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17 2024-05 Sri Lanka container volumes rise near 50 per cent The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has reported a record 48 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in container volumes in the first quarter (Q1 2024).The total grew from 441,032 to 652,766 TEU. SLPA ascribed this spike to a number of issues, including the Red Sea crisis and its broader ramification...
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16 2024-05 Port of Antwerp-Bruges introduces world’s first methanol-powered tugboat The Port of Antwerp-Bruges has unveiled the Methatug, a methanol-powered tugboat that is part of the port’s fleet greening strategy and an important step towards becoming carbon neutral by 2050.The initiative is financed by the European research programme Horizon 2020 and it is part of the FASTW...
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11 2024-05 UK government implements anti-fouling shipping regulation The UK government has announced that the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) would increase ecological safeguards at sea through new laws controlling ship antifouling systems.The new UK regulation enforces an international agreement that prohibits the use of cybutryne in marine paints, which has...
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07 2024-05 Port of Tianjin to assist Colombo Port development The Port of Tianjin in China has expressed its willingness to assist in transforming the Port of Colombo, which is currently operating as a global container port, into a green port.On 29 April, a special delegation led by the Chairman of the Tianjin Port visited the Minister at the Ministry’s of...
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28 2024-04 German ports to introduce new digital import solution German seaports are launching a new standardised digital release process for containers imported, called “Secure Release Order.”This is intended to gradually replace the previously used PIN code-based process. Initiators DAKOSY and dbh expect to launch the introductory phase in the second half ...
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22 2024-04 APMT Gijon welcomes largest containership in port’s history APM Terminals (APMT) Gijón has successfully operated the largest containership ever to stop at the Port of El Musel on Spain’s north coast. The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Katyayni, a 275-metre-long, 40-metre-wide vessel, berthed at the terminal for 33 hours, loading and discha...
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