Scheldt deepening breakthrough

Busy times at Liebherr as the company delivers one LPS 600 portal slewing crane and secures a new order for an LHM 550 mobile harbour crane.

Konecranes plans to acquire Rotterdam’s Peinemann Port Services and Container Handling, pending approval from Dutch regulators.

TMA Multimodal BV expands its container handling network with the acquisition of terminals in Utrecht and Lelystad in the Netherlands.

Finnlines is set to launch a new short sea freight service this month (Sept ’24) from Finland to Peel Ports London Medway and other destinations around Europe

A fire on the Silver Sun at a dry dock in Antwerp trapped 25 people due to heavy smoke but was quickly controlled, prompting a medical emergency plan.

The relative good behaviour will be related to the EUR 1,000 per person fine that Antwerp-Bruges and North Sea Port have secured before court earlier this week.