SMAG STS solution

The Port of Aarhus is confident that its lease agreement with MSC’s Terminal Investment Limited will proceed as planned, despite ongoing legal action from APM Terminals.

APM Terminals has turned to the court for clarity on the Port of Aarhus’s lease award to MSC, claiming the process was faulty and not transparent.

The Port of Aarhus will lease land to MSC’s TiL for a new 170,000 sqm container terminal, set to be fully operational by 2027.

The Port of Salalah has taken delivery of the first four cranes in a series of 10 super-post panamax STS cranes being manufactured by ZPMC. The remaining cranes will arrive at Oman’s largest container port in Q2 2024 with all units fully commissioned in the third quarter of the year.

As part of an Executive Order aimed at strengthening maritime cyber-security, the Biden Administration plans to invest over US$20B over the next five years in port infrastructure including funds for recreating the domestic port crane industry

Kalmar, which is part of Finland’s Cargotec group is to supply Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam with two fully electric and eight hybrid straddle carriers. The machines will be used in the company’s ECT Delta terminal and be delivered by the end of this year.