Felixstowe set a new record for the number of container moves in a 12 hour shift with the recent call of the Maersk Sarnia. A total of 3431 exchanges were completed on this vessel and in a 12 hour shift, 602 moves were completed by an individual Quayside Gantry Crane, the equivalent of more than 50 moves per hour, at an overall speed of 182 moves per hour across the whole vessel.

Clemence Cheng, Chief Executive Officer of Hutchison Ports (UK), which owns the Port of Felixstowe said: “We have been working hard with all our stakeholders, including our customers, to raise the service level at Felixstowe and I am very pleased to see this continuous improvement. I would like to thank the excellent workforces responsible for making this phenomenal achievement possible. It is a reflection of the close collaboration between the port and its customers and a great deal of team work from everyone to make this happen.”

“It is our commitment to our customers to continue to offer the best services available in the UK and to maintain our leadership position as the port of choice.”

In the past 12 months the port has achieved an overall improvement of 24% in real operational moves per hour on deep sea vessels.

Thus Duisburg is the company’s largest site worldwide. In future Kühne + Nagel will process the picking, storage and distribution of cleaning and body care products to markets in Germany, the Netherlands and Austria from here for a globally operating large customer from the consumer goods industry. The new logistics complex has been built on Kühne-und-Nagel-Platz on the logport I site by the duisport Group. The warehouses with a floor space of 22,000 square meters were built and handed over turnkey ready in just seven months.

Year-to-date, the port has handled 1,363,769 TEUs vs. 1,262,957 TEUs handled during the same period last year, an increase of 8 percent.

“We continue to set new thresholds on container volumes and that is exciting to see,” said Michael Quillen chairman of the Virginia Port Authority Board of Commissioners. “What is more significant is that the market, I believe, is beginning to respond to all that we have prepared for: we have big ships calling that need our 50-foot draft, an increasing demand on rail and we’re expanding our market.”

Total rail containers handled in August were 34,528, which is a 22.8 percent increase when compared with last August. The year-to-date rail containers total is 247,217 vs. 215,013 for the same period last year; an increase of 15 percent.

The service will be operated by the French container line CMA CGM and will call at the Port of Gothenburg every Friday.

A new container service has started between Gothenburg, Oslo and Moss in Norway and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

“Being able to offer Swedish industry a wide range of lines is extremely positive. The new feeder line is a welcome addition to our range, which now comprises 141 direct connections to ports throughout the world,” states Claes Sundmark, Port of Gothenburg Sales Director.

Behind the initiative is one of the world’s largest container lines, CMA CGM. The feeder line will be served by the container vessel Margareta B, which can load up to 500 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units).

The loads comprise import and export freight from various parts of the world. Following transshipment in Rotterdam, containers are transported to Norway and Sweden. The vessel will call at the container terminal at the Port of Gothenburg, APM Terminals, every Friday. The loop comprises Rotterdam – Oslo – Moss – Gothenburg – Rotterdam. The transit time between Gothenburg and Rotterdam is three days.

The new feeder line is CMA CGM’s second to the Port of Gothenburg. Already in place is a loop that includes Hamburg, Århus, Gothenburg and Helsingborg.