Ports & terminals

Quinn Cement and Warrenpoint Harbour Authority have announced the opening of a new cement export hub at Warrenpoint Harbour, Co. Down.

Despite the small decline in throughouput, the Port Authority financial results have been healthy and stable.

ABP’s Port of King’s Lynn has successfully completed its first import of high quality soya bean meal on behalf of Glencore Agriculture UK.

Hauts-de-France is poised to become the logistics hub of North-Western Europe.

Flood defences at the Port of Immingham are set to receive and investment boost of £5 million.

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.