As general and port agents for the car carriers division of CSAV Group, the largest shipping company in Latin America, ISS managed the arrival of CSAV Rio Maipo at Zarate port in Argentina, successfully handling 1,648 vehicles. Most recently, ISS managed the arrival of CSAV Rio Nevado in Panama, with this vessel also transiting the Panama Canal.

CSAV appointed ISS at the end of 2014 to attend one of its car carrier vessels at Callao port, Peru, when it successfully discharged 1,825 vehicles. This growing regional nomination expands ISS’ expertise and growth in the market since it first acted as a car carriers’ agent in 1999 in Ecuador.

Said Francisco Villagrán, Vice President Operations for South & Central America, Francisco Villagran: “Our work for CSAV demonstrates our capabilities and expertise in delivering a quality and efficient service at all levels, operational and administrative. We are very proud to be the agent of CSAV with its very successful history in the market.”

To stay competitive, and at the forefront of an ever-expanding and innovative industry, ports and terminals around the globe must effectively manage every element of their operations with the utmost efficiency from the ground up.

Successful terminal management ensures increased productivity and profitability, reduced error and risk and maximised use of available space, resulting in high performance of a cargo handling
business. What have we learnt from past projects, what is happening now and what lessons and knowledge can we apply in the future?

These key questions and issues will be addressed by our panel of industry experts and technical speakers from market leading organisations.

EVENT: CONTAINER TERMINAL MANAGEMENT

WHEN: 4th November 2015, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

HOW TO REGISTER: www.mcimedia.com

Speakers include:

Container weight verification as part of the regular lifting cycle (Bromma, Lars Meurling)

Automated RTGs – seamless integration with terminal processes to provide an automated work flow (International Terminal Solutions, Allan Jones)

Designing better container yards (Ivanovic Consultants, Goran Ivanovic)

Automated horizontal transportation 3.0 (Gaussin, Michel Lyrstrand)

The state of LED lighting for crane and high mast applications (Global Tech, Richard Racey)

Gate Automation – optimisation and best practices (Certus Automation, Benjie Wells)

Size Matters – Throughput matters more – (Camco Technologies – Brecht Thijs)

Advanced optimisation in container terminals – (Inform – Ingo Marko)

Register today at www.mcimedia.com

The contract is expected to have a total
value of DKK 500-600 million. The invitation to tender was based on functional requirements, and Aarsleff is to carry out the enlargement as a turnkey contract with the subsidiary VG Entreprenør A/S and Rohde Nielsen A/S as subcontractors and Grontmij A/S as consulting engineer.

Port of Frederikshavn wishes to enlarge and improve its current harbour facilities and develop growing business areas such as the offshore industry, the wind turbine industry and the recycling industry with environmentally friendly decommissioning of ships and oil rigs. Aarsleff is to establish a 600-metre new quay designed to accommodate high loads, a 30-hectare hinterland area and extend and deepen the fairway to a depth of 12 metres.

The geotechnical site investigations, authority processing and design will begin in August 2015, whereas the execution will begin in 2016. The project is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2018.

The decision of the terminal’s primary customer, Horizon Lines, to halt its Puerto Rico service and sell off its company assets in 2014, was the determining factor in APM Terminals’ decision to end the Jacksonville terminal lease. Throughput at APM Terminals Jacksonville was 182,438 TEU in 2014. Last year, APM Terminals Global Terminal Network handled a total of 38.3 million TEU world-wide.

Eight APM Terminals employees were affected by the Jacksonville terminal closure: four were placed in new jobs within APM Terminals, with the remainder finding employment elsewhere.

APM Terminals currently operates five container terminals in US ports, in Elizabeth, New Jersey; Miami, Florida; Mobile, Alabama; Los Angeles, California; and Tacoma, Washington. Total container throughput at APM Terminals’ US facilities was 6.15 million TEUs in 2014.