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Kiel Port Prize Goes to Grage of SCA Logistics

Sep 15, 2017

The 2017 annual Port of Kiel Prize has been awarded to Jörn Grage, Managing Director of SCA Logistics GmbH.  The award was presented on Thursday evening, September 14th, by Dr Dirk Claus, Managing Director of the PORT OF KIEL (SEEHAFEN KIEL GmbH & Co…

PD Ports Warns UK Against 'Brexit Blinkers'

Sep 14, 2017

In the week that global maritime leaders gave the UK a vote of confidence, naming it one of the world’s leading maritime centres, PD Ports is urging UK businesses not to develop ‘Brexit blinkers’ but instead to explore significant new global opportunities as the UK negotiates its exit from the EU…

CNOOC Ends Feasibility Study for Western Canadian LNG Terminal

Sep 14, 2017

China's CNOOC Ltd said on Thursday it will end the feasibility study for its (LNG) export terminal on British Columbia's coast due to low global commodity prices, in the latest setback for Canada's energy industry. Nexen Energy, a unit of CNOOC…

Houthi Leader Says Could Target Saudi Oil Tankers

Sep 14, 2017

Yemen's Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said on Thursday his group could target Saudi oil tankers should Saudi Arabia attack Yemen's main port at Hodeida. 'We could target Saudi oil tankers and we could do anything, we have not done this before…

Port of LA Registers Record-Breaking August

Sep 13, 2017

August container volumes at the Untied States’ busiest port climbed by 6.1 percent compared to August 2016 volumes. 847,857 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) came through the Port of Los Angeles, marking the busiest August and the second-busiest month in the port’s 110-year history…

Global Bunkers, 2020 and Developing Market Trends

Sep 13, 2017

Alok Sharma, Head of Global Sales at Glencore’s Inatech, provides an in-depth look at what’s coming next for one of the maritime industry’s most interesting and important sectors. When it comes to bunkers, the OW crisis is still fresh in everyone’s mind…

Port of Saldanha’s New LPG Terminal Launched

Sep 13, 2017

A new open-access liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) plant has been opened at the Port of Saldanha on the West Coast of South Africa and will aid in increasing LPG's use in the national energy mix. Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) awarded…

Port Canaveral Resumes Operations

Sep 12, 2017

As of 12 noon today, the U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port (COTP) approved restricted commercial vessel transit through Port Canaveral to allow the port to support the arrival of critical fuel supplies destined for Florida consumers, and…

New Orleans' Big Plans Showing Dividends

Sep 12, 2017

A Container-on-Barge service intended to be an integral part of the regional intermodal equation is gathering momentum – and customers.  Quietly, the Port of New Orleans (NOLA) has marked some important accomplishments in the past two years…

BMT Secures Coal Jetty Engineering Contract

Sep 12, 2017

BMT Group subsidiary BMT Asia Pacific (BMT) will provide detailed engineering design and risk management consultancy services for a new coal unloading jetty and associated bulk handling system at the Tanjung Bin Energy (TBE) Power Plant in Johor…

Konecranes Signs Service Agreement with MPET

Sep 12, 2017

In August 2017, Konecranes signed a major service agreement: the company’s Antwerp-based service organization will perform all of the maintenance and repair work on more than 150 Konecranes Noell Straddle Carriers of different generations for MSC PSA European Terminal (MPET)…

APM Terminals to Divest Zeebrugge Stake

Sep 11, 2017

APM Terminals and Hong Kong-based COSCO SHIPPING Ports, a subsidiary of China COSCO Shipping Corporation, have reached an agreement on the key terms of the proposed sale of APM Terminals’ 76% majority shareholding in the existing APM Terminals Zeebrugge container terminal to COSCO SHIPPING Ports…

Invest in Greece, You Won't Regret It: Greek PM

Sep 11, 2017

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged French businesses on Friday to invest in Greece, as it emerges from its debt crisis, and assured them that they would not regret it. Tsipras said attracting investment was a priority for his leftist-led government…

Record August Cargoes at Port of Virginia

Sep 11, 2017

The Port of Virginia tallied the most productive August in its history, moving 240,605 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a 2.2 percent increase when compared with the same month last year. “As construction progresses at VIG (Virginia…

Technology Drives Growth of India’s Major Ports

Sep 10, 2017

Technological advancement for modernization of major ports and reforms for enhancing ease of doing business are driving and sustaining the growth trend line at India’s major ports.  The country’s 12 major ports together handled 273.96 Million Tonnes of cargo between April to August…

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