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Gulftainer Wins Logistics Industry Honors for TOS

May 12, 2017

Gulftainer,  privately owned independent terminal operating and logistics company whose global divisions include GT USA in North America, has won an industry award for its Marine and Container Handling (MACH) Terminal Operating System (TOS)…

Tradepoint Atlantic: Logistics for Offshore Wind Projects

May 12, 2017

Tradepoint Atlantic, a 3,100-acre multimodal global logistics center in Baltimore that features a combination of access to deepwater berths, railroads, highways and storage space, has issued a statement in connection with the Maryland PSC’s…

Mein Schiff 6 Makes Maiden Call in Kiel

May 12, 2017

The latest newbuilding to join TUI Cruises, Mein Schiff 6, has berthed in Kiel for the first time. Kiel is the ship’s first passenger port of call in Germany she has visited since she was handed over a few days ago in Turku, Finland. The 99…

Union Calls Off Strike at Jakarta Port

May 12, 2017

An Indonesian labour union has scrapped a planned strike at Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port next week, ensuring operations would run normally at the country's busiest port, union officials said on Friday. Nova Sofyan Hakim, the chairman of…

DP World London Now Handles Far East Calls

May 12, 2017

MOL Triumph, the first of the world’s largest and newest vessels to call in the UK, arrives in Southampton on THE Alliance's FE2 service as new third deep-water berth opened at London Gateway in April, ahead of first regular Asia-Europe service starting…

Port of LA Sets April Cargo Record

May 11, 2017

April cargo volumes surged 8.9 percent at the Port of Los Angeles compared to the same month last year. It was the best April in the port’s 110-year history. For the first four months of 2017, cargo has increased 10 percent compared to 2016…

Fitch Affirms 'A' Rating for Port Everglades

May 11, 2017

Fitch Ratings has affirmed the 'A' rating on Broward County's Port Everglades' outstanding $167 million port facilities senior revenue and refunding bonds, and has revised the Rating Outlook from Stable to Positive. Fitch reported: 'The…

Peel Ports Appoints Schaap as Container Director

May 11, 2017

Peel Ports  has appointed APM Terminals’ Jouke Schaap to head up its entire container operations.The position has been created to drive commercial opportunities focussed on the company’s network of terminals and port-centric logistics facilities…

Abu Dhabi Ports Seeks Korean Investment

May 10, 2017

Abu Dhabi Ports the master developer, operator and manager of commercial and community ports in UAE, as well as Khalifa Industrial Zone, in conjunction with Abu Dhabi and the Korean Chambers of Commerce and Industry, have hosted an investment forum for the Korean market…

Engineering Firm Rebranded WSP USA

May 10, 2017

WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services firm, is now WSP worldwide effective May 10. In the United States, the firm will operate as WSP USA.  Parsons Brinckerhoff, a transportation engineering and management organization founded in 1885 in New York City…

Intermarine Expands Americas/Mediterranean Service

May 10, 2017

Transporter of project, breakbulk and heavylift cargo Intermarine, LLC said it has expanded its Houston-based liner services from the Americas to the Mediterranean. The line will focus on service from the U.S. Gulf Coast/Americas to the Mediterranean…

World's Largest Mobile Harbor Cranes Baptized

May 10, 2017

Four years ao Montecon challenged Liebherr Maritime Cranes to design and built a pair of mobile harbor cranes, the world's largest, that would be able to reach up to 22 rows of containers, a feat of dockside logistics never seen before.The project was recently successfully completed…

UK Chamber Warns Against Scrapping Le Touquet Treaty

May 09, 2017

Emmanuel Macron, the newly-elected French President, vowed during his election campaign to renegotiate the Le Touquet agreement which enables British border officials to carry out checks in France. The treaty provided for France and Britain to erect juxtaposed border controls in Channel ports…

Canada to Roll Out First Propane Export Terminal

May 09, 2017

Royal Vopak and AltaGas have entered into a joint venture and will invest together in the development of the Ridley Island Propane Export Terminal (RIPET). RIPET is expected to be the first propane export facility off the west coast of Canada…

Le Touquet Treaty in Question

May 09, 2017

Commenting on recent speculation that the newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron might look to renegotiate the Le Touquet agreement, which enables British border officials to carry out checks in France, the British Ports Association (BPA) Chief Executive…

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