Tag: port upgrade

The Pilbara Ports Authority will cooperate with Jan De Nul Group to dredge the channel and further improve the safe and sustainable access to the Port of Port Hedland. The project is part of the Channel Risk and Optimisation Project that aims to sustain the long-operation, development, and future growth of the port.

Australia’s Port of Cairns will soon be ready to welcome larger cruise ships as the Queensland government announced an AUD 127 million contract for the dredging and construction works as part of the Cairns Shipping Development Project. The project aims to enable bigger vessels entering the port, and thus, increase the number of visiting cruise ships.

Trelleborg will provide to the Port of Langnas an automated rope-free mooring system, 'AutoMoor'. The system uses smart technologies to enable a faster berthing process and improve safety levels within the port environment. The port has international cruise ferry and domestic ro-ro ferry berths and is situated in the Baltic Sea, on the archipelago of Aland which has ferry traffic between Sweden and Finland via Aland. 

The Freeport of Riga announced that it held a ceremony at the beginning of 2019 to commission two piers, ZO-1 and ZO-2, after the redevelopment, which took almost two years. The projects consists of expansion of both piers. The redevelopment project completed by SIA Rīgas Universālais Termināls (RUT) will allow maintaining long-term competitiveness and satisfying growing requirements of our customers by serving even larger ships at our well-suited piers.

The US Georgia Ports Authority has launched a Big Berth/Big Ship program, expected to allow the Port of Savannah to simultaneously handle six 14,000 TEU vessels by 2024. The program was unveiled by GPA Executive Director, Griff Lynch, during the Georgia Foreign Trade Conference, which took place on 3-5 February. 

India’s government was announced to have set aside USD 21 million in this 2019's budget as expenditure for the Iranian southeastern port of Chabahar growth. In October 2018, Iran, India and Afghanistan inked an agreement on transit of goods via Chabahar. 

Port Insight that started on November 20, is a collaboration between Port of Rotterdam Authority and TWTG, that focuses in the development of I-IoT solutions. Port Insight is developing the new service with which barges can be tracked across a large part of Europe. The service will be operational for the first clients in early 2019. 

South Africa's port of Durban resulted with an overall throughput of 2.975 million TEU, increased from the 2.699 million in 2017. That’s an rise of 276.000 TEU for the year, equal to over 10%, which will be a boost to Transnet Port Terminals (TPT). Nationally the increase on containers was 5.3% with the total for all ports reaching 4.833 million TEU, according to the Mercury.

Australian Port of Brisbane has announced the principal contractors for its AUD 158 million (USD 114.3 million) Brisbane International Cruise Terminal, paving the way for construction to begin in the coming months.  Cameron Dick, Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning stated that the 158 million reflect the future of the cruising industry in Queensland. 

The Port of Hamburg announced that the first contract with a volume of some EUR 9.5 million was awarded for the start of the Medemrinne, or trough, underwater dredged material disposal site (UDMDS) on Lower & Outer Elbe.