Increasing demand for port-related logistics real estate has resulted in the Port of Rotterdam Authority classifying a further 100 hectares of land at Maasvlakte 2 as a distribution park. ‘Distripark Maasvlakte West’ is currently the only available ‘greenfield’ site for distribution in the Port of Rotterdam, the company said in its press release. “Distripark Maasvlakte [...]
During the past month a pusher barge moored in the Antwerp port area on the Left bank of the Scheldt carrying four large storage tanks each 50 metres long. These cylinders came from a specialist tank builder in Germany and were carried down the Rhine to Antwerp. After being unloaded they continued their journey by [...]
Last year the port handled 223.606.610 ton of goods, a 4.4% growth compared to 2016. Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO at Port of Antwerp: “Ending up a year with such growth figures, creates trust in the future”. Our companies also fully believe in the leading role and strengths of Antwerp, as they bare testimony to the numerous [...]
Rotterdam expects liquified natural gas (LNG) bunkering to be an unremarkable event in the port by 2020. The Dutch trading and bunkering hub, which has invested solidly in the alternative bunker fuel, is confident that LNG bunkering will form part of the port's regular services when the global sulfur cap on bunker fuel falls to [...]
Gasunie LNG Holding B.V., Oiltanking GmbH and Vopak LNG Holding B.V. are in the process of establishing the joint venture “German LNG Terminal GmbH”. The purpose of the joint venture is to build, own and operate an LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) import terminal in northern Germany. The terminal will also provide LNG distribution services. To [...]
January 16, 2018 [SeeNews] - Romanian cargo handling company Oil Terminal said on Friday it has signed a deal estimated at 24.0 million lei ($8.6 million/7.5 million euro) with local diesel fuel distributor Oscar Downstream for services to be provided by the terminal in 2018. Under the contract, Oil Terminal will handle the discharging of [...]
January 8, 2018 [Nasdaq] - Dutch authorities are evaluating Venezuelan state-run oil company's PDVSA's response on Friday to a demand to repair or close a decaying oil-storage facility on the Caribbean island of Bonaire, a spokeswoman said. The terminal is a key PDVSA facility and its loss would hurt shipments to customers in Asia. The [...]
December 28, 2017 [Nasdaq] - Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) in a consortium with Van Hattum en Blankevoort (Royal VolkerWessels) and TBI subsidiary Mobilis has been awarded a contract by the Port of Rotterdam Authority to build quay walls and a jetty, as well as to execute related activities for the construction of a new [...]
