Market Briefing from WorldCargo News Online

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LATEST WCN E-NEWSLETTER IN YOUR BROWSER Welcome to the latest eNewsletter from the publishers of WorldCargo News, the world's leading resource for international cargo professionals. Click here to view a sample issue of WorldCargo News and subscription information. Click here for information on advertising in print or online. Market Briefing New cranes for Yilport at Gemlik Turkish operator Yilport will soon receieve four more Paceco Portainers from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding at its "Gemport" facility... Click here for more PROMOTION Free White Paper - Calculating the Return On Investment of a Specialist Intermodal IT System This white paper from Real Asset Management provides crucial cost saving information for companies involved in container leasing, tank leasing, tank container operating and trailer leasing. It contains the information they need to assess the benefits of implementing a specialist software package and to compare costs against expensive in house systems, including sample ROI calculations, strategic benefits and cost considerations. Click here to request your free copy Bromma welcomes Sweframe copyright judgement A Swedish court has imposed personal fines on two Sweframe employees... Click here for more Rotterdam to increase tariffs by 1% The 2014 tariffs will be at the same level of 2008, says the port authority... Click here for more Cyberlogitec into Saudi Arabia The new King Abdullah Port has gone live with the OPUS TOS from Cyberlogitec.... Click here for more New boss for NSW Ports NSW Ports, the consortium that earlier this year bought 99-year leases of Port Botany and Port Kembla from the New South Wales Government for A$5.07B, has appointed Stephen Cleary as chief executive.... Click here for more HES Beheer for Hestya? HES Beheer has entered into exclusive negotiations with Hestya Energy BV regarding a possible public offer... Click here for more Miami grabs new cargo The first containers of grapes from Chile are now en-route to Miami.... Click here for more Savannah bounces back After losing volume in its 2013 fiscal year Savannah experienced a surge in throughput last month.... Click here for more Stena's Karlskrona rail freight hub Stena Line, Logent and Green Cargo are involved in a joint project with Karlskrona municipality to develop the port's intermodal rail capabilities... Click here for more Grangemouth gets the wind up Forth Ports plc has announced a 2-year partnership with Collett & Sons Ltd to serve the wind energy industry... Click here for more Marine highway dedicated Over 2,000 containers have been barged between Stockton and Oakland since the "M-580 Marine Highway" opened in June.... Click here for more Solent Stevedores into fruit handling Solent Stevedores has acquired the assets of Southampton Fruit Handling Ltd and will take over the running of its fruit terminal... Click here for more Cranes arrive at Rotterdam World Gateway The first four STS cranes should arrive in Rotterdam on Monday, 25 November... Click here for more TraPac budget blowout The Port of Los Angeles is in trouble over massive cost increases for the TraPac redevelopment that it approved without seeking approval from the City of Los Angeles... Click here for more APMT to go deeper in Zeebrugge The APM Terminals (APMT) Zeebrugge terminal will get 17.5m of water depth alongside almost 700m of quay wall after the port authority (MBZ) commissioned dredging for the south bank of the Albert II dock.... Click here for more Transnet seeks port tariff hike Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), which runs South Africa's main ports, is seeking to raise its tariffs in the 2014-15 fiscal year by 14.4%. Its request to the country's regulator of ports is substantially more than the nation's inflation rate and more than twice the amount requested last year (5.4%), which was rejected.... Click here for more Mixed half for terminal operators The first half of 2013 proved to be a mixed one for the world's leading international terminal operators (ITOs). Throughput levels and turnover increases over the period were generally slow, reflecting ongoing difficulties in the economies of northern Europe and North America and quieter performances in certain emerging markets.... Click here for more RFID reefer monitoring for TecPlata IDENTEC Solutions has announced that ICTSI subsidiary TecPlata will use the RAMS Reefer Asset Management System at its new container terminal in Port La Plata in Argentina.... Click here for more Walvis Bay down to one China Harbour Engineering (CHEC) is the only company to have been approved for the contract to construct a new container terminal at Walvis Bay in Namibia.... Click here for more DPW implements security management system DP World, UAE Region, has become the first port operator in the Middle East to successfully implement the Regional Security Management System standards and achieve regional ISO 28000:2007 certification from Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA).... Click here for more Rapid growth at Tanger Med The volume of container traffic handled by Tanger Med has increased by 39% this year, reaching 1.6M TEU for the twelve months to the end of August.... Click here for more Kenya gears up for gateway role In late August, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) commissioned its new Berth 19 in the port of Mombasa. Reclaimed from the sea, the 240m wharf, which cost approximately US$67M to build, expands the port's container berthing line to 840m, allowing it to process three Panamax containerships simultaneously.... Click here for more Eurogate gets the wind up An area of the underused Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven (CTW), operated by Eurogate, will be used to handle, store and assemble rotor stars for the 400MW Global Tech I offshore wind park, located around 110 km off Germany's North Sea coast, on behalf of Areva Wind. Overall responsibility for this project lies with BLG, which co-owns Eurogate and signed the contract with Areva Wind.... Click here for more Geelong interest deepens Hot on the heels of an ambitious plan to more than triple throughput at the Australian port of Geelong in Victoria, the state government has announced a channel deepening programme to provide better access.... Click here for more Changes at the top down under Two key positions in the Australian ports and terminals sector are changing hands.... Click here for more Batista out of Brazil's superports Eike Batista, who was once Brazil's richest entrepreneur but has seen his fortune collapse over the past 12 months, has pulled back from his various "superport" projects in Brazil by selling shares and relinquishing directorships in the holding companies involved in the projects.... Click here for more Global Ports to acquire NCC As forecast in the June 2013 issue of WorldCargo News (p1), Global Ports Investments (GPI), in which APM Terminals (APMT) and Russia's N-trans are co-controlling shareholders, each with a 37.5% stake, is to acquire the Russian operations of National Container Company (NCC), currently controlled by Andrei Kozbar and Vitaliy Yuzhilin (Quantum Ports/ First Quantum).... Click here for more Cornelder to add in Beira Dutch firm Cornelder has announced plans to construct a new container terminal and a fertiliser terminal at the Port of Beira in Mozambique's Sofala Province. The two facilities will be developed on a new 600m long quay. Carlos Mesquita, the chief executive of Cornelder de Mocambique (CdM), announced that construction is expected to take 18 months.... Click here for more Schramm takes over Moorburg coal handling Brunsbuttel Ports GmbH, part of the Schramm group, has extended its logistics service range by assuming responsibility for the supply of raw materials and rehandling of outbound disposal materials at the Vattenfall Moorburg/Hamburg power station, which will consume more than 4 Mtpa of hard coal.... Click here for more Decongestion strategies for Nigeria's ports Two new strategies have been implemented to reduce congestion at Nigerian ports. Firstly, after years of wrangling, overdue containers are now being forcibly removed from Nigerian terminals.... Click here for more Terex for Transnet Terex has delivered 13 new SC644 E Noell straddle carriers to South African transport utility Transnet about six weeks ahead of schedule. The diesel-electric carriers, which cost a combined R126M (US$12.86M), are to be used at Pier 2 at Durban Container Terminal (DCT). They are one tranche of a larger contract for straddle carriers from Terex that, as previously reported, is being supplied in batches over the period 2011-13.... Click here for more Konecranes books more CSXIT RTGs Konecranes has reported a repeat RTG order from CSX Intermodal Terminals (CSXIT) in the US, made up of four machines (plus one on option). The first order for three 16-wheel RTGs was placed in June last year. The newly-ordered units will be in place by October 2014, three at CSXIT's facility in Valleyfield, Canada, and one in Chicago.... Click here for more ICTSI/PSA team up in Colombia International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) and PSA International have signed an agreement that will see them jointly build and operate a new container terminal and ancillary facilities at the Port of Aguadulce in Buenaventura, Colombia.... Click here for more Nacala on the rise The new operator of the port of Nacala in Mozambique is on course to record a 40% increase in the volume of cargo handled over the past year.... Click here for more Lagos levies new box landing fees The Lagos State Government in Nigeria has imposed an additional set of charges on inbound containers moved through its ports.... Click here for more ICHCA to host CTU packing seminar ICHCA International, the NGO association for the global cargo handling industry, will be hosting a practical seminar, Understanding the new IMO/ILO/UNECE Code of Practice for Packing of Cargo Transport Units (CTUs), in London on 22 October.... 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