announced that as of January 2017, it has started to upgrade their facilities in the Waalhaven, Rotterdam.

The Port of Antwerp reports that its dry bulk volume contracted by 9.1% in 2016.

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.