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ABP has announced a £36 million expansion plan at the port


of Immingham, along


with a £2.8m investment in expanding the land and services available to support customer operations. Traffic at the port has


increased from 68,000 containers in 2013 to 183,000 in 2017, fuelled partly by the


rise in the number of regional distribution centres along the M1 / M62 corridor. ABP says that cargoes originally destined for ports such as Dover are moving increasingly north as trade partners look at alternatives in face of difficulties in the south of England. Last year, ABP announced a £50 million investment in its


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DFDS said on 16 August it had ordered a further freight ferry from the Chinese Jinling Shipyard, exercising an option obtained when ordering previous ferries. The newbuilding will be similar to the five previously ordered freight ferries and likewise designed to carry 6,700 lane metres of freight, equivalent to around 450 trailers and will be deployed in northern Europe or the Mediterranean. The first two new ferries are expected to be received in the beginning of next year, the third and fourth in the second half of 2019 and the last two in the first half of 2020.


Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta says that the country is planning to revive its state-owned shipping line with the help of the Mediterranean Shipping (MSC), according to news agency Bloomburg. Kenyatta has signed an agreement with MSC’s first vice president Giovanni Cuomo.


DP World has placed an order for 12 hybrid straddle carriers at its terminal in Southampton. They use regenerating technology to charge modern Lithium-ion batteries and are expected to use 20% less fuel and cut emissions compared with diesel-electric machines. They will be in operation by spring 2019.


The Marine Management Organisation has approved Dover Harbour Board (DHB)’s application for aggregate dredging in the South Goodwin Sands area. The marine licence gives DHB permission to extract up to 3 million tonnes of aggregate by trailer suction hopper dredging between September 2019 and September 2020 to provide fill material for the Dover Western Docks Revival project.


Shipping minister Nusrat Ghani officially opened Portsmouth International Port’s new £9m linkspan on 9 August. It is the first step in a £20m investment programme at the second-largest cross-channel port and received over £500,000 in EU funding, with the rest of the £9m provided by Portsmouth City Council, which owns the port.


Peel Ports London Medway has completed a £5.4m investment programme in its grain facilities at the Port of Sheerness. It includes the refurbishment of warehousing to TASCC standards and installation of an elevator/conveyor, together with new Liebherr LHM 280 cranes.


Hapag-Lloyd has ordered 11,100 new reefer containers. They will join the company’s existing fleet of 91,000 units, with delivery gradually starting in August and due to be completed by December.


German-owned shipping line Hapag-Lloyd plans to expand its East Africa Service with a weekly connection to and from Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Khor Fakkan, Jebel Ali, Mombasa and Dar es Salaam in September. It follows the launch earlier this year of a weekly service between Jeddah, Mombasa and Dar es Salaam.


MSC and its VSA partners in the IPAK service to and from the Indian subcontinent suspended the service’s Felixstowe call on and replace it with London Gateway from 9 September. It followed problems with a new IT system at the Suffolk port.


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container terminals in Hull and Immingham. The first, £14m, phase saw the expansion of the Hull Container Terminal and the arrival of two purpose-built gantry cranes to support its operations. Following continued growth


in container volumes across the two ports in 2017, a second phase of the £50 million


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3 ABP to invest in Immingham box terminal


investment has now begun and will see ABP spending £36 million on the container terminal in Immingham. Following the investment


in Hull last year, the port has attracted regular container services by Samskip and I Motion to Amsterdam and Ghent. ABP expects the latest investment in Immingham


could support further growth in volumes of around 50% by 2020. Regional


director Humber, Simon Bird,


for ABP said:


“Trade through the Humber Ports remains buoyant and we are confident that this trend will continue as we invest in our infrastructure. “The Humber Ports play a


vital role as a gateway for trade across the North of England, the Midlands and beyond, and we are committed to seizing the opportunities that lie ahead of us. The port of Immingham is already the biggest port in the country by tonnage, but signs are indicating that we have the potential to grow significantly in the coming years.”


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