Latest News – Page 330
-
NewsHackathon winner solves ETA irregularities
chainPORT Hackathon winner Rombit has made waves in Antwerp with its solution to optimise often-inaccurate ship arrival times.
-
NewsKonecranes secures 54-crane order
Lifting equipment firm Konecranes has netted a 54-crane deal for construction of the Khalifa Port Container Terminal (KPCT), plus an order for the Mediterranean’s largest-ever mobile harbour crane.
-
NewsKalmar offers vision of supply chain future
A world where container logistics companies never touch a physical container, nor own or operate a single ship, terminal or container handling machine: that’s a future scenario considered by cargo handling solutions and services firm Kalmar.
-
News
Aqaba New Port set for digitisation
Jordan’s Aqaba New Port will see all ship and goods movements, warehouse management and logistics fully digitised in a project with a contract volume worth millions of euros.
-
NewsMontréal selects Liebherr cranes
Liebherr Container Cranes will deliver 10 electric rubber-tyred gantry cranes (ERTGs) to Montréal Gateway Terminals Partnership’s (MGT) Cast Terminal and Racine Terminal next year.
-
NewsGreenPort Congress kicks off in Valencia
The 2018 GreenPort Congress has opened for business with an opening talk by Michael McCarthy of Cruise Europe welcoming delegates to a day focused on green cruise.
-
NewsGulftainer eyes US port opportunities
There are “exciting” operational and infrastructure opportunities in the US ports market, Badr Jafar, CEO of Crescent Enterprises and chairman of Gulftainer, has said
-
News
Chabahar fast-track to beat US sanctions
A deal to hand the operation of Iran’s Chabahar Port to India has been sped up after being hampered by a pay dispute and impending US sanctions on Iran.
-
NewsEU backs ‘polluter pays’ ship waste approach
The EU Parliament has strengthened ‘polluter pays’ principle for ship waste management during the Port Reception Facilities vote.
-
News
Critical cyber security weakness revealed
Junior staff in port operations are a crushing weak spot for ports as they look to build up their cyber security resilience, a specialist has warned.
-
News
COMMENT: Spectre of global recession looms
COMMENT: We should not be sanguine about the disarray in the world economic order that is enveloping us, writes Ben Hackett.
-
NewsUS port looks to microgrid efficiency
The Port of Long Beach is to undertake a project to show renewable technology’s effectiveness in providing a clean reliable supply of electricity for operations.
-
NewsForeign languages could boost UK trade
Learning foreign languages could be a means for UK ports to increase trade in light of Brexit, it has been suggested at the British Ports Association Conference 2018.
-
NewsGovernment rules Halifax expansion unsuitable
Nova Scotia''s federal cabinet minister is supporting the Canadian Government’s decision not to fund a major expansion at the Port of Halifax, claiming traffic and proposed land use could be problematic.
-
NewsAfrican states show environmental progress
African states have been praised in working together towards meeting international environmental targets by the Maritime Authority of Jamaica’s director general at the fourth meeting of the Association of African Maritime Administrations (AAMA).
-
NewsLong Beach to show microgrid efficiency
The Port of Long Beach will build and demonstrate a US$7.1m ‘microgrid’ to show the renewable technology’s effectiveness in providing a clean, reliable supply of electricity for critical operations.
-
NewsHurricane shutdown for Florida ports
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has set port condition Zulu for northern Florida Gulf Coast ports and port condition X-ray for ports in Georgia, South Carolina, and all other terminals and facilities, in preparation for the impact of Hurricane Michael.
-
NewsTrade imbalance a “wasted opportunity”
The UK’s export-import imbalance — when the nation’s ports have invested hundreds of millions of pounds into boosting capacity and the country is facing threats to global trade from protectionism — is “a wasted opportunity”.
-
NewsGreener grid for UK harbour
BAE Systems is installing ABB´s new shore-to-ship power solution to energise high power consumption vessels in a pioneering project at a UK harbour.
-
NewsPort management system improves operations
Ports of Jersey has a new port management system which aims to optimise the efficiency of daily operations and improve the accuracy of customer communications.
