It is now more essential than ever to maintain active port terminal operations. With this in mind, Prodevelop has secured a new client in the private container terminal sector, Tenerife Container Terminal (TCTenerife). Together, Prodevelop and TCT...
The Port of Long Beach has been awarded a $14.5 million grant from the US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration to help fund the ‘Terminal Island Wye Track Realignment’ railroad project. In a statement, the port said “dramatically...
APM Terminals (APMT) has said it will make extra storage space available across its North America operations to ease congestion in the region, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, APMT said operations at Pier 400 Los Angeles, Cali...
With the rise of consumer demands, port-centric logistics (PCL) continue to be a driving theme for many ports as they look to optimize their operations to suit the new consumer climate. In January, Port Technology International (PTI) launched it...
The British Ports Association (BPA) has explored how ports are keeping the UK supplied during the lockdown and difficult circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard Ballantyne, chief executive of the BPA, provided an update on how the...
A sudden shift in demand for Swedish imported goods in the wake of the COVID-19 has led to a need for interim storage of goods that have already been ordered and are on their way to Sweden, mainly in containers. This has emerged following ongoing...
HAROPA maritime traffic for the first quarter of 2020 is down 12.8%, 20.38 million tonnes, compared to 2019, the French port group has announced. Despite the context and confinement that has occurred because of COVID-19, HAROPA ports (Le Havre, Ro...
The transport of containers by barge from and to the Port of Hamburg is picking up speed, the port has said in a statement. Contrary to the nationwide result with a decline of 4.1%, the Port of Hamburg recorded an increase of 13% in container tran...
India is beginning to ease the backlog of vessels and containers that had congested its major ports as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic’s strain on the supply chain. The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) and the Port of Chennai, the first and th...
