Landside solution for SEA Transport

In 2023, sea transport accounted for 47.4% of the EU’s €2,406.3 billion trade with non-EU countries, significantly surpassing air and road transport values.

As part of its drive to lower emissions, Hutchison Ports Felixstowe has placed orders for 48 batterypowered terminal tractors and 17 zero-emissions, remote-controlled RTGs, which it refers to as ‘ReARTGs’

2M Alliance members Maersk and MSC have announced that, for the next three months, their TA2 transatlantic service will call at Peel Ports’ controlled Liverpool2 in the northwest of the UK, rather than Felixstowe.

Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has become the first port in the UK to handle over 1M TEU by rail in a single year

Following a recent port tender (WorldCargo News, September 2017, p53), Bromma, part of Cargotec, has reported that it has won an order from the Port of Felixstowe for 13 YSX40E allelectric yard crane spreaders, as replacements for ageing spreaders supplied for the port’s RTGs by another vendor 17 years ago.

The £60.4m scheme, jointly funded by Network Rail and Hutchison Ports, will allow up to 47 freight train pairs to be run daily in and out of the port