The Port of Vancouver USA has had a record-breaking year in 2020 booking the highest returns in its 108-year history. Revenues totalled USD 50 million, which is a 15% increase from the previous year. Wind...Read more
The City of Antwerp and the City of Bruges have reached an agreement to merge their ports. The combined port, to be named Port of Antwerp-Bruges, won’t climb the ladder in ranks but will further...Read more
The Port of Grenaa in Denmark is readying itself for a large port expansion which will add 17,000 sqm of port area, 350 metres of quay, a heavy-load area and increase the available shore power...Read more
The UK and EU are in emergency talks to maintain freight traffic to and from the continent after several European countries shut down travel and transport due to the high number of Covid-19 cases and...Read more
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has unveiled plans to develop a new quay at the South Bank on the River Tees to help make Teesside the UK’s premier offshore wind location. More than EUR 100...Read more
Breakbulk Americas is the latest event to have been cancelled as the coronavirus pandemic remains cause to prohibit events and restrict international travel. Organizer Hyve Group has rescheduled the event to return to Houston from...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – With the 2600-metric-tonne Skyhook, Huisman has designed and built the largest Slewing Jib Quayside Crane in the world. It has now lifted its first batch of offshore wind monopiles. The monopiles with...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – The wind-turbine project in Zeebrugge is taking shape as the first of eleven wind turbines got assembled on Friday the 21st of August. The parts of the eleven new wind turbines arrived...Read more
The Port of Bilbao has recorded strong growth in the throughput of wind energy components in the first half of 2020. Despite the coronavirus, which caused many manufacturers to temporarily shut down factories, volumes rose...Read more
Throughput in the port of Rotterdam decreased by 9.1 per cent in the first half of the year compared with 2019, amounting to 218.9 million tonnes. Container throughput was only 3.3 per cent down on...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – PD Ports has won a major pipeline contract with global oilfield services company Saipem to service the Tolmount gas field, one of the largest undeveloped gas discoveries in the Southern North Sea.Read more
PSA has invested heavily in its Breakbulk Terminal in the port of Antwerp in the past few months. The terminal operator has added several new cranes to increase its steel handling capabilities. Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Breakbulk event Antwerp XL has been further postponed to 10-12 March 2021. Belgian restrictions in force to August 30th make it “extremely difficult” to plan and promote the event, which had initially...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Effective May 2020, HEBO Maritiemservice has expanded into the port of Amsterdam by opening a permanent office. The company offers lifting capacity of up to 800 tonnes for project cargo, breakbulk and...Read more
In light of the most recent Covid-19 developments, the Project Cargo Summit 2020 will be hosted as a digital conference, while the physical exhibition and conference are being postponed to a safer date in February...Read more
The Port of Rotterdam expects throughput may fall by up to twenty per cent this year due to the corona crisis. “So yes, results will be bad”, says Allard Castelein, CEO of the Rotterdam Port...Read more
Cargo throughput in the port of Rotterdam fell by 9.3% to 112.4 million tonnes in the first quarter. The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in significantly lower demand and a large number of cancelled sailings. The...Read more
Antwerp’s breakbulk sector has taken another massive beating in the first quarter of 2020, dropping a staggering 27.8%. The Antwerp port authority says “the vicissitudes of world trade since mid-2019 continue to weigh on the...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Maritime consultant Gard is warning of increased cyber risks now most employees are working from home or other remote locations. “Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic often lead malicious cyber actors to take...Read more
North Sea Port’s breakbulk and ro/ro volumes dropped significantly in the first quarter of 2020. The decrease is mainly a result of the global economic environment and not of the corona crisis. “But the impact...Read more