APM Terminals Maasvlakte II has set up a new rail shuttle to the Cabooter Terminal in Venlo. Under the new schedule, a total of three trains will be loading and unloading at this terminal every week. The trains will carry both import and export cargo. The new initiative doubles the number of rail connections between Rotterdam and Venlo’s Cabooter Terminal.
“The shuttle to Venlo will help us to move containers more quickly from Rotterdam to the hinterland,” says Roy de Haan, APM’s Head of...
Port of Rotterdam Authority started testing autonomous navigation with a floating lab.
https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/261949/port-of-rotterdam-tests-autonomous-navigation/
Budapest is really taking off as logistics hub. Industry is expanding in the Hungarian capital city and it is a perfect operational base for further transportation of freight by train or truck to Eastern Europe. This is the reason behind the first direct shuttle between Rotterdam and Budapest. The new Rail Cargo Operator (RCO) train connection enables containers from the Port of Rotterdam to reach Budapest within thirty hours.
The idea for the new shuttle arose when transport companies from...
http://container-news.com/rail-connection-rotterdam-budapest/
The Port of Rotterdam announced that the five new fixed berths for barges along the Maas end of Isle of Brienenoord are ‘good to go’. The project, a Port of Rotterdam Authority initiative realised by the Werkendam firm De Klerk, was officially accepted on Monday, 1 October 2018.
While the site had already served as an anchorage for barges for a number of years, the construction of new berths has significantly improved safety conditions along this stretch of the river.
The berths were designed and...
https://safety4sea.com/port-of-rotterdam-five-new-safe-berths-for-barges-are-good-to-go/
The Port of Rotterdam Authority has signed a partnership agreement with an artificial intelligence software startup to help develop autonomous navigation within the port. The Port of Rotterdam Authority says it has is not a question of if, but when autonomous navigation will be introduced. So in...
It is not a question of whether but when autonomous navigation will be introduced. In order to prepare the Port of Rotterdam Authority for the arrival of autonomous navigation, the Port of Rotterdam Authority has converted a patrol vessel into a floating lab that collects data, including about the vessel’s operation and power.
By making these data available to the business community and education, further research can be conducted into the introduction of autonomous navigation and the Port of...
http://container-news.com/port-rotterdam-autonomous-navigation/
The five new fixed berths for barges along the Maas end of Isle of Brienenoord are ‘good to go’.
The project, a Port of Rotterdam Authority initiative realised by the Werkendam firm De Klerk, was officially accepted by the client on Monday, 1 October 2018.
While the site had already served as an anchorage for barges for a number of years, the construction of new berths has significantly improved safety conditions along this stretch of the river. The berths were designed and realised in close...
The Port of Rotterdam will form the background for Experience Week Connected Transport in early October. During this week, 250 test journeys will take place on various routes involving trucks equipped with connected technology driving in convoy. The Rotterdam/Maasvlakte region will be central on 2, 4 and 5 October and a demo will take place at the ECT Delta Terminal gate.
A smart solution such as connected transport can help ensure that logistics processes in the harbour run even more smoothly...
In order to prepare for the arrival of autonomous navigation, the Port of Rotterdam has converted a patrol vessel into a floating lab that collects data, including about the vessel’s operation and power.
These data will enable further research for the introduction of autonomous navigation and the Port of Rotterdam. The first partnership for data exchange from the floating lab has now been signed with Captain AI. They are adding artificial intelligence to the data, enabling computers to be...
https://safety4sea.com/port-of-rotterdam-tests-automation-with-floating-lab/
Shell recently delivered its first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering from its specialised LNG bunker vessel ‘Cardissa’. This operation marked a number of other firsts, as it fueled the Russian Sovcomflot’s vessel ‘Gagarin Prospect’, the world’s first LNG-fueled Aframax tanker. It was also the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering to take place in the Port of Rotterdam.
The fueling of the Gagarin Prospect with LNG is the first operation under the LNG fuel supply agreement between Shell and Sovcomflot signed...
https://safety4sea.com/first-sts-lng-bunkering-conducted-in-port-of-rotterdam/