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Garcetti nominates shipping executive as Port of Los Angeles director

gridadmin — Thu, 29 May 2014 17:56:26 +0000

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 Americas division of American President Lines, will replace Geraldine Knatz, whose resignation became effective in December.

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Work begins on world’s largest containership

gridadmin — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:23:27 +0000

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 largest containership eclipsing Maersk’s Triple-E series of vessels which boast an 18,340 TEU capacity. South Korea’s HHI, the world’s biggest ship builder, held a steel cutting ceremony to celebrate the landmark occasion on Monday.

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UK’s Largest Container Railfreight Depot Just One Year From Opening

gridadmin — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:21:05 +0000

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 directly challenges Southampton and Felixstowe docks.

The new port is scheduled to open for business in Quarter 4 next year with trials commencing in as little as six months. From day 1, Carston Hinne DB Schenker MD said, DB Schenker will be operating four daily trains to the port which is just 25 miles from London. The message given out at an Industry preview day was that Rail services to and from London Gateway will offer regular, easy and efficient movement of goods to and from the major commercial and population centres across the UK.

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Dawn of the super-ports? Mammoth ships force ports to adapt

gridadmin — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:22:31 +0000

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 and the suave sophistication of the Shard Tower, the DP World London Gateway is a new deep-sea container port that will welcome its first vessel at the beginning of November.

The 995 acre site has taken more than three years to construct, carries a price tag of £1.5 billion ($2.4 billion) and has the advanced technological capabilities to host the ever increasing heft of the world’s biggest ships.

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Big ships do not always mean faster port handling

gridadmin — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:23:08 +0000

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, the correlation between ship size and speed of port handling is not necessarily linear.

The move by all major carriers towards ever larger vessels in the pursuit of economies of scale is not automatically matched by similar advantages in terms of the speed of port handling. For shipping lines, what matters is turnaround time from vessel arrival to vessel departure – and essentially this means berth moves per hour across the ship. A key factor is gantry crane intensity across the ship, i.e. the maximum and average number of cranes deployed during the port call.

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Will City Hall Torpedo the Port of Los Angeles?

gridadmin — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:56:15 +0000

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 as the volume of imported containers has slipped 6% over the last twelve months.

Even exports of loaded containers are down 12% this year after almost doubling over the last ten years.

These lower volumes, both of which are about 10% below their peak volumes, should serve as a wakeup call to the management of the Port, its Board of politically appointed commissioners, Mayor Eric Garcetti, and the City Council, especially as the competitive environment for international waterborne trade is increasing, eating into the Port’s market share and revenues and the incomes of Southern Californians.

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Week of the giants in port of Rotterdam

gridadmin — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:20:18 +0000

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 containers), a length of 399 metres and a width of 59 metres, this vessel is by far the largest container ship in the world.

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