PIL’s new Asia Pacific Northwest Service (ANW) will call Terminal 30 in partnership with China Shipping Container Lines’ (CSCL) and United Arab Shipping Company’s (UASC) existing joint service.
 
The service will have a port rotation of Nansha/ Hong Kong/ Yantian/ Ningbo/ Shanghai/ Pusan/ Seattle/ Vancouver/ Nansha. The service gives fast and reliable transits for imports to the PNW and beyond, while providing expanded options for exports.
 
PIL is the second major shipping line in the past year to choose the Port of Seattle as its primary U.S. Pacific Northwest port of call.  PIL was incorporated in 1967 and is headquartered in Singapore.

The period September – December shows similar order intake volumes as earlier in the year but the mix between Yard spreaders and STS spreaders was more normal than the order intake mix for the first 8 months of the year. The high share of replacement spreader orders earlier in the year in this period was balanced by a high volume of Yard spreaders for both RTG’s and ASC’s.

The orders reflect a good geographical split between the different parts of the world.

New Order for All-Electric GreenlineTM spreaders include:

* An order for 21 YSX40E have been received for PSA Saudi Global Ports in Damma

* An order have been received for 25 YSX40E for Asya Port, Turkey

*17 YSX45E have been ordered for Trapac, USA. This is the delivery of spreaders for the second phase of ACS’s going into the terminal.

In addition, the following major orders have been received:

* 14 YSX45E for SNCT, Korea

 *14 YSX40E for Libra Terminals, Brazil

*10 YSX45E for Port of Oslo, Norway

 *7 YSX40E for MultiRio, Brazil

* 6 YSX45E for SICT in Sydney*

*5 YSX40E for Port of Noire, Rep of Congo

 *5 YSX40E for Port of Douala, Cameroon

 *5 YSX40E for Lagos, Nigeria

 *6 YSX40E for TPS Surabaya Indonesia

In addition, the Group’s results benefitted from a reversal in the volumes at Eurogate Tanger not only recovering from previous years but, for the first time ever, breaking the one million TEU threshold.

Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), the “MEGA HUB” in Gioia Tauro, recorded, for the second consecutive year, a double digit growth with customers benefitting from reliable performances and state of the art infrastructure already capable to operate ULCCs. Cagliari International Container Terminal (CICT), despite the economic and political situation in the North African target market increased its activity confirming the strategic dual-role of Med transhipment platform and gateway for local Sardinian cargo.

La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) and Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) benefitted from growth in both regional containerized cargo flows, largely export driven but with some improvement in imports as the economic recovery endeavours to take hold, in the strategic North Tyrrhenian and North Adriatic markets. Adding to this the positive result of Salerno Container Terminal (SCT), Contship Italia Group’s valued customers were able to achieve competitive advantages for their global supply chain through the Contship network, with vertically integrated solutions and continuous investments to further guarantee and size up to the challenge of future business and customer service network requirements.

Contship Italia Group Intermodal solutions (operated by Sogemar and Hannibal) achieved a slightly softer full year result even if the current domestic market trend has been partially compensated by the more positive results of the international combined transport sector. The Group’s DRY PORT in Milan-Melzo increased its rail activity with over 5,500 trains handled in 2013. Developments in this modern rail hub will continue in 2014 with the objective to further improve rail capacity supporting the competitiveness of both domestic and international rail transport markets. Oceanogate Italia operated over one million train kilometres in its second year of activities, firmly establishing itself as a reliable link in the global supply chain.

“2014 will continue to be affected by high level of uncertainty – said Cecilia Eckelmann-Battistello, Contship Italia Group President – and we are expecting further complex dynamics in the business of our valued clients whose revenues must be restored to sustainable levels in order to safeguard the increasing level of investment. This must be considered as a key objective for the global supply chain,  as clearly, cost reduction in absolute terms, in network costs, port and terminal expenses, has its’ own tipping point. Our businesses continue to be under pressure from this expectation whilst at the same time we are, ourselves, impacted by the cost of investment, energy and labour costs, something that must be acknowledged in the supply chain”.

Factoring in projected cargo growth, this will result in overall reductions of 70 percent by 2015 and 75 percent by 2020. The ports also set a goal to reduce greenhouse gases by 10 percent by 2015 and 15 percent by 2020 per ton of cargo moved. The goals are part of the 2013 Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy