Rotterdam today officially opened the first phase of Maasvlakte 2, Europe’s largest container terminal hub, which is expected to unleash a fierce battle for cargo across the Le Havre-Hamburg port range at a time of sluggish traffic growth.
Port of Rotterdam
12 May 2013
ECT Delta Terminal and Euromax Terminal Rotterdam, both in the Netherlands, will receive maiden calls from three new ships next week...
29 Apr 2013
Rotterdam handled 4 percent more ocean containers in the first quarter than a year ago, but an increasing number were empty because of the continuing economic downturn across Europe.
17 Apr 2013
Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster and Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors have completed the first stage of the Port of Rotterdam Authority’s Maasvlakte 2 expansion in the Netherlands.
03 Apr 2013
Hackett Associates and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics’ latest Global Port Tracker study predicted that container handling in Europe’s North Range ports will increase a “meager” 1 percent in 2013...
26 Mar 2013
At the end of 2013, representatives of inland shipping operators, seaport terminals, depots, shipping companies, hinterland terminals, the Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure...
01 Mar 2013
Focusing on the use of liquefied natural gas as a marine fuel, an “LNG Fuelled Vessels Working Group” has been established with support from the International Association of Ports and Harbors’ World Ports Climate Initiative.
26 Feb 2013
Samskip has launched a new container shipping route for rural Iceland.
25 Feb 2013
The North European edition of the Global Port Tracker predicted that total European imports will decrease by 3.2 percent to 20.2 million 20-foot-equivalent units in 2013, while exports are forecasted to rise...
22 Feb 2013
APM Terminals, the terminal operating unit of A.P.
21 Jan 2013
Stockholm-based crane spreader manufacturer Bromma Conquip has contracted an order for 52 yard spreaders from the new DP World-led Rotterdam World Gateway terminal in the Netherlands.
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