APM Terminals has announced its Q1 2013 financial results. HIGHLIGHTS • Profit of USD 166m (USD 226m). Gains of USD 73m after tax were included in 2012; • RQIC was 12.0% (20.1%); • Cash flow from operating activities was USD 242m (USD 185m); • Number of containers handled was 8.6m TEU (8.6m TEU); •
VolkerStevin has received the Most Considerate Site Runner-Up award for the Lower Todmorden and Walsden FAS Phase three project at the National Site Awards, given only to the top 26 Gold Award winning projects in the UK. VolkerStevin also won two Bronze Awards for the Central Felixstowe Coast Protec
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has completed the heightening of six quay cranes at MSC Home Terminal, which is the largest container terminal in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. The project, undertaken by Kalmar’s specialist Crane Services team, facilitates the continued expansion of the port by making it p
Building on high levels of activity and recent investment, Lerwick Harbour is positioned for another busy year and continuing development of infrastructure to meet users’ future requirements. In his foreword to Lerwick Port Authority’s newly-published Strategy and Business Plan 2013, Chairman Harry
In April 2013 Matecs BV from Roosendaal delivered 10 shore valves, that were completely new developed. The valves were engineered and tested in-house, at the Roosendaal premises by W & TS, and fully constructed, machined, assembled and thoroughly tested by Matecs under the same roof. For the develop
For over 20 years the Clean Tyne Project, in partnership with the Port of Tyne and the four riverside councils of Gateshead, Newcastle, South Tyneside and North Tyneside have been working together to combat the problem of debris and litter in the River Tyne. The Clearwater was first launched in 2005
The BDC 200 is just one of a range of Italdraghe dredging buckets designed to fit virtually every type and size of excavator. This new “mini-dredger” is both compact and efficient thanks to its powerful cutter head and dredging pump, identical to those on full-sized cutter suction dredger. The Itald
On 14 May 2013 Igor Levit, Acting General Director of FSUE “Rosmorport”, visited the Vyborg Shipyard, LLC, where 3 diesel-electrical icebreakers of project 2900M are being conducted by order of FSUE “Rosmorport”, which acts as a client constructor. Igor Levit observed the construction progress, and
Cummins: “Smallest-to-Largest” on Display at Nor-Shipping (Norway) Cummins Inc, a leading manufacturer of diesel engines for the commercial marine industry, will feature one of the most impressive engine line-ups at Nor-Shipping (Oslo, Norway; June 4-7) with a “smallest-to-largest” commercial marine
A team of editors of World Maritime News has paid a visit today to one of the major ports of the Adriatic coast, the Port of Bar in Montenegro. Luka Bar AD rated this year’s business operation as less successful than that recorded last year. The management believes that this will be significantly im
The General Dredging Course is a two-week open course (Training Institute for Dredging, 16 – 27 September 2013), focused on the design and operation of various types of dredging equipment and covers all aspects of dredging, such as dredging processes, equipment selection, soil characteristics, autom
On May 15th, RIEGL won the Geospatial World Award in the category Geospatial Technology Innovation Surveying at the Geospatial World Forum Conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, for the RIEGL VQ-820-G. The RIEGL VQ-820-G introduced the world’s first “tightly coupled”, shallow water, land and smar
