Ocean carriers serving the West Coast have partnered with two Southern California ports to develop a fuel subsidy program to help offset the cost of using cleaner burning low-sulfur diesel fuel in their main engines. The one-year program will see the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles pay the price differential between the cost of bunker fuel and low...
The U.S. Coast Guard said it has placed Iran on a security advisory list for not maintaining effective antiterrorism measures at its ports, as required by the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code. Vessels will be targeted for increased boardings when arriving in U.S. ports if they have visited an Iranian port during their last five port ...
One month ago today (18 January) a crane accident at Southampton Container Terminal forced the near shut down of the UK's second largest container port. One crane was broken and others had to be taken out of service for safety checks. One month on, the terminal still has only five out of 11 cranes operating. Near normal working conditions are not no...
Luka Koper, d.d. has produced in collaboration with the company Actual IT the application E-container, that enables users to examine the situation of containers on the Luka Koper's container terminal. The applications enables enquiries by the following criteria: - type of transport mean that brought the container on the terminal or carried it awa...
New arrangements for ’Operation Stack’ are to be introduced on the A14 approaching the Port of Felixstowe on 6th March 2008. ‘Operation Stack’ is the name given to the traffic management plan used by Suffolk Police and other agencies when, as a result of restrictions at the Port of Felixstowe, traffic builds up on the A14. Although port restrictio...
The Manatee County Port Authority accepted new master plan concepts at its Feb. 21st meeting presented by consultants after 17 months of work. The concepts include four alternatives with a maximum build out by 2038 projected to cost nearly $500 million. Funding for the master plan alternatives was not considered during the presentation, but it is exp...
Tideworks Technology® Inc., a provider of full-service terminal management and planning solutions, announced the successful deployment and implementation of its suite of container terminal products at Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in Gdynia, Poland. The implementation at BCT represents Tideworks’ first deployment at a dedicated container terminal in Eur...
Kalmar Industries has been awarded an order for 22 E-One+ rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes from South Africa’s Transnet Limited, parent company of port operator Transnet Port Terminals (TPT). The units will operate at the country’s newest port development, Port of Ngqura, on the Eastern Cape. Deliveries will commence in October of this year with the final...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi