Asyaport

Asyaport becomes first Turkish port to offer shore power to boxships

Asyaport is the first port in Türkiye to offer shore power to container vessels, which is an important milestone for decarbonizing maritime logistics in the country.

Türkiye’s largest container terminal Asyaport is advancing its commitment to decarbonizing supply chains with its latest installation of Onshore Power Supply (OPS). This new system will provide electricity to berthed vessels, reducing their carbon emissions and environmental impact.

This system has the capacity to simultaneously...

https://container-news.com/asyaport-becomes-first-turkish-port-to-offer-shore-power-to-boxships/

Turkish container port adopts anti-seismic crane system

Casper, Phillips & Associates Inc. (CPA) has provided the Asyaport in Turkey with a crane base seismic isolation system named BASIS.

Built on nonlinear time history analysis (NLTHA), BASIS has been successfully installed and commissioned on two cranes that are in a major seismic zone in Turkey, as it has the ability to protect the crane main structure from damage, “even in contingency level earthquakes”.

The revolutionary anti-seismic system is installed between the sill beam and main equaliser...

https://container-news.com/turkish-container-port-adopts-anti-seismic-crane-system/

MSC offers storage in terminal yards to help prevent import congestion at ports

As consumer demand in Europe and North America drops off a cliff, fears have grown among logistics operators of an impending container congestion crisis at import destinations as shipments arranged before widespread social lockdowns have continued towards their destinations.
In response, MSC has introduced a suspension of transit (SOT) programme to help shippers and their freight service providers prevent container exports out of Asia building up at ports, by offering terminal …

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https://theloadstar.com/msc-offers-storage-in-terminal-yards-to-help-prevent-import-congestion-at-ports/