Marine terminals

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Ed DeNike has little confidence in drayage appointment systems at container terminals but says SSA Containers has speeded the flow of containers by sorting them for truckers to pick up as a block instead of one by one.

APM Terminals has formed a 50-50 joint venture with infrastructure investor Brookfield Asset Management for ownership of APMT’s Port Elizabeth, N.J., container terminal at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Eurogate, Europe’s largest container stevedore, last year handled more than 14 million standard containers for the first time since the global recession in 2008, as a strong performance by its Mediterranean terminals outweighed a decline in its domestic German market.

HHLA boosted its share of ocean container traffic in the Hamburg-Le Havre range in 2013 and posted a significant growth in rail and road traffic to the European hinterland.

After more than five years of inertia in the marine terminal business, the industry is beginning to churn. Some investors who spent billions of dollars in the mid-2000s to buy into container terminals want out, while others see this as a good time to invest in the industry.

DP World handled nearly 55 million TEUs at its global terminals in 2013, down 1.9 percent from the previous year’s 56.1 million TEUs, due to the sale of a facility in Hong Kong.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, India’s largest private port infrastructure developer, reported its consolidated net profit in the third quarter of fiscal year 2013-14 was $72 million, surging 25 percent year-over-year from $58 million.

PSA International said container throughput at its global facilities in 2013 expanded 2.9 percent year-over-year to nearly 62 million TEUs.

Carrix Inc. is boosting its financial strength and positioning its SSA Marine subsidiary to react quickly to opportunities for container terminal, bulk terminal and rail facility expansion in North America and overseas.

New bridges, marine terminals and channel deepening get the headlines, but the key to ports’ success may lie in more mundane details such as better information flow and reduced delays for trucks.

Russia’s Global Ports has completed the $1.6 billion acquisition of its domestic rival NCC to create Eastern Europe’s biggest container terminal operator.

Marine terminals efficiently handle the majority of trucks that call at their facilities each day, but they continue to struggle with the problem cases where some truckers wait in line for two hours or longer.

Technology can help speed the flow of containers handled by a terminal, but technology alone can’t solve the crunch, one terminal executive told JOC's first Port Productivity Seminar.

NEWARK, N.J. — Costs at North American ports will continue to rise unless berth, yard and gate productivity increases enough to handle all the big container ships coming their way. And container lines likewise will see their port costs rise, even if current productivity levels stay the same.

The latest vessel productivity numbers derived and analyzed from the JOC Port Productivity database should be welcome news for marine terminal operators and port authorities. Productivity at many terminals improved in the first six months of 2013 compared to the previous numbers covering all of 2012.

CMA CGM has nominated Laurent Martens as vice president of its port terminals management subsidiary Terminal Link, effective today.

Chassisfinder.com, an Internet-based chassis reservation exchange owned and operated by Chassis Finder, has expanded its coverage to include locations in or near...

Organic volume growth of just 1.5 percent in the first nine months of this year at ICTSI’s global roster of container terminals was below expectations “considering its presence largely in emerging market economies,” according to analysis from Drewry Maritime Equity Research.

APM Terminals boosted third quarter profit to $203 million, from $156 million a year earlier, driven by sharply higher earnings at associated companies and joint ventures.

South Korea’s Incheon Port Authority and PSA International have signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate long-term, strategic cooperation.

Container volumes at West Coast ports increased 2 percent in September compared to the same month last year, according to numbers published on the website of the Pacific Maritime Association.

Terminal operating giant PSA has further increased its investment in Chinese ports with its first major deal in the Yangtze River Delta.

DP World handled 14.2 million 20-foot-equivalent units in the third quarter, a 2.4 percent year-over-year increase that was driven by an improved performance at...

Representatives of waterfront employers, drayage companies and the International Longshoremen’s Association said there’s an urgent need to improve the way intermodal chassis are supplied in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, India’s largest private port infrastructure developer, reported its consolidated net income in the second fiscal quarter, which ended Sept. 30, was $56 million, rising 24 percent year-over-year.

Four super-post-Panamax cranes that arrived at the Port of Savannah in June are now fully operational at Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal.

APM Terminals and Rotterdam dock unions have agreed on a labor contract for Europe’s biggest container terminal, which will open next year.

SHENZHEN, China — JOC Group Inc., parent company of The Journal of Commerce and joc.com, on Wednesday recognized APM Terminals Yokohama as the world’s most productive terminal for 2012.

APM Terminals has signed a $460 million contract with a Dutch consortium to build the first phase of a deep water container terminal in Costa Rica.

Maher Terminals will be open on the Columbus Day holiday and has frozen demurrage charges and extended free storage time for Thursday, when renewed computer problems stalled truck traffic.

New York Container Terminal has ordered two rubber-tire gantry cranes and two rail-mounted gantry cranes from Konecranes for use in waste handling in New York.

Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries has commissioned Kalmar to increase the operating height of four ship-to-shore cranes for APM Terminals Algeciras in southern Spain.

Liebherr Container Cranes has received an order from APM Terminals Gothenburg in Sweden for two ship-to-shore cranes and two rail-mounted gantry cranes.

Russia’s Global Ports reported its first-half net income fell 25.9 percent from a year ago to $53.7 million on stagnant container traffic and lower oil products shipments.

New York Container Terminal has entered into a 20-year contract with Covanta Energy to move municipal solid waste in sealed containers through the Staten Island container facility, beginning in March 2015.

Gulftainer has named Peter Ford its new group chief operating officer.

Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi, which includes Khalifa Port, is establishing a representative office in Mumbai, India, to tap growing global markets.

DP World booked a 9.1 percent increase in first half profit but warned the outlook remains uncertain and challenging in some regions.

Cosco Pacific more than tripled its first half profit from a year ago, boosted by a one-off gain from selling its stake in container manufacturer China International Marine Containers.