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New rail service between the port of Duisburg and the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp

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The new concept of this shuttle connection will start with 3 roundtrips per week of each around 100 TEU per train connecting Duisburg overnight with KTL Ludwigshafen and Frankfurt Industriepark Höchst. Southbound the departure days will be Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Northbound will be Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

In Duisburg, as biggest inland hub of Europe, this renewed service calls at the Duisburg Intermodal Terminal GmbH (DIT). Via the DIT terminal a daily train departs to the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp. In Rotterdam the train will call at all maritime terminals on the Maasvlakte area as the RSC Waalhaven for all continental and short-sea volumes and stops at certain short-sea terminals are planned for January 2015 for instance the Cobelfret terminal. To Antwerp a daily departure to and from Quai 1700 can be offered and on-carriage to other terminals.

ICTSI Polish receives 2 new quay cranes

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“It is certainly a very important date in the history of the BCT. Not only will the new cranes replace the old ones damaged two years ago, they will also increase our vessel handling capacity significantly. It is another step towards serving large ocean ships in Gdynia,” says Krzysztof Szymborski, CEO of the Baltic Container Terminal.

 

The QCs are part of a USD 58 million investment programme, which was initiated back in 2012. Co-funded by the European Union and the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Program, the investment covers the purchase of re-loading equipment including railway gantry cranes, straddle carriers and container trailers. It also involved the surface replacement of storage yards and the rollout of specialised terminal IT systems.

The cranes were supplied and manufactured by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co Ltd. Each crane can service 19-bay wide container vessels, which in practice are ships with 13,000 TEU capacities.

Meanwhile, retrofitting of the BCT railway terminal has also been carried out in coordination with the Management Board of the Gdynia Port Authority. The expansion will facilitate the simultaneous servicing of full length trainloads. The investment programme will increase BCT’s overall capacity by 50 percent.

First commercial vessel call at APM Terminals new Maasvlakte II facility

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The operation was completed employing the new remotely operated Ship-to-Shore (STS) quay cranes, working in conjunction with Lift-Automated Guided Vehicles (Lift-AGVs) and the automated stack system. Since early 2014, APM Terminals trained 45 remote operators by accessing advanced simulator technology from the same remote operating control stations which will be used for vessel operations.

Further deep-sea vessel calls are planned for January 2015, in preparation of the full commercial opening for regular weekly operations in February 2015. The facility began landside commercial operations with the opening of the truck gates and rail terminal in November 2014. Currently trains call the Maasvlakte II rail terminal three times per week.

The 86 hectare (212 acre) APM Terminals Maasvlakte II facility includes a 500m barge quay, 1km deep quay and an on-dock rail terminal with four tracks of 750m, providing an annual container throughput capacity of 2.7 million TEU.

To support the planned 2.7 million TEU capacity, APM Terminals has also signed two additional contracts for advanced container handling equipment. A contract was concluded for one additional STS barge crane with Liebherr Container Cranes for delivery mid-2016. The crane will complement the two barge cranes currently in operation.

An order has also been placed with Terex Gottwald for an additional 25 battery-powered Lift-AGVs and 58 storage racks. These will be deployed at the Automated Rail-Mounted Gantry (ARMG) crane container stacks, and at the rail terminal. The order increases the number of Lift-AGVs at the facility to 62, and the number of storage racks to 154. The rack installation will begin in February 2015, with vehicle deliveries beginning mid-year.

APM Terminals Maasvlakte II has been specifically designed for optimal efficiency and productivity when handling the newest ultra large container ships (ULCS) entering into the global container ship fleet.

Saturday 10 January, world's largest ships to arrive in Rotterdam

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It is almost certain that the CSCL Globe will arrive at 11 o’clock on 10 January. The ship will be travelling from Felixstowe and has organised festivities at the Euromax terminal in Rotterdam in connection with its maiden voyage. The details of the Pieter Schelte’s arrival are not definite as yet, but the ship left Cape Town on schedule and ship owner Allseas is assuming that the Pieter Schelte will arrive here on 10 January.

CSCL Globe
This container vessel is 400m long and 58.6m wide and has an official capacity of 19,000 TEU (twenty foot container equivalent))

Pieter Schelte
The Pieter Schelte is 38m long and 124m wide. The length, combined with the massive width, makes the ship unique. The Pieter Schelte was designed to install or remove the superstructures and substructures of large offshore oil and gas rigs in one piece.