Ports & terminals

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.

Antwerp, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Le Havre and Bremen/Bremerhaven port authorities strongly support the submissions of the North Sea and the Baltic countries to designate the North Sea and the Baltic Sea as NECA by 2021.

Associated British Ports’ Humber ports of Hull, Goole, Grimsby and Immingham have been collectively shortlisted for the North of England Transport Awards.

Throughput at the Port of Rotterdam decreases by 1.9% and dry bulk volumes fall by 7.8% in first nine months of 2016.

Port of Antwerp reported its freight volume was up 3.3% for the first nine months of 2016 but dry bulk volumes continue to decline.

Heila Cranes and Van Aalst Bulk Handling sign an exclusive cooperation agreement for the cement manipulator product group.

Essar Ports reports all-round growth in the quarter ended 30 September 2016.