Saudi Arabia has awarded a contract to a local company to build a logistics zone at its Western Red Sea Port of Jeddah within an ongoing strategy to expand shipping business, newspapers reported on Wednesday. The Saudi Ports Authority (SPA) – Mawani- signed an land lease agreement on Tuesday with...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/saudi-signs-deal-to-build-logistics-zone-at-jeddah-port/
COSCO Shipping Ports (CSP) Iberian Valencia Terminal has ordered two rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes at the port equipment manufacturer Konecranes.
The cranes on the order that are expected to be delivered to the Spanish terminal in the third quarter of 2022 are similar to Valencia terminal’s existing fleet of 39 Konecranes RTGs.
“We’ve been working with Konecranes for years. They have always followed through on their commitments with excellent local support,” said the general manager of...
https://container-news.com/cosco-valencia-terminal-to-expand-rtg-crane-fleet/
The biometrics technology provider Oosto has supplied the maritime logistics operator in the Israeli port of Ashdod, Group 207, with facial recognition technology for video surveillance of all cargo-handling activities.
Oosto’s visual artificial intelligence (AI)-driven access control solution instantly recognises authorised individuals, which leads to a substantial amount of manpower saved, reduction in man-hours, as well as increased operational transparency.
Group 207 facility of 70,000m2 saw...
https://container-news.com/ashdod-sea-port-deploys-oostos-facial-recognition-technology/
Sogester (Sociedade Gestora de Terminais, S.A.) container terminal in Luanda, Angola (operating since 2007) is a joint venture between APM Terminals (51%) and the Gestor de Fundos of Angola. In December 2021, the terminal significantly upgraded its equipment with the arrival of 2 new Liebherr...
During January, there were five new detentions of a foreign flagged vessel in a UK port. 1. In response to one of the recommendations of Lord Donaldson’s inquiry into the prevention of pollution from merchant shipping, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) publishes details of the foreign...
The US West and East Coast ports saw a reduction in port congestion during January, as workers cleared a substantial backlog amid Covid-19 outbreaks, according to the supply chain visibility platform provider Project44.
Particularly, the number of days that ships were waiting to berth at US ports, on average, fell from 14.1 days in December to 7.4 days in January, according to Project44 intelligence.
However, while there was some easement at US ports, including Los Angeles (POLA) and Long Beach...
https://container-news.com/port-congestion-eases-in-the-united-states-shifts-to-asia/
Works are under way to expand the two-way section of the Suez canal to 82 km (51 miles) from 72 km, the chairman of the authority managing the Egyptian waterway said on Tuesday. Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie told a news conference that it would be too expensive to expand the entire...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/suez-canal-expansion-to-increase-two-way-section-by-10km/
COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has made a decent start of the year handling more than 8.6 million TEU in January across all of its terminals worldwide.
Yantian International Container Terminals Ltd. in the Pearl River Delta region achieved the best performance among all of the COSCO-owned port companies in the world with approximately 1.2 million TEU in January, followed by Guangzhou Terminals in the same region with 945,200 TEU.
Tianjin Container Terminals stood out in the Bohai Rim area handling...
https://container-news.com/cosco-shipping-ports-reports-8-6-million-teu-in-january/
Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg JSC (SP SPb) has invested almost US$360,770 (RUB27.3 million) during the last year in the implementation of its environmental programme to increase the frequency of air quality measuring from monthly to daily.
Ecological monitoring implies analysis of air samples involving seven parameters and wastewater samples involving 20 parameters, according to a statement.
The port has also conducted regular monitoring of acoustic load at the border of the sanitary protection...
https://container-news.com/port-of-saint-petersburg-invests-in-air-quality-monitoring/
The Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) will be in charge of running Patenga container terminal, which is likely to be opened this June to take off increasing cargo pressure on Chattogram port, until a foreign firm is finalised, according to authorities. Five foreign operators have expressed interest...