South Carolina Ports saw strong container volumes in August as retail imports continue to flow into the Port of Charleston.

Keeping ports functioning during a pandemic is vitally important. Ports ensure that medical supplies, food, fuel, raw materials and manufactured goods, as well as vital components for maintaining employment, continue to reach their intended destinations. In this context, Fundación Valenciaport, always attentive to the needs of the sector, has launched a new advisory service on the management of pandemics in ports whose main objective is to provide port managers with a global and precise vision of the situation so that they know exactly what they are facing and how to act in the event of the possible spread of infectious diseases in the port area. 

AD Ports Group and France-based CMA CGM Group have announced the signing of a 35-year concession agreement.

Belgium’s Goeyvaerts-R bvba (Goeyvaerts) has ordered two new eco-efficient Generation 6 Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour cranes for their growing rental fleet across ports in the Netherlands and Belgium. The order, booked in July, will be handed over in November 2021.

Navis recently announced that C. Steinweg’s Botlek Terminal has completed its implementation of Master Terminal. The implementation of the software is another step in C. Steinweg’s plan to roll out Master Terminal across its broader network of terminals in Rotterdam, South Holland, the largest and one of the most technologically advanced seaports in Europe.

The UK’s Q2 2021 port freight statistics from the Department for Transport released recently indicate positive signs of economic recovery despite ongoing pandemic impacts and new post-Brexit? processes with UK-EU traffic. 

On Wednesday, 8 September 2021, the Megamax container ship Ever Ace called at the Port of Hamburg for the first time with the evening‘s high tide.

Fonna Vekst is very proud to finally be able to share with the rest of the world that a new maritime equipment supplier has seen the light of day!

Zero Emission Services (ZES) commenced recently with the Alphenaar, the first Dutch inland vessel to use interchangeable energy containers for propulsion. The Alphenaar sails between Alphen aan den Rijn and Moerdijk transporting beer for HEINEKEN, ZES’s first end customer.

Awake.AI has won the tender to provide vessel schedule estimates for Finnish ports through Fintraffic Vessel Traffic Services.

In eco-friendly rail freight transport, the seaport of Kiel is getting additional capacity and faster connections.

The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority recently took delivery of new Liebherr mobile harbour crane technology.

Ports across Europe and the world are increasingly seeing shore power as a highly effective way to reduce emissions from ships in port. The problem of ship emissions in ports has intensified in the wake of the pandemic, as cruise ships that previously stayed in ports for a matter of hours or days, stay at the same berths continually running their conventionally-powered engines, thereby increasing emissions of hazardous chemicals and particulate matter. One port where this has become an urgent issue, with large numbers of cruise ships berthing for extended periods, is the Port of Marseille, France’s largest port.

With the publication of guidance for operators on the responsibilities of operating a Freeport customs site by HMRC, the British Ports Association (BPA) has welcomed the development of the UK Freeport model.

A new rail shuttle is about to begin transporting timber products from Malungsfors in Dalarna to Asia via the Port of Gothenburg. The new shuttle will generate substantial carbon savings and logistical benefits, consolidating the port as the principal hub for the export of Swedish timber products.

The overall trend in seaborne cargo throughput in the Port of Hamburg in the first half of 2021 was positive.

At their August 26, 2021 Regular Monthly Meeting, the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans unanimously approved a contract for Programme Management and Programme Control Services to HDR Engineering, Inc., a global engineering and consulting firm, as part of the multi-year due diligence and permitting process for the new Louisiana International Terminal (LIT) container facility in St. Bernard Parish. 

The launch of the new digital Berth Planner tool, Allberth, is underway at the largest port in Scandinavia. The first to use this new smart service is Port Control – which receives all calls at the Port of Gothenburg – and the safety and security coordinators at the Energy Terminal. External users will gradually join the system.

The Port of Long Beach ushered in the next era of environmentally sustainable operations recently with the completion of the Long Beach Container Terminal at Middle Harbour, one of the most technologically advanced cargo facilities in the world.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will approve substantial amounts of funding for three key hydrogen projects as part of the implementation of the National Hydrogen Strategy.

South Carolina Ports received a $1.3 million grant to support project partners as they deploy all-electric, energy-efficient trucks in place of diesel trucks.

The Port of Virginia is handling, on average, more than 282,000 TEUs per month thus far in 2021 and doing so while advancing multiple, critical infrastructure projects aimed at driving the port’s efficiency and maximising capacity.

TecPlata, International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (ICTSI) Argentine subsidiary operating at the Port of La Plata, is collaborating with the Sta. Fe Port Administrative Entity for a new feeder service to connect the Port of Santa Fe to Brazil and Asia via TecPlata.  

Super Terminais Comercio e Industria Ltda (Super Terminais), a private cargo terminal at the Port of Manaus, Brazil, has ordered three eco-efficient Generation 6 Konecranes Gottwald ESP.10 cranes to service the biggest shipping vessels in modern logistics. The order, booked in June 2021, will be used to handle containers and general cargo.