Upon the project completion, berthing vessels will be able to connect to shore power and shut down diesel engines to reduce harmful emissions while in port.
In addition, Konecranes Port Services will retrofit eight existing Konecranes RTGs currently operating at the port. The retrofits will be completed by Q4 2025.
After a construction period of 22 months, the Cruise Port Shore Power installation was officially opened on 31 March, 2025, on the Holland Amerikakade.
AD Ports Group and Columbia Group have formed a joint venture to optimise third party vessel operations, and that of AD Ports Group’s ocean-going fleet, through state-of-the-art fleet management systems.
AD Ports Group and Columbia Group have formed a joint venture to optimise third party vessel operations, and that of AD Ports Group’s ocean-going fleet, through state-of-the-art fleet management systems.
The Saguenay Port Authority in Quebec has ordered a Konecranes Gottwald ESP.6B Mobile Harbor Crane for a new cargo handling system currently under development.
The navigation channel linking Portland Harbor and the Gulf of Maine is dredged every 15 years or so — most recently in 2014, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The Jacksonville District will begin annual maintenance dredging of the Jacksonville Harbor Federal Navigation Channel in mid-March 2025. The $25 million contract was awarded to Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting Co., LLC on December 16, 2024.