Florida’s Port Everglades has received three Super Post-Panamax container gantry cranes. The port authority said that the cranes are reportedly the largest low-profile container gantry cranes ever designed and built. The new cranes are part of the port’s $3 billion 20-Year Master/Vision Plan Update,
Jeddah Port’s Red Sea Gateway Terminal has taken delivery of two remote-controlled Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes, and 10 hybrid-Rubber-Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGs), as part of its planned expansion. Namely the terminal aims to double its annual container throughput capacity to 5.2 million TEUs by 2023. T
The France-headquartered Ideol has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with the Port of Cromarty Firth in Scotland to cooperate for the floating offshore wind sector. The agreement will see Ideol and its future local construction partners use the port’s land and firth berthing sites and cooperate toward
A total of 41 Indian seafarers have been stranded on two ships for months unable to dock in Chinese ports and carry out crew changes amid heated tensions between the governments of China and Australia. The seafarers got in the middle of a debate between the two countries exacerbated by the calls fro
NextDecade Corporation has selected Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation to perform essential improvements to the Brownsville Ship Channel.
LOC Mexico, a subsidiary of marine and engineering consultancy LOC Group has secured its third contract this year from Permaducto, an enterprise part of the Mexican oilfield services and infrastructure development firm Protexa. Under the contract, LOC Mexico will provide marine warranty survey (MWS)
Windthrust Ltd., a subsidiary of National Ports Corporation, has revealed plans for a combined self-propelled floating port and installation vessel for offshore wind turbines, foundations and substations. Oceandock LX’s 60,000m2 deck space and onboard storage facility allow for the components to be
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the U.S. facilities increased in September, DoE’s latest report shows.
The Gothenburg Port Authority wants to cut carbon emissions at the port by promoting the use of greener construction equipment and methods in future construction projects. The port announced plans to include new procurement stipulations for selected contracts in order to cut carbon emissions at the
The UK government has launched the bidding process for the first seven Freeports in England.
U.S. Congress members from New York State, Jerrold Nadler and Nydia M. Velázquez, have sent a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in support of the Empire Wind offshore wind project, more specifically its Port Infrastructure Improvement Plan (PIIP) which would set up an offshore wind hub at the
If Equinor’s bids are successful at New York State’s latest offshore wind solicitation, that could lead to creation of up to 350 jobs related to manufacturing of wind turbine components at the Port of Albany in upstate New York. Namely, the developer included the Port of Albany in its proposals rece
LNG exports from the three liquefaction plants located on Curtis Island off Gladstone edged up when compared to the corresponding month in 2019.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the U.S. liquefaction facilities have slipped over the previous week.
