Ports & terminals

Steve Crosland has been appointed as a Non-executive Director of the Port of Tyne, one of the UK's major ports in North East England.

An “extreme weather event” has damaged the coal shiploader at Queensland Bulk Terminal at Port of Brisbane, preventing the terminal from loading ships for several weeks.

The expansion of Trans Cargo Terminal SRL at the Giurgiulesti International Free Port in Moldova has been completed.

SEA-Invest places an order with SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd UK for an Eco Hopper destined for operation in the Ivory Coast.

The future of UK dry bulk terminals hangs in the balance on the back of reduced coal and iron ore imports.

Port Corpus Christi is the newest participant in Green Marine.

Khorgos Gateway Dry Port in Kazakhstan is live with Navis’ industry leading N4 terminal operating system in place in preparation for major transcontinental trade route development.

Terex Port Solutions expands its presence in Spain with four new Terex® Gottwald Mobile harbour cranes to handle grain, cereals and copper concentrate for Ership S.A.

Ken Lousberg, the current President of Terex Cranes, is leaving the company and Steve Filipov will replace him as President, effective immediately.

SEA/LNG, which promotes the use of LNG as a marine fuel, has welcomed an IMO decision to introduce a global sulfur cap on marine fuels in 2020.

The Inland Waterways Authority of India has received commitments to transport 5.92 million t of cargo through a new multimodal terminal at Haldia.

On 21 October 2016, the biggest agri-bulk vessel to berth at the Port of Sheerness arrived ready to be loaded with a cargo of 30 000 t of milling wheat.

US coal company, Cloud Peak Energy, has contracted to export around 1 million short t of thermal coal to Asian markets.

Viterra, a subsidiary of commodities trading giant, Glencore, has reduced rates on its Export Select supply-chain service for the 2016/17 harvest.

The Port of Mackay has announced a new wash-down facility and quarantine approved premises.