CONTAINER PORT

APM Terminals to invest $500M in container facility on the Mississippi

In a race to lure jumbo cargo ships up the Mississippi River, Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District has signed a preliminary deal with APM Terminals to build a 900-acre container terminal about 20 miles south of the Port of New Orleans.

Under terms of the agreement, Plaquemines Port will lease the land to APM Terminals for at least 30 years. The initial construction phase will begin with a 200-acre development that includes a container terminal with on-dock railing and a berth capable of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/apm-terminals-to-invest-500m-in-container-facility-on-the-mississippi

Port of Melbourne invests to accommodate bigger ships

Pictured: a container ship underway. Photo credit: Cameron Venti via Unsplash.

Port of Melbourne will extend Webb Dock East Berth 4/5, enabling more ships to be berthed at the port.

WDE was completed in 2016 as part of the Port Capacity Project with a berth length of 660 metres, enabling two vessels of 300 metres to be berthed concurrently.

The design vessel was envisaged as being 300 metres long, 40 metres beam (wide) and 14 metres maximum draught.

However, there has been an increasing number...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/port-of-melbourne-invests-to-accommodate-bigger-ships/

DP World Enters Strategic Partnership For US$ 1.2B Port And Industrial Logistics Park

New Strategic Partnership For Us $ 1.2 Billion Port And Industrial Logistics Park In Indonesia

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Two preliminary agreements between global trade enabler DP World and Indonesia’s leading conglomerate Maspion Group were signed today to create a US$ 1.2 billion container port and industrial logistics park in East Java.

The exchange of agreements was witnessed by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of UAE Armed Forces, and Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia. Also present at the signing ceremony were the...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/dp-world-enters-strategic-partnership-for-us-1-2b-port-and-industrial-logistics-park/

Iceland: Clouds over container port project

Icelandic Minister for the Environment Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, who in 2012 opposed the building of a container port in Finnafjörður fjord, Northeast Iceland, now declines to comment on the matter, Fréttablaðið reports. The likelihood of such a port becoming a reality increased greatly on April 11, when a cooperation agreement was signed beween Langanesbyggð municipality, Vopnafjarðarhreppur district, the German ports management company Bremenports (with a 66 percent stake) and the...

https://container-news.com/iceland-clouds-over-container-port-project/

Newcastle container port could save exporters

Exporters in the New England North West region could save $2.8 billion in the next three decades with a container terminal at the Port of Newcastle, a report has found.

The report, which features a case study on Namoi Cotton among others, compares container transport costs for Newcastle with those for Port Botany and Port of Brisbane.

It found the savings ranged from $193 to $583 per 20-foot container (TEU).

Port of Newcastle chief executive officer Craig Carmody said the report found exports from...

http://container-news.com/container-port-newcastle-save-exporters/

Denmark’s most modern container port

It will be completed by the end of 2021 – the futureproof, modern, sustainable and automated container terminal in Copenhagen. The terminal substantially strengthens CMP’s role as the leading actor within freight handling in the capital region and throughout Eastern Denmark.

The area in Outer Northern Harbour is fairly anonymous, however, the on-going groundworks are a reminder that this is where the container terminal of the future will be just three years from now.

“We are making a major...

http://container-news.com/denmark-most-modern-container-port/