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.
Modernisation and expansion programme has increased South Container Terminal’s capacity from 1.8 million to 4 million TEUs, with a long-term goal of 5 million TEUs.
The UK Government has awarded more than £55 million to Port of Cromarty Firth in a huge boost to secure critical facilities needed for the rapid development of new floating offshore windfarms and ensure they are built from the UK.
Three oil tankers have been damaged by blasts in the last month in separate incidents around the Mediterranean, with the causes unknown, shipping and security sources said on Wednesday.