May29No Comments
Garcetti nominates shipping executive as Port of Los Angeles director
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Tuesday nominated a veteran shipping company executive to become director of the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s busiest harbor for container cargo. If approved by the City Council, Gene Seroka, 49, head of the...
Jan27No Comments
Work begins on world’s largest containership
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has this week began building the first of five 19,000 TEU containerships on behalf of China Shipping Container Lines (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. The first vessel, due for delivery in November this year, will become the world’s...
Jan27No Comments
UK’s Largest Container Railfreight Depot Just One Year From Opening
Dubai Port London Gateway is a £1.5bn development covering 560 acres on the north bank of The Thames on the site of the former Shellhaven refinery near Stanford Le Hope. It has, literally, the capacity to change the Railfreight container business and...
Oct16No Comments
Dawn of the super-ports? Mammoth ships force ports to adapt
On the northern banks of the Thames Estuary outside London, a soft tide laps against the perimeter of Britain’s latest multi-billion dollar development project. Situated just 25 miles downriver from the ornate splendor of the Houses of Parliament...
Sep27No Comments
Big ships do not always mean faster port handling
The maiden voyage of the 18,000 teu vessel Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller has been accompanied by much fanfare about record container handling productivity at various ports. Whilst it is generally true that larger vessels can facilitate faster port handling,...
Sep10No Comments
Will City Hall Torpedo the Port of Los Angeles?
LA WATCHDOG - The Port of Los Angeles is a major economic component of the Southern California economy, responsible, along with Port of Long Beach, for economic activity that supports over 900,000 jobs. However, the Port has run into strong headwinds...
Aug15No Comments
Week of the giants in port of Rotterdam
Thanks to its unique depth, the largest vessels in the world will be moored in the port of Rotterdam this week. On Friday 16 August, all attention will focus on the first visit of the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller. With a capacity of 18,000 TEU (twenty-foot...