Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) is marking a significant milestone with the arrival of the super-sized ship, the M/V CMA CGM Pelleas, which has docked at the Port of Melbourne.

The projects of the Port of Cartagena, Guadeloupe Port Caraïbes, North Sea Port and Port of Vigohave been shortlisted for the 15th edition of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) Award on Social Integration of Ports.

Georgia Ports Authority announced as official supporter and keynote speaker for Port & Terminal Technology USA 2024. Find out more about this must-attend key industry event for the container, port and terminal industry at www.mcimedia.com

St. Louis regional ports and the St. Louis Regional Freightway are jointly supporting the Port of New Orleans’ (Port NOLA) efforts to strengthen the flow of inland river cargo with the development of the Louisiana International Terminal (LIT). The LIT is a new container terminal project on the Gulf Coast that will benefit not only residents and businesses in south Louisiana, but also advanced manufacturing operations, agribusinesses and farmers, as well as other port operations throughout the Southeast and Midwest regions. Port NOLA's new $1.8 billion state-of-the art container terminal will eliminate air-draft restrictions that limit the size of vessels that can currently call on the Port NOLA, allowing it to serve vessels of all sizes and dramatically increasing Louisiana’s import and export capacity while fostering strategic inland growth.

The 8 Rubber-Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes will be delivered to a new container terminal at Puerto Antioquia, Colombia, that will provide new export and import power for the regional economy of Antioquia and Colombia as a whole. The order was booked in August 2023.

STBERNARD, with a budget of € 6.7 million co-funded by the Horizon Europe Programme, will improve the safety of first responders in risk or emergency situations, while reducing the number and severity of casualties and mitigating environmental impact. 

Ocean carrier ZIM is now offering a first-of-its-kind direct service between the Port of Savannah and the West Coast of South America to support the growing perishables market.

The Ports of Duisburg (duisport) and Rotterdam have launched a new feasibility study as the next phase in their collaboration to establish European hydrogen networks.

Mike Jordan, one of the world’s pioneer designers of the first ship-to-shore container crane, died on September 2, 2023, after a brief illness. He was 88. Jordan was the founding principal of Liftech Consultants Inc. in Oakland, CA. During his 65 plus-year career, Jordan provided engineering for thousands of container handling cranes worldwide, as well as wharves, floats, heavy lift systems, container yard handling equipment, and other complex structures.

He developed innovations that are now industry standards used worldwide, such as banded prestressing in concrete construction, wire rope dampers to eliminate wind induced vibration in crane structures, and fatigue tolerant structural details for cranes. Jordan is listed as an inventor on several patents, in the US and Europe, for innovations in the transportation industry, for container ships, for port-related handling equipment, and even for improved construction of domed structures. 

In 2018, the Maritime Association of the Port of New York and New Jersey inducted Jordan into the International Maritime Hall of Fame. Considered as “a visionary dedicated to the industry,” Jordan was recognized for his groundbreaking work on the first dockside container crane in 1958 and in developing new structural designs that have impacted container crane design worldwide. 

Jordan compared the impact of containerized cargo made possible by his ship-to-shore cranes to the Silk Road of 2,000 years ago. “Then caravans of products were carried from China to the western world, and from the west to China, fostering the exchange of ideas and cultures as well as goods. Containerized shipping created a new Silk Road with continuous lines of cargo containers traveling East to the Americas and back; and, again, ideas and cultures were exchanged so extensively that we now live in the same neighborhood.” According to Erik Soderberg, president of Liftech, “Mike fostered curiosity and collaboration in his mentorship; his passion for excellence was contagious.” 

Jordan is survived by his wife Sue, his life’s partner both in his career and at home, and by his three sons: Ken, Bill, and Alex, their wives, six grandchildren, and a recent great-granddaughter. 

The family asks in lieu of flowers contributions be made in his name to a charity such as Oakland Youth Orchestra or the Engineer’s Alliance for the Arts. 

Shipping company Finnlines is making a major investment, introducing two brand new vessels on the Kapellskär – Långnäs – Naantali route. On 15 September the first vessel, M/S Finnsirius, made her maiden call at Port of Kapellskär and was welcomed with a celebratory water salute.

About 48 hours of berth operations were required to unload the first container ship to leave a Ukrainian port that had overcome the blockade of the port of Odessa and which, after a stopover in Istanbul, chose Cagliari as a safe port to discharge 2,114 containers equivalent to 3,474 Teus.

The British Ports Association (BPA) and the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) join forces to address sustainability in ports as IAPH establishes a firm base in London.

In the fast-paced world of supply chain and logistics, International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) can help port users and businesses gain a competitive edge by providing real-time cargo visibility through the ICTSI App.

Match funding awarded from the Department for Transport will see seven-figure investment in Scotland’s first large-scale shore power project. Port of Aberdeen leads industry consortium to pioneer large-scale landside and vessel-side shore power system. 

Port Houston in Texas has ordered 5 Konecranes hybrid RTGs for its Barbours Cut Container Terminal to support its long-term improvement programme covering channel development and land infrastructure investment.The order was booked in Q3 2023, with the cranes to be delivered at the beginning of 2025.

A new study published today [Tuesday 12 September 2023] suggests that Freeport East could become a new UK centre for transport decarbonisation. The study outlines how Freeport East can facilitate the international partnerships and investment necessary for the Green Hydrogen Hub to support maritime and wider transport sectors. 

The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) welcomes the aim of the Commission’s Green Deal Industrial Plan to ensure that the European Union can become an important player in the production and supply of net-zero products and technologies and a competitive player in these new sectors. ESPO also believes that a well-established net-zero industrial ecosystem in Europe is an important instrument for progressing fast and efficiently on the energy transition and reaching Europe’s climate ambitions. 

The Port of New Orleans was awarded $947,280 in recently announced Port Security Grant funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support the expansion and enhancement of emergency services for Port NOLA’s maritime and industrial operations. 

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is expanding the portfolio of its climate-friendly product HHLA Pure. As of today, HHLA rail subsidiary Metrans will significantly expand its HHLA Pure network in Europe and thus offer its customers additional routes certified as climate neutral.

The British Ports Association (BPA) has welcomed the start of this year’s London International Shipping Week (LISW) and reinforced the critical role that ports play in enabling the UK to access international markets.

Community Network Services (CNS), a subsidiary of DP World, has announced the launch of its new CNS Port Community System (PCS) to future-proof port technology in the United Kingdom and globally.