Ports of Amsterdam down 5.1% in H1 2018

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Throughput at Amsterdam proper and IJmuiden, the main two cargo handling areas, fell by 5.1% to 49.5 Mt in the first half year. Amsterdam it...

Checking out progress at Vado

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A delegation from Cosco Shipping Ports recently visited the site of the new semi-automated terminal in the Port of SavonaVado, to check on p...

Automation win for ZPMC

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ZPMC has won a yard automation contract with Dalian Container Terminal (DCT). The work includes “yard automation restructuring” and retr...

Feeder ships in demand

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The order book for smaller ships that can be used in the feeder trades and in intra-regional markets is picking up. An estimated 40 ships in...

Consortium develops new heavy lift ship

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A consortium comprising of the heavy lift shipping company Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT), vessel design group Ulstein Design & Solution BV,...

Nigerian EC bans lifted

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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has lifted temporary bans that it imposed on four shipping lines using the country’s ports. The local o...

Expansion in Klaipeda

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Lithuania’s Klaipedos Smelte, which is part of MSC’s terminal network through TIL, has forecast that it will handle between 320,000 and ...

The horticultural view

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Eline van den Berg, project manager for logistics strategy and business development at Royal FloraHolland, says of the flower industry: “T...

Preparing for analytics

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This month, ORBCOMM announced a “new cloud-based analytics service” that it is offering with its telematics platform to allow customers ...

Driving value from digitalisation

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Reefer machinery and systems can generate vast amounts of data, but the industry is still coming to terms with how to use that information t...

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