Port Houston experienced solid February volumes compared to the same month last year, with a total of 313,452 TEUs handled during the month, marking a 15% increase. However, the port…
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AD Ports Group is launching a new weekly container shipping service intended to improve connections and facilitate trade between the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait. Containerships will operate from AD Ports’ Khalifa Port in the UAE to Hamad Port in Qatar and Shuwaikh and/ or Shuaiba in Kuwait.
Furthermore, AD Ports Group will provide customers with a digital appointment booking system for the new shipping service, through the Advanced Trade & Logistics Platform (ATLP), developed and operated by Maqta...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/kuwait-shipping-services-set-to-improve-regional-connectivity/
His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan recently officially inaugurated Mugharraq Port in the Al Dhafra Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The port serves as a hub for offshore, oil and gas, general cargo, bulk and break-bulk handling services and has been the recipient of significant investments to enhance capabilities in recent years.
The improvements at Mugharraq Port include an additional 400m of quay wall, increased load bearing capacity and the addition of yard space and...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/sheikh-hamdan-inaugurates-mugharraq-port/
A concession agreement to develop and operate a multi-purpose port in Safaga in Egypt, as well as further agreements relating to ports located in Egypt’s Red Sea region and the Mediterranean Sea, has been signed by AD Ports Group with relevant authorities.
The new Safaga terminal will be developed over an area of around 810,000 m2 and is scheduled to be operational in the second quarter of 2025. Featuring a 1000m long quay wall, it will have the capacity to handle 5 million tonnes of dry bulk...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/safaga-port-concession-awarded/
Optimising port time requires not just data but ensuring all vessels at a terminal are on board
Sohar Port and Freezone recently held its Annual Business Reception at The Chedi Muscat, where it revealed some “excellent” performance achievements and meaningful contributions to the community over the past year, including an impressive growth in total throughput of 11.3% in 2022, reaching 77 million tons. Dry bulk and liquid bulk increased by 9.6% and 25% respectively while container throughput remained steady at 725,000 TEU.
This success is mirrored within the Freezone where total investment...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/sohar-port-highlights-2022-achievements/
King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam has achieved yet another milestone by handling 18,553 TEU on a single vessel. This is highest individual throughput ever recorded to date across all Saudi ports.
Beating the previous record of 18,021 TEU set last year, the historic feat was achieved aboard CSCL Indian Ocean, a 400m long, 20,000 TEU capacity containership arriving from the Far East, at the container terminal operated by Saudi Global Ports. According to the Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani), “The latest...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/new-record-for-dammam-port/
by John Konrad (gCaptain) As concerns over the potential use of Chinese-made cranes for gathering information on U.S. military equipment continue to grow, Members of the House China Select Committee,…
https://gcaptain.com/us-congress-moves-to-ban-chinese-crane-software/
By Arijit Ghosh (Bloomberg) Transnet SOC is probing the existence of illegal freight trains that are depriving South Africa’s state-owned rail operator of revenue. The logistics firms that’s struggling to ship…
https://gcaptain.com/ghost-trains-hobble-south-african-ports/