4ALLPORTS News Update July 2020
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4ALLPORTS News Update July 2020 Suez Canal blockage racks up over $9 billion per day News in brief: Port of Antwerp welcomes LNG ly cost 12 per ployed. The vessel is bunkering : Port of Antwerp, cent of global towed to a location Fluxys, and Titan LNG have celebrat- ed the christening of a new LNG trade and was outside the channel for bunker barge; the FlexFueler 002. holding up further inspection. Owned by gas infrastructure group trade valued at Fluxys and leading physical supplier over $9 billion Peter Berdowski, CEO of LNG, Titan LNG, the FlexFueler 002 makes LNG as a marine fuel per day, ac- Boskalis: “Shortly fol- widely available to vessels bunker- cording to data lowing the grounding ing in the port. The FlexFueler 002 from Lloyd's of the Ever Given we operates from its base at quay list. were requested 526/528 and supplies LNG through- out the port and Western Scheldt. It Copernicus Sentinel data 2021, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/ through SMIT Salvage is the third vessel to join Titan LNG’s The 400 metre to provide assistance expanding infrastructure in the long vessel was with the salvage oper- Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp The 20,000 TEU contain- Sea to the Red freed by dredging and ation. I am excited to (ARA) region, operating in addition heavylift company Bos- to the FlexFueler 001 and the Green er vessel EVER GIV- Sea through announce that our Zeebrugge. EN has finally been the Isthmus of Su- kalis. For the refloating team of experts, work- of the container vessel Nordstream 2 issued with further freed from the Suez ez and divid- ing in close collabora- sanction threats: Nord Stream 2, a Canal on 29 March after ing Africa and Asia. It is approximately 30,000 tion with the Suez Ca- 1,225km (760-mile) subsea pipeline blocking the shipping one of the busiest cubic meters of sand nal Authority, success- being constructed between Germa- route for a week. shipping routes in the was dredged to help fully refloated the Ever ny and Russia, has come under fire free the vessel and a again from the US with the Secre- world. Given on 29 March at tary of State Antony J. Blinken re- The Suez Canal is an total of eleven harbor 15:05 hrs local time, leasing a statement that any entity artificial sea- The vessel grounded tugs and two powerful thereby making free involved in the project could be level waterway in Egypt, on 23 March causing a seagoing tugs (Alp passage through the subject to sanctions. The Nord Guard and Carlo Stream 2 project is being led by forming a passage from blockage. It is estimat- Suez Canal possible Nord Stream AG, whose majority the Mediterranean ed to have cost rough- Magna) were de- again.” shareholder is the Russian state company Gazprom. It would see the UK announces £95 million investment for Humber and Teesside installation of a further two gas lines to pump more gas to Europe via the Baltic Sea. Construction The UK government has works Offshore Manu- Teesside and Humber- 750 of the 3,000 high permits for German waters were announced up to £95 facturing Centre, on side as freeports – ex- quality jobs created by issued in 2018, and construction has million investment of the River Tees, will pected to encourage the Teesside port and since commenced. Completion is expected by the end of the year or funding for ports on the benefit from up to £20 free trade and bring approximately 1,500 Q1 2022 at the latest. Combined Humber and Teesside, million. investment to all re- indirect jobs in the ar- with, Nord Stream 1, the project to facilitate the manu- gions of the country ea. could see the import of 10 billion facture components for Together these new through lower taxes m3 of gas from Russia every year. Due to open and start the next generation of ports will have the ca- and cheaper customs. New rail services for Felixstowe: production in 2023, the offshore wind projects. pacity to house up to Hutchison Ports' Port of Felixstowe blades produced by GE introduced two new rails services in The investments are seven manufacturers The first offshore wind Renewables will be March. The first service is a new expected to boost the to support the devel- manufacturer to invest supplied to the Dogger daily rail service operated by GB UK’s offshore wind in- opment of the next- in the Teesside port Railfreight and connects the con- Bank wind farm, locat- dustry and create 6,000 generation offshore has also tainer port with Wakefield in York- ed off the North East shire. The new service is the 13th new jobs in the North. wind projects. Con- been confirmed to- coast, which when operated by GB Railfreight and the struction will begin day (11 March 2021). completed in 2026 will 12th daily rail connection to desti- Able Marine Energy later this year to up- GE Renewable Energy nations in Yorkshire. The Port also be the largest offshore Park, on the South Bank grade the two ports will build a new off- announce the start of a new rail wind farm in the world service to the East Midlands Gate- of the River Humber, with new infrastruc- shore wind blade man- and will be capable of way (EMG).Operated by Maritime will receive up to £75 ture. This follows news ufacturing factory at powering up to 6 mil- Transport and DB Cargo UK, the million government in- last week, when the the site, which will di- new rail freight service will be Mari- lion homes. vestment, and Tees- Chancellor named both rectly create around time's fifth connection with the Port of Felixstowe and will run Tuesday to Saturday. www.4allports.com | +44 1502 307037 | [email protected] 1 4ALLPORTS News Update July 2020 ABP port-centric manufacturing facility in Newport Associated British Ports ture of plasterboard. wind and solar support of the project. “Wales remains a strong (ABP) has commenced a This will eliminate the sources. Construction of the location for investment project to build a new need to transport raw new factory is planned and I am delighted our plasterboard factory at materials from the As part of the project, to commence in April long-term efforts with the Port of Newport, port to an in-land fac- ABP, together with a 2021. key partners have se- which will help create tory by road, which number of European- cured the development around 60 new full-time will help reduce CO2 based inward inves- Minister for Economy, of this state-of-the-art jobs in the area. emissions. tors, has invested Transport and North manufacturing centre. around £23 million to Wales, Ken Skates, This will create high The new facility will be Furthermore, the fac- create the new manu- said: “This major in- quality employment used to store gypsum, tory will benefit from facturing facility in vestment in Newport is opportunities and be which will be delivered green power generat- Newport. Welsh Gov- great news and a real crucial in supporting of by ship before being ed by ABP’s on-site ernment has also con- show of confidence in our construction sector.” used for the manufac- renewables, including tributed £750,000 in the area. Initial phase completed for Maryland’s first offshore wind staging centre Ørsted has announced grades, establishing a and specialised trans- Ørsted and Tradepoint develop Maryland’s the completion of the lift-on/lift-off and a roll- porters to move wind Atlantic are now begin- first offshore wind en- initial phase of Mary- on/roll-off berth within turbine components, ning preparations for ergy staging centre at land’s first offshore Tradepoint Atlantic’s some weighing as the second phase of Tradepoint Atlantic. wind staging centre at port facility for han- much as 2,000 tons, the staging centre, Establishing a facility Tradepoint Atlantic, dling offshore wind from ships onto the which is the develop- for offshore wind at the 3,300-acre global components such as site. Ørsted provided ment of 50 additional Tradepoint Atlantic logistics centre in Balti- wind turbine blades, funding to drive hun- acres of land for the marks a major mile- more County, Mary- foundations, nacelles, dreds of heavy steel laydown, storage, and stone in the develop- land. and towers. This in- pilings over 150 feet assembly of offshore ment of the compa- cludes strengthening into the ground so that wind components. nys Skipjack Wind Ørsted has now com- the ground bearing these heavy compo- Farm. pleted $13.2 million in capacity at the port to nents can be safely Ørsted signed an port infrastructure up- allow heavy-lift cranes handled. agreement in 2019 to ABP unveils Lowestoft offshore energy plans Associated British Ports toft’s Outer Harbour. In 2019, Scottish Power Energy and PowerPark, farms in Barrow, (ABP) has unveiled am- Renewables opened an where key offshore Grimsby and Lowestoft. bitious plans for the ABP stated that the Operations and energy developers, Port of Lowestoft, aim- project will deliver port Maintenance building operators and service “Our LEEF project rep- ing to create a com- infrastructure to meet in Hamilton Dock, to providers are located, resents an exciting step petitive edge for com- the offshore energy support the including SSE, Scottish- change in our ability to panies across the industry’s current and 714MW East Anglia Power Renewables, SLP service customers in Southern North Sea future demands, ensur- ONE offshore wind and Turner Iceni. the growing Southern (SNS) energy sector ing the port can accom- farm.