Hapag-Lloyd is celebrating the installation of its 700,000th tracking device, an important moment on the company’s path to creating the world’s largest smart container fleet. On Monday, at the company’s headquarters in Hamburg, Germany’s Federal Minister of Digital and Transport, Dr Volker Wissing, personally installed the device on a container.Continue Reading
Designing shiploading systems is never easy, especially when it comes to finding the best possible solution for a particular operation. Quite often, port terminals are forced to implement a specific solution due to pre-existing conditions — such as the availability of space, existing and planned infrastructure — as well asContinue Reading
Associated British Ports (ABP) Port of Hull welcomed the delivery of a new Volvo L150H to its dry bulk handling facility North Gap. Part of ABP’s ongoing investment to improve the infrastructure across the Humber Ports’ the new shovel is more efficient than the former G-series, achieving up to 15%Continue Reading
Since the beginning, Heyl & Patterson has been achieving milestones by providing high quality custom-engineered solutions that industries worldwide trust to keep their business’s moving forward. Founded in 1887, Heyl & Patterson has continued to be an industry behemoth in the design and construction of world-class transfer equipment for customersContinue Reading
RAM Spreaders: Dry Bulk Handling Impact Over a decade ago, RAM Spreaders introduced their first rotating spreader for dry bulk material handling. Today, the RAM Revolver operates on every continent, with 15 units already in Africa. Its success is attributed to extensive global aftersales support and the sturdy design ofContinue Reading
SIG is one of the European most important producers of elevator as well as rubber conveyor belts. With an experience of more than 50 years manufacturing SIG can easily supply high quality made in Italy synthetic and steel rubber belts worldwide. Concerning the production process, our factory has aContinue Reading
CMA CGM’s proposed acquisition of Bolloré Logistics could be “poison” for small and medium-sized freight forwarders, squeezed in an ever-tightening market sector. According to Xeneta chief analyst Peter Sand, major carriers like CMA CGM and Maersk are continuing to “enter the traditional home turf of freight forwarders”. Now, in aContinue Reading
Digital transformation is a key facet for driving fundamental change in business today. Like everything, there are pros and cons however digitalisation is a path you must embrace sooner or later to enable your port or terminal to adapt to the complexities of the global market. Many organizations in theContinue Reading
PACT is a new service on the online port portal MyPort for outgoing sea vessels from agents and terminals in the Amsterdam port. Sea shipping By sharing smart data with each other, we make the port more predictable and aim to reduce delays. The initiative originated during a Port PerformanceContinue Reading
According to the data of the Freeport of Riga Authority, forestry and timber industry cargo were the largest cargo group transshipped in the port of Riga last year, the said cargo being handled at 15 stevedoring company terminals. In 2022, the transshipped 5.5 million tons of wood products accounted forContinue Reading
