Dutch offshore services firm Fugro has signed a development agreement with autonomous vessel technology specialist L3 ASV to jointly create autonomous vessels for the commercial survey market. The partnership aims to deliver the first unmanned surface vessel (USV), designed for medium- to...
https://splash247.com/fugro-to-develop-autonomous-survey-vessels/
APM Terminals is planning to raise around BHD12m ($32m) for its Bahrain unit through an IPO on the Bahrain Bourse. It will be the first IPO for a transport and logistics company on the stock exchange. APM Terminals currently holds 80% of the shares and the remaining 20% of shares are held by local...
Heineken’s announcement:
We are innovating a low carbon transport route with our partners in the Netherlands.
We believe that low carbon transport is essential to securing our sustainable, globally competitive position. As part of our commitment to reduce emissions, we are working to make transportation of goods cleaner and more efficient.
Every year in the Netherlands, some 45,000 containers of beer are transported from our brewery in Zoeterwoude to the port of Rotterdam, where they continue on...
http://container-news.com/heineken-supports-low-carbon-transport/
The Dutch logistics service provider Schavemaker is increasing the cargo-handling capacity of its rail terminal to the southwest of the Polish city of Wrocław by extending two railway tracks. The company has also announced a new direct rail link between Southern Poland and Moerdijk.
By extending the 2 x 400 metre tracks to 2 x 600 metres, the terminal will be able to handle two trains at a time and a total of six trains a day. On 9 October 2018, the Minister of Infrastructure and Water...
http://container-news.com/increased-rail-link-netherlands-poland/
The doors of the world’s largest sea lock in IJmuiden are heading to the Netherlands. On the night of 23 October the doors left from South Korea and they are expected to arrive in the Netherlands in about two months. The doors are being transferred on a heavy-load carrier.
In total, three doors are being transported, of which two are operational lock gates, for which the door seal is now being installed in IJmuiden and a reserve lock door.
The lock gates are 72m long, 24m high and 11m wide...
https://safety4sea.com/gate-for-worlds-largest-sea-lock-to-arrive-in-two-months/
Seabed Geosolutions and its partner in the Middle East ARGAS have been awarded a 3D ocean bottom node survey by Saudi Aramco in the Red Sea. The project will require the acquisition and processing of high quality 3D data over a large area in various water depths. The surveys are scheduled to...
https://splash247.com/seabed-geosolutions-awarded-red-sea-survey-contract/
Major European owner Vroon is in the process of selling off one of its last four dry bulk carriers. Splash understands the 2011-built is on subjects to Panama’s Interocean. Brokers indicate the vessel it is likely to fetch a price in the mid-$16ms, a far cry from MSI’s fair market value of . The...
https://splash247.com/interocean-circles-vroon-post-panamax-bulker/
ABN AMRO, the Port of Rotterdam Authority and Samsung SDS, the logistics and IT arm of Samsung, have joined forces to launch a pilot based on blockchain technology. The ultimate goal of the project is for a complete, paperless integration of physical, administrative and financial streams within...
Subsea operator DeepOcean has been awarded a contract for the provision of post-lay trenching services along 65km of umbilical offshore Australia. Work is expected to commence late this year, and will utilise the company’s T1 trencher. Andrew Piasecki, commercial director cable lay and trenching at...
https://splash247.com/deepocean-awarded-australian-contract/
APM Terminals have reached an agreement to divest its container terminal in Izmir, Turkey to its current partner SOCAR. In the new structure, operating company Petlim will be fully owned by SOCAR Turkey, and will continue to be managed by APM Terminals. The terminal, which will be named Petlim...
https://splash247.com/apm-terminals-sells-interest-in-izmir-terminal-to-socar/