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4ALLPORTS News Update December 2017
Port of Tilbury submits expansion application News in brief:
ed and exported cars, Port of Antwerp to temporarily
as well as an increase manage Cotonou: Port of Ant-
in ferry traffic, which werp International has been
carries consumer appointed by the Council of Min-
isters of the West African country
goods, perishables
of Benin to modernise the Port of
(food and drink) and
Cotonou. The Port of Cotonou is
steel between Europe the economic heart of Benin,
and the UK. handling an annual freight volume
It is envisaged that of around 12 million tonnes.
Tilbury2 will be opera-
Hupac connects Zeebrugge and
tional in Q2 2020 and
Novara: Intermodal rail operator
will act as a satellite of
Hupac has started a new rail
the main port. It will connection between C.Ro Ports
comprise of a roll on/ Zeebrugge and Novara in North-
Image source: Forth Ports
roll off (ro/ro) ferry ern Italy. The rail service also
terminal for importing offers the possibility to connect
The Port of Tilbury, one Tilbury2 is central to in the past ten years and exporting contain- with CLdN’s ro/ro destinations in
ers and trailers as well the United Kingdom and Ireland.
of London’s major ports, the Port of Tilbury’s and is projected to
has submitted an appli- £1bn investment pro- double the volume as a facility for im- Port Canaveral reaches new
cation for a develop- gramme, 2012-20. This across the quay (from porting, processing, depths: Port Canaveral has com-
ment consent order investment also in- 16million to 32million manufacturing and pleted the deepening of the West
(DCO) to the Planning cludes the UK’s largest tonnes) and triple the distributing construc- Turning Basin, which now allows
Inspectorate to build a warehouse at the direct employment tion materials. deeper draft access to the Ports
Furthermore it will container cargo facility operated
new terminal adjacent port’s second exten- (from 3,500 to 12,000
by GT USA at North Cargo Berth 5
to the current port in sion site — the 70-acre jobs) over the next 10- include a storage area
and 6. The six month project
Thurrock. London Distribution 15 years. for a variety of goods, deepened the West Turning Basin
The proposed new port, Park — for Amazon Expansion is needed to including exported and to a depth of 43 feet.
known as Tilbury2, will UK, which began oper- cope with rising de- imported cars, and
be built on a 152-acre ating this autumn. mand for construction host a new national Arken Combi Terminal begins
operations: The Arken Combi
site which was part of Tilbury Port Authority materials and aggre- strategic rail and road
Terminal begun operations at the
the former Tilbury Pow- stated it has doubled gates from the UKs connection into the
Port of Gothenburg last week.
er Station. the size of its business building sector, import- site. The Port Authority stated that
already more freight has been
Gdansk gets EU support handled than at the old terminal,
which has been replaced com-
pletely. The terminal area is
The Polish Port of thority applied to the from the CEF Blending our private partners who
65,000 square metres in size and
Gdansk has secured European Commission priority, amounting to signed letters of intent.” has seven rail tracks. The whole
funding from the EU for funds for an infra- 20% of the total sum, The Port of Gdansk has facility is electrified, and is locat-
is a considera- already received funding ed beside the ro/ro terminals
transport funding pro- structure project
gramme Connecting which includes the ble financial injection for other investments New investment at Port of Mo-
Europe Facility (CEF) for construction of the which will make it possi- within the framework of bile: The Alabama State Port
ble to begin work in this instrument, includ- Authority and APM Terminals
construction of a deep- Polnocne deepwater
boards of directors in separate
water quay. quay by the peninsular 2018. ing the modernisation of
actions have approved a $49.5m
As many as 68 projects breakwater at the Out- Lukasz Greinke, Presi- the fairway and expan- expansion of the container facility
from the Member States er Port in Gdansk. It dent of the Board of the sion of the quays at the at the Port of Mobile. The Phase 3
Port of Gdansk Authori- Inner Port or the expan- expansion includes a dock exten-
applied for support from aims to develop the
sion and an additional 20 acres of
the programme, out of quay and the area ty, said: “The construc- sion of the road and
yard to accommodate an annual
which 39 were selected. along the peninsular tion of this new quay will railway network at the throughput capacity of 650,000
Port of Gdansk is set to breakwater to add allow us to increase the Outer Port. The total TEU.
receive €20m from the new berths for ships. Ports throughput capaci- amount of EU funds for
2017 CEF Transport The projects funding, ty and gain a new uni- the PGA, including the
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Blending MAP Call com- in the form of a non- versal deepwater quay, support mentioned the 4AllPorts news pages:
petition. The Port Au- refundable subsidy the use of which has above, comes to about www.4allports.com
already been declared by €142m.
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4ALLPORTS News Update December 2017
Québec Port Authority plans expansion
The Québec Port Au- Lawrence, the project needed to carry out ports is completely 2020 expansion project
thority (QPA) has an- could potentially cre- this major project. changing the land- will have a major impact
nounced its plan to ate a new international With its water depth of scape of commercial on the economy by cre-
build a container termi- economic hub geared 15m and full intermo- shipping. This new ating a new continental
nal at the site of the toward logistics, distri- dality, Québec City has 15m standard makes it deep-water logistics
Beauport 2020 project. bution centres, and a distinctive advantage harder for the St. Law- hub. The governments
The QPA explained that new businesses, ac- in the St. Lawrence– rence, as it currently of Québec and Canada
the initiative is the cul- cording the QPA. Great Lakes Trade Cor- stands, to compete must offer their unmiti-
mination of a lengthy In a speech to the Qué- ridor, stated QPA. with American ports in gated support for the
process to identify eco- bec City Chamber of Mr. Girard pointed out the container market. project so that Québec
nomic niches with the Commerce and Indus- that the opening of the Québec City mayor and Eastern Canada can
highest potential for the try, port president and new 15m deep Pana- Régis Labeaume in compete with big U.S.
future Port’s develop- CEO Mario Girard ma Canal in 2016 and comments on Beau- ports and to make the
ment. stressed that the Port the emergence of next port 2020: “Building a Port of Québec Europe’s
For the Québec City of Québec has all the -generation ships re- container terminal as gateway to trade in
area and all along the St. strategic advantages quiring deep-water part of the Beauport North America."
Hunterston Port nets funding for oil & gas decommissioning
Hunterston Port and ston PARC, has accept- struction approvals. Clyde in Ayrshire, 40 oped to support the
Resource Centre ed a grant offer of According to Peel miles west of Glasgow, Scottish Government’s
(PARC) in Ayrshire has £240,000 under the Ports, the gates would the site hosts one of ‘Circular Economy’
been awarded grant Decommissioning Chal- improve access for off- the largest dry docks in strategy, with the co-
funding from the lenge Fund. shore structures, allow- the UK, development location of material
Scottish Government The total investment of ing them to be floated land and routes to mar- management, asset
that could pave the nearly half a million in for decommission- ket for decommis- decommissioning and
way for the site to be- pounds will be used to ing. The project is part sioned assets. This in- recycling, pre-
come an oil and gas design new gates at of the port operators cludes two rail termi- fabrication and manu-
decommissioning facili- Hunterston’s dry dock plans to create a new nals, onsite cargo han- facturing, and power
ty. and to carry out pre- future for the former dling capabilities and generation all on a sin-
Peel Ports, which owns liminary work on secur- coal port. deep water draught. gle site.
and operates Hunter- ing the necessary con- Located on the Firth of The site is being devel-
Port of the Month - Antwerp
Antwerp claims to be one of the biggest port areas in the world covering a total of 13,057
hectares. Sea-going vessels visiting the port can transport goods 80 kilometres inland, into the
heart of Europe.
The Port Authority offers land, warehouses, covering and quays in concession to private en-
terprises to develop their commercial activities.
The Port Authority also manages the utility lines, pipes and wind turbines with other parties.
Container cargo, liquid bulk, dry bulk, breakbulk and ro-ro traffic all pass through the port
which has more than 500 direct destinations all over the world.
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4ALLPORTS News Update December 2017
Zeeland Seaports and Ghent Port Company merge
A merger agreement be North Sea Port and a supervisory body will for the holding. The to be a leading brand in
between Zeeland Sea- its will represent the be installed. Moreover, holding will be estab- the international port
ports and Ghent Port 60km cross-border there will be a Share- lished in the former world. By then, it wants
Company was signed on port area of Flushing, holders Committee town hall of Sas van to increase its added
Friday 8th December. Borsele and Terneuzen with all elected repre- Gent, in the heart of value by 10%, its mari-
All eight shareholders of in the Netherlands up sentatives of the mu- the port area, just on time traffic to 70 million
both ports agreed with to Ghent in Belgium. nicipal councils, coun- the border of the tonnes (currently 62
the merger and signing In early 2018, the Eu- cils and state and pro- Netherlands and Bel- million tonnes) and in-
took place on a ship ropean public limited vincial councils – the gium. The future Port land traffic to 60 million
that symbolically sailed liability company will shareholders. House in Ghent – the tonnes (currently 55
from Ghent across the be established as hold- In addition, there will House of the Free Skip- million tonnes). Employ-
Dutch border in the ing of the two subsidi- be structural and bilat- pers at the Graslei – ment is expected to
direction of Terneuzen. ary companies Zeeland eral meetings with the will function as an in- grow to 100,000 jobs
The name of the compa- Seaports and Ghent shareholders. A partici- ternational sign board. and it will offer 1,000
ny as a result of the Port Company for pation body for the By the year 2022, hectares of land for allo-
cross-border merger will which, among others, staff will also be set up North Sea Port wants cation.
Van Oord completes expansion of Taiwan's largest port
Van Oord recently com- hopper dredgers Vox commodate terminals where more than 10 strengthen the position
pleted the expansion of Máxima, Volvox Ter- and wharves, some of million containers are of the port of Kaohsiung
the port of Kaohsiung. ranova, and Rotterdam which will be able to transhipped each year. as Taiwan’s maritime
The client, Taiwan Inter- created 250 hectares handle container ves- The expansion enables gateway."
national Ports Corpora- of new land for the sels of up to 22,000 future growth and will
tion (TIPC), awarded the Kaohsiung Interconti- TEU.
contract back in 2015. nental Container Cen- Taiwan International
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time, trailing suction The new land will ac- through the port,
Milford Haven greenlights fund for marine renewable energy project
The Port of Milford Have- partner with Marine Ener- Chief Executive Alec Don stating, in the clearest build on current world-
n’s Board of Directors has gy Wales, ORE Catapult made the announcement: terms possible, that we class capabilities to enter
allocated £650,000 to kick and Wave Hub to develop “The funding creates vital are committed to making these new markets, stated
start dockyard improve- a centre for marine energy impetus for Pembroke Port Pembroke Dock Marine a the Port Authority.
ments which will form research and develop- and Pembroke Dock Ma- world-leading centre in The Port of Milford Have-
part of Pembroke Dock ment, fabrication, testing rine, allowing us to tackle this fast-growing sector.” n’s Engineering Director
Marine; a project aimed to and deployment, in Pem- extensive planning leg- Pembroke Dock Marine Tim Bownes, who is head-
make Pembroke Dock a brokeshire. work now, so that we can aims to create an oppor- ing up the Pembroke Port
centre for marine renewa- The funding will maintain hit the road running when tunity for Pembrokeshire element of the project,
ble energy research and momentum on the crucial the full City Deal funding to be at the heart of an said there will be a com-
development. planning and consenting comes through. emerging industry with a prehensive period of con-
The funding comes in work and will help ensure “The Port is only one of potential market which it sultation, during which the
preparation for the £76m building work can com- the partners involved in predicts to be worth views of stakeholders,
Swansea Bay City Deal mence quickly once the the project, of course, ac- around €53bn each year. including the general pub-
project which will see the City Deal business plan counting for 37% of the Existing businesses serving lic, will be sought.
Port of Milford Haven has been signed off. total package, but we are the energy industry would
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4ALLPORTS News Update December 2017
Consortium contracted for Rotterdam tank terminal
ny Van Hattum en bic metres. The tran- and differences be-
Blankevoort, Boskalis shipment of oil prod- tween supply and de-
and TBI unit Mobilis. ucts in Rotterdam has mand for oil products
The contract is valued grown strongly in re- on the various conti-
at more than €100m cent years. In the past nents. The project in-
and will enable HES to 20 years the volume cludes the construction
facilitate the storage has nearly quintupled of a 1.2km deep sea
and transhipment of to around 90 million quay wall, 1.1km long
Image source: Boskalis
oil products. The 27- tonnes, according to quay for inland vessels,
The construction of a Rotterdam has official- hectare large terminal VolkerWessels. Rea- 360m jetty with four
quay for the new tank ly been awarded to a will house 52 tanks sons for this include berths as well as the
terminal being built by consortium of Royal with a capacity of the growing global execution of dredging
HES International in VolkerWessels compa- around 1.3 million cu- trade in oil products and excavation work.
Hutchinson Ports acquires 50% of TMA Logistics
Port operator Hutchison the Hutchison Ports’ of 2019 at the entrance aging Director of TMA, Sweden, Finland, UK and
Ports has acquired a Amsterdam Container to the North Sea Canal. added: “The North Sea Norway, together with
50% shareholding in Terminal (ACT). ACT has multimodal Canal terminals in Vel- rail connections to Ger-
Dutch-based terminal ACT boasts three berths connections by short sen and Amsterdam are many and China.”
operator TMA Logistics with total length of sea, inland waterways, ideally located for off-
B.V. (TMA). TMA has a 1,015m and depth of road and air. It is direct- shore activities related
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in Amsterdam and one be the largest in the tion. tions from the Amster-
in Antwerp as well as at world, opens at the end Gerben Matroos, Man- dam terminal include
Port of Blyth bags decommissioning licence
The Port of Blyth’s appli- at its Battleship Wharf sponse to demand. and DeepOcean and ject.
cation for a decommis- terminal for operations Already providing ac- has been utilised in the Roger Esson, Chief Exec-
sioning licence from the during 2018. cess to deep water realisation of a number utive of Decom North
UK Environment Agency The designated 2.3ha berths to over 9.5m large scale projects Sea, commented: “This
(EA) has been approved. decom site within the and an adjacent rail including the launch of successful application
Having worked closely terminal is now li- link, work will com- world’s largest pipe for a decommissioning
with the EA for 12 censed to handle up to mence to prepare a laying system with licence from the UK En-
months prior to the en- 50,000 tonnes of off- heavy duty concrete Royal IHC, the Belgium vironment Agen-
vironmental permit be- shore energy materials base and quarantine -UK Nemo Link inter- cy clearly demonstrates
ing granted the port is per year with the Port areas for hazardous connector and the the benefits brought by
now ready move into likely to focus on small waste including development of EDF early communication
the offshore decommis- to medium sized pro- NORM. Renewables’ 41.5MW between the supply
sioning market and is jects and pieces up to The port plays host to Blyth Offshore Demon- chain and sector regula-
preparing a suitable site 4000 tonnes in re- Global Marine Group strator wind farm pro- tors.”
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