4ALLPORTS News Update June 2019

Maritime Transport opens rail terminal at Tilbury News in brief:

 Milford Haven hires new Chief: with easy access to our The Port of Milford Haven has A 55,000 Sq ft Rubb rail connections. The appointed Andy Jones as its new shed was relocated site that Maritime Chief Executive. Mr Jones, who has been with the organisation from another part of were previously locat- for eight years, starts his position the port to the site to ed on the port will now with immediate effect. He brings provide rail connected become part of the experience drawn from his years undercover storage. Tilbury2 development as Deputy Chief Executive and Finance Director. Maritime can accom- area. modate both domestic  Port of Tyne under new direc- and International / EU "We’re delighted with tion:The Port of Tyne has appointed Simon Brett as Commer- trade in the new termi- the new site and are cial Director Port Services. Simon nal. confident that our relo- joins Port of Tyne from Associated cation will benefit our British Ports where he was most recently Head of Projects on the Maritime Transport Ltd world, Maritime will Commenting on the customers," said Dave Humber. (Maritime) has opened use an existing termi- new facility, Peter Boomer, Chief Execu- its new rail connected nal railhead which has Ward, Commercial Di- tive Officer, Maritime  Gothenburg building crossdocking terminal: Construction of the distribution terminal at been converted to rector at the Port of Transport Ltd. "Being Svea Terminal – a new rail con- the Port of Tilbury. Mar- allow both straddle Tilbury, said: “It’s great rail connected is essen- nected crossdocking terminal for itime has been on site at carriers and reach to see this new facility tial for us, as we main- forest products at the Port of Tilbury for 15 years and stackers to operate for Maritime open. We tain current customer Gothenburg – is now underway at the Port of Gothenburg. The new has relocated to a new simultaneously. It is have worked with them relationships and look terminal will offer weather- facility with rail connec- expected to double the for a long time and it to grow our intermodal protected transloading immedi- tivity near London Con- handling capacity of was important that the business, which ately beside the port’s ro-ro and tainer Terminal. the terminal and will port invested in this launched earlier this container terminals. Operations are due to commence during the handle both intermod- new facility for their year, to help improve first half of 2020. Handling mostly steel al and specialised steel growing business. Mar- both ours and our cus- for distribution to Eu- wagons from the first itime’s terminal pro- tomers eco creden-  Forth Ports multimillion-pound crane investment: ABP’s Port of rope and rest of the day of operation. vides a bespoke facility tials." King’s Lynn has secured a new contract with the crude vermicu- Port of Esbjerg announces terminal expansion lite distributor company, Palabora Europe Limited, following the port’s investment in a new The Board of Directors stalled. The costs of terminals at the port, tive compared to road £30,000 bagging plant. Palabora of Port Esbjerg has establishing the termi- which are operated by transport, due to the Europe Limited is a supplier of adopted the construc- nal are expected to run Blue Water Shipping and falling costs, among oth- crude vermiculite to a range of 2 industries in the UK that use the tion of a 40,000m multi to a total investment Scandinavian Auto Logis- er things because bigger material in fire protection, plas- -terminal in the eastern of around DKK 15 mil- tics. ships are being built. ters, renders and lightweight port area. The new ter- lion. There is also a general concretes in the construction minal is expected to be In 2018, Port Esbjerg focus on moving more of industry. completed by the end of An invitation to tender reportedly handled 4.4 Europe’s traffic from  The Port of Liverpool appoints the year. for the construction of million tonnes of cargo, road to sea, to alleviate new Port Director: Peel Ports has the new terminal will as a hub for RoRo traffic, motorway congestion appointed a new Port Director for the Mersey cluster of ports, Si- The terminal will include be announced during with six fixed liner ser- problems. So we have mon Brown. He is responsible for direct access to the the new few weeks. vices and connections to faith that the positive all commercial and operational three ramps already The terminal is ex- more than 25 ports. Port development will contin- activities at Liverpool, Runcorn established at the quay. pected to be complet- Esbjerg is also one of ue, offering new oppor- and the Manchester Ship Canal (excluding the two container It will be surfaced with ed in November 2019 Denmarks largest hub tunities for our custom- terminals and RORO). concrete tiles, and and will be located for car imports. ers, which we must help drains will be built, fenc- adjacent to the two them to fulfil,” says Den- For further information please visit es set up and gates in- existing multi- “Sea routes are becom- nis Jul Pedersen. the 4AllPorts news pages: ing increasingly competi- www.4allports.com

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APM Terminals Barcelona outlines recent €47 million investment

APM Terminals Barcelo- vested €47 million in Super Post Panamax minal to further in- cy. This certification na provided an overview the Port of Barcelona cranes in April this crease efficiency, offer- standardises the termi- of the company's short over recent months. year. The two new ing customers the nal's customs opera- and middle-term pro- The most recent in- Ship-to-Shore cranes, highest productivity tions, closing the circuit jects last week. Repre- vestment was the ac- which are now opera- out of all the Mediter- of customs processing sentatives of the port quisition of 29 new tional, allow opera- ranean terminals. and security in national community, including straddle carriers, tions with ships of up and European transport. the president of the which will help APM to 23 containers across In June, APM Termi- Port of Barcelona, Terminals Barcelona the beam. In addition, nals Barcelona also The purpose of the AEO Mercè Conesa, and the improve efficiency they are capable of received Authorised status is to apply more deputy director of State once operational this lifting 100 tonnes and Economic Operator rigorous and effective Ports, Javier Martín San- month. can also operate in (AEO) statusfor protec- security measures and todomingo attended. The terminal also took TWIN mode (2x20’), tion and security from at the same time facili- APM Terminals has in- delivery of two new which allows the ter- the Spanish Tax Agen- tate the flow of goods in international trade. Dordrecht Inland Seaport getting upgrades

In The Netherlands, Port Authority will be and inland shipping “This development not all users and optimum The Port of Rotterdam investing over 3.5 mil- jetties & dolphins will only enables us to meet use will be made of the Authority is further lion euros to optimise receive an upgrade and the increasing demand nautical space, while developing Dordrecht the Wilhelminahaven. a barge area will be for bulk transhipment also achieving optimum Inland Seaport with an The current mooring created. The new buoy handling capacity and nautical access for Kil- aim to meet the in- buoys will be replaced configuration is ex- for waterfront plots, kade 7,” commented creasing demand for with five new certifi- pected to increase ship but it also ensures that Rik Dalmeijer – Area bulk transhipment han- cated mooring buoys -ship handling capacity Wilhelminahaven is Manager Dordrecht dling capacity and for with a tensile strength and offer larger vessels future proof. Inland Seaport. waterfront plots. of 200 tonnes. the opportunity for “The port will be better In the coming year, the simultaneous tranship- organised and safer for The sea-going shipping ment. Global Energy Group nets Nigg contract

Global Energy Group Nigg is one of the larg- plant and equipment and Installation con- wind farm, Scotland’s (GE) has been lined up est port facilities in the such as cranes and low tract for Moray first large scale and the for a staging port con- Moray Firth, with some loaders (SPMT’s), to East back in 2017. The UK’s deepest water tract with a new client, of the largest construc- handle the large off- EPCI contract covered offshore power genera- DEME Offshore, for use tion and assembly shore wind structures the foundations pro- tion project. of the Port of Nigg for shops in Europe. The and increase loading curement and installa- The Beatrice offshore the Moray facility features a dry capacity. GEG also re- tion offshore, using its installation and con- East offshore wind dock and over 900m of cently announced a DP3 equipped new struction operations farm development. The deepwater quayside. further planned £10- build offshore installa- has now been complet- contract is estimated to £15 million investment, tion vessel Orion. ed and Siemens is in worth £10 to £12 mil- Since taking over the designed to expand the process of de- lion with GE to provide site, GEG has invested quayside availability In March 2018, the parting the site at Nigg, the services of the Port £90 million into the and adjacent yard Port of Nigg embarked ready for the ports for receipt of complet- port with £50 million space. on its first staging port/ next staging and mar- ed jacket foundations. spent on port infra- renewables hub con- shalling contract to structure including the DEME Offshore secured tract for Siemens, the commence in late 2019 Acquired by GE in Oc- new south quay and an Engineering, Pro- turbine supplier for or early 2020. tober 2011, the Port of £40 million on heavy curement, Construction SSE’s Beatrice offshore

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Planning underway for Teesside wind base

An application has been create more than 800 tor, allowing for the world and a new rail jects, Creyke Beck submitted to establish a jobs on top of the ex- import and assembly of crane, which would be A and Creyke B, multi-million pound isting workforce of 700 the components. It in- more than twice as tall and Teesside A, located offshore marine energy and the plant was offi- cludes the development as the Transporter around between 148- park on the former SSI cially reopened 15 April of a new 950 metre long Bridge. It has been esti- 214 km off the North steelworks site on the 2012. Due to the decline quay along the South mated that nearly 250 East coast. SSE and Equi- the South Bank of Tees of steel prices produc- Bank wharf, replacing jobs would be created nor each own a 50% in Redcar, North York- tion at the site was the present derelict during the construction share in each of the shire. The project is be- mothball in September structure. On the site, period and thereafter three projects, which ing developed by Prism 2015 and the SSIs UK components would be 600 permanent jobs for have an individual ca- Planning which was en- subsidiary entered into stored, assembled and workers and manage- pacity up to 1.2GW. gaged by Able UK, a liquidation. shipped on to purpose- ment associated with British marine industrial built vessels designed to the proposal. Furthermore, innogy is services company. Early-stage planning for offshore wind instal- developing it 1400 documents have been lation. The former SSI site lo- MW Sofia offshore pro- Thai-based SSI submitted to Redcar and cated nearby the Dog- ject roughly 165 km (Sahaviriya Steel Indus- Cleveland Council for In order to do this, new ger Bank wind farm from the coast nearby tries) steelworks pur- the rejuvenation of the cranes would be built, zone. The Dogger the Dogger Bank pro- chased the site in Febru- site. The project would including the most pow- Bank wind farms con- jects. ary 2011. The acquisi- provide a new base for erful conventional sists of three offshore tion was expected to the offshore wind sec- crawler crane in the wind farm pro-

Port Agreement inked for Brayton Point

The Commercial Devel- rine commerce termi- chased the 308-acre struction of the cooling completed, site grading opment Company, Inc. nal and create a re- property in January towers began in 2009 and preparation works (CDC) on behalf of its gional logistics port 2018, with the aim to and the plant ceased for new development affiliate Brayton Point with global distribution reposition as a hub for power generation on will follow in the sum- LLC, the owner/ capabilities. The com- offshore wind. CDC is a 1st June 2017. mer. developer of the Bray- pany is a joint venture privately-held, diversi- ton Point Commerce between Carver Steve- fied real estate acquisi- CDC claim that site’s CDC recently signed an Center, has signed a doring Services, Inc. tion and development close proximity to off- agreement with Anbaric port operations and and Pangaea Logistics firm whose principal shore wind energy to launch the Anbaric lease agreement with Solutions Ltd for the competency lies within tracts in the Atlantic Renewable Energy Cen- Patriot Stevedoring + purposes of managing the acquisition, reposi- Ocean (37 nautical ter at Brayton Point. The Logistics LLC (Patriot). the port operations at tioning, and redevelop- miles), means it its is site is to host a 1,200 CDC is in the process of Brayton Point Termi- ment of underutilised, uniquely suited to MW high-voltage direct transforming the former nal. It offers a 34-ft distressed or environ- serve the offshore current converter – an coal-fired power plant deep water port which mentally challenged wind energy sector. investment estimated at site into a logistics port, was once used to im- properties. Brayton Brayton Point Com- $250 million which aims manufacturing hub and port coal. It will now Point was the largest merce Center is ex- to serve the offshore support centre for the be used for bulk cargo, coal-fired generating pected to be opera- wind industry. In addi- offshore wind energy heavy lift cargoes, and station in New Eng- tions-ready in 2020. tion, Anbaric will com- sector. building materials for land, and was the last Demolition works mence development of the offshore wind en- coal-fired power sta- kicked off in Septem- 400 MW of battery stor- With this agreement, ergy sector. tion in Massachusetts ber 2018 and, with the age on site, which would Patriot will now manage to provide power to controlled implosion of bring an additional $400 operations of the ma- Brayton Point LLC pur- the regional grid. Con- the cooling towers million in investment.

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BG Freight Line adds Waterford-Rotterdam service

BG Freight Line, in part- Ports Group. It runs a world. It has a pres- ing introduced to sup- and adding Waterford nership with Maersk, is fleet of 23 fully con- ence in 130 countries, port Maersk’s custom- will strengthen our ex- starting a new weekly tainerised vessels from employing over 75,000 ers in the southeast cellent Irish Sea network service on the Water- its headquarters in people. Maersk moves and in response to the even further. The call in ford-Rotterdam route Rotterdam and focuses more than 12m con- needs of some of the Waterford will boost the that will act as a deep- on northern European, tainers a year world- region’s largest indus- shipping options for sea feeder for business- UK and Ireland connec- wide and offers a wide tries. local businesses ena- es in Ireland who are tions. variety of other logis- Koert Luitwieler, CEO, bling them to reach exporting or importing Maersk is the largest tics products to service BG Freight Line, said: Rotterdam within days goods. BG Freight Line is container logistics or- customer needs. “BG Freight Line is al- and connect to the rest a European shipping line ganisation in the Peel Ports stated that ways looking for new of the world.” and part of the Peel the new service is be- growth opportunities Port of Southampton and PortMiami forge ties

The Port of Southamp- The ‘twinning’ of the signed the official In- ampton, said: “We are in trade and tourism ton and PortMiami Port of Southampton ternational Sister Sea- pleased to be officially through our cargo and signed a sister port and PortMiami report- ports Agreement with linked with our friends cruise activity. I look agreement during a visit edly demonstrates an Alastair Welch, Port of at PortMiami and hope forward to growing our from a delegation of allegiance between the Southampton Director we can mutually bene- relationship as sister officials from the Florida two ports. during the visit. The fit from lessons learned cities and sister ports -based port and Miami- agreement is expected around successes seen through the strengthen- Dade County. To make the agree- to open channels for on both sides.” ing of our cultural and During the visit, a city ment official, Juan cruise industry best Juan Kuryla, Port Direc- commercial ties, and I twinning agreement Kuryla, Port Director at practice in their re- tor at PortMiami, said: anticipate the develop- was also signed at the PortMiami, and The spective areas. “Miami-Dade County ment of economic op- Mayor’s Parlour at the Honorable Carlos and Southampton have portunities for us both.” Civic centre. Gimenez, Mayor at Alastair Welch, Direc- much in common. Our Miami-Dade County tor at Port of South- ports are both leaders

DP World joins Northern Sea Route project

The Russian Federation The key objective of breakers, as well as the but to customers in pare a feasibility study is investing with foreign the project is to in- port infrastructure. A Asia and Europe. Our for the project within six investors in Russian crease the volume of separate important expertise in developing months. Subject to this assets; ROSATOM - the freight traffic through area of work: ensuring new Ports, infrastruc- work being completed a infrastructure operator the NSR and the Arctic industrial safety and ture and innovative next stage decision will of the NSR-Norilsk Nick- zone of the Russian environmental protec- new supply chain solu- be made on the further el and DP World have Federation. tion in the implemen- tions, are key factors in development of the agreed to jointly imple- tation of transporta- our successes over the project. ment a project for the The focus will be on tion along the NSR. His last few decades. We integrated development linear transportation Excellency, Sultan Ah- see enormous poten- “Norilsk Nickel is one of of the Northern Sea of containers and oth- med bin Sulayem said, tial in NSR and look the pioneers in the de- Route (NSR). The parties er bulk cargo along the “DP World is uniquely forward to creating velopment of the Arctic, intend to create a stra- Northern Sea Route. It positioned to help drive new successes with our a company with unique tegic partnership in the will be necessary to the development of the partners” experience in operating form of a joint venture determine the amount NSR. We are excited the Northern Sea Route. The parties agreed to for the development of of funding for the de- about the possibilities We will share it for the establish a joint work- transit cargo traffic sign and construction and the benefits this further development of ing group to conduct through the NSR. of an additional ice- will bring not only to this unique route”, not- an analysis and pre- class fleet and ice- the Russian economy, ed Vladimir Potanin.