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  • Chairman Site Visit | OPCA Member from HONG KONG | PIONEER SEA & AIR LTD.

    13 Feb 2015 10:21 AM | Anonymous

    Chairman of Overseas Project Cargo Association (OPCA),- Mr.Kemal KIRIKKANAT visited OPCA Hong Kong member "PIONEER SEA & AIR LTD." on FEB 2015.  Pioneer is a professional logistics company who has great experience in project cargo. Mr.Kemal said "My meeting with Pioneer Team was more than perfect. Starting from my first step into their office, I was very well welcomed and the conversation we had with Mr.Luke, Mr.Kun and Mr.Jay was like old friends in real meaning. I enjoyed every moment of the meeting. Especially, I had deep conversation with Mr.Kun regarding networking, he kindly mentioned their expectations from OPCA Management which I totally agree on every single point. After our meeting at their office, we went lunch together with Mr.Luke and Mr.Kun to a nice restaurant close to their office. We talked about history, OPCA AGMs and even about young generation. I must say that I look forward to meeting PIONEER TEAM who is professional in business and sincere in friendship. Thanks my friends at PIONEER Team".



    Mr.Luke stated that all members need to focus on providing project cargo one another and should do his best to make sales in an effective way since it is one of driven tools for the network.

    Mr.Kemal said "Mr.Luke is a quite busy business professional and he is sensitive on customer satisfaction. Once you had time with him, you can understand that he follows the operational process closely."


    Mr.Kemal said "Mr.Kun is a quality focused business professional. Therefore, he mentioned that he would like to see and cooperate with OPCA agents based on mutual benefits, - and grow together."

    PIONEER Logistics break-bulk services are always customized to meet client's shipping needs of over-sized, odd-sized or over-weight cargoes like train, boat, pipes, construction material, cranes, heavy lifters, etc.
    Mr.Kemal said "I had many email exchanges with Mr.Jay during last year and it was my pleasure to meet him in person. As I always mention, meeting face to face and one to one is the sole solution to start a friendship as well as cooperation.
    PIONEER WEBSITE (CLICK HERE!) | PIONEER OPCA PROFILE (CLICK HERE!)

  • Adani Ports Opens Kandla Bulk Terminal

    11 Feb 2015 1:15 PM | Anonymous

    Original news was published on 11 February, 2015

    India’s port developer Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), opened a bulk terminal at Tuna Tekra, Kandla Port, with an annual handling capacity of over 20 million tonnes.

    The consortium led by APSEZ, formed a Special Purpose Entity named Adani Kandla Bulk Terminal after winning the contract in June 2012 to set up the bulk terminal. The terminal was completed within the stipulated time frame.

    The dry bulk cargo handling terminal facilities includes a T shaped jetty with four bulk berths, a vessel handling capacity of 1,00,000 DWT with (-) 16.2 m CD dredged depth and a capacity of 20 MMTPA.

    “The port facility is our fourth in Gujarat and fifth on the entire western coast. This new facility will play a crucial role in the Make In India campaign. We are now aiming to complete the container terminal project in Chennai in a record time frame,” said Sudipta Bhattacharya, CEO, APSEZ.

    APSEZ also operates ports in Mundra, Hazira and Dahej, in Gujarat, Dhamra in Odisha and operates specialized coal handling facilities in Mormugao in Goa, Visakhapatinam in Andhra Pradesh. It is currently setting up a container terminal in Tuticorin, Chennai.

    *NEWS SOURCE

  • SAL Heavy Lift Completes West African Transport

    09 Feb 2015 4:18 PM | Anonymous

    Original news was published on 09 February, 2015

    SAL Heavy Lift’s Frauke has completed a six-month project transporting oversize cargoes for a West African offshore development.

    This was no simple point A to point B transport. Two 620-tonne empty carousels, measuring 12 meters high and 26 meters wide, were loaded on the heavy-lift vessel in the Netherlands and carried to the U.S. Stateside, more than 2,000 tonnes of umbilicals were spooled onto the carousels, which brought their weights up to 1,465 tonnes and 1,875 tonnes.

    Especially challenging was the load plan that had to account for the heavy weight of the cargo on the hatch covers, SAL Heavy Lift said in a statement. Custom-built steel supports were installed beneath each cover and a grillage was designed to spread the weight of the heavier carousel.

    SAL Heavy Lift’s Frauke then transported the cargo to the West African project site. Frauke remained onsite for two months, providing support to the installation vessel. Upon completion, Frauke brought the no-empty carousels back to the Netherlands.

    *NEWS SOURCE

  • Steel Helps Port of Indiana Achieve All-time Record

    06 Feb 2015 11:04 AM | Anonymous

    Original news was published on 05 February,2015

    The Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville handled over 2.4 million tons of cargo in 2014, surging 48 percent over results from the previous year. This was the first time annual shipments exceeded 2 million tons in the port’s 29-year history.

    The 2014 total was 464,000 tons higher than the previous record set in 2006. In particular, steel volume increased 72 percent over 2013.

    “We also had tremendous growth in the port’s ‘steel campus’ in 2014 as five companies announced over US$50 million of new investments related to steel processing,” Ports of Indiana CEO Rich Cooper said in a statement.

    In 2014, Mill Steel Co., of Grand Rapids, Mich., opened a new flat-rolled steel service center at the port as part of its expansion of an existing 105,000 square foot facility at the port. The Diez Group, part of Delaco Steel of Dearborn, Mich., and Louisville’s Steel Technologies began a new joint-venture operation at the port, Delaco Kasle Processing of Indiana. The new operation will expand the former venture’s 120,000-square-foot facility to 226,000 square feet and process aluminum, steel coils and blanks for the automotive, appliance and agricultural industries. Voss Clark, Steel Dynamics and Metals USA also made major investments to accelerate line speeds, increase capacity and improve high-strength steel processing. The port now has 13 steel-related businesses located on its steel campus.

    The Port of Indiana will soon get a boost from the opening of the US$$2.6 billion Louisville Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges project.

    “When the new interstate bridge opens in 2016 just a mile away, this port will have significantly improved access to new markets in the region stretching from Louisville and Cincinnati to Lexington and Nashville,” Port Director Scott Stewart said.

    The Port of Indiana now has 28 companies and 325 acres of industrial sites available for multimodal transports, including river and rail. The port offers year-round barge service to more than 20 states and ocean vessels in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as rail service provided by CSX, Louisville-Indiana Railroad and onsite switching operations by MG Rail.


    *NEWS SOURCE

  • Greenland’s Nuuk Harbour to Get New Container Terminal

    04 Feb 2015 2:08 PM | Anonymous
    Original news was published on 03 February, 2015

    Danish general infrastructure contractor Aarsleff has entered into an agreement with Sikuki Nuuk Harbour A/S about the establishment of a new container terminal in Nuuk, Greenland.

    The first phase will comprise initial planning and preparations. The final contract is expected to be signed in a couple of months.

    The project will be carried out as a design and build contract and has a value of DKK 402 million (USD 61.3m). The work in Nuuk will commence at the beginning of March and is expected to be completed in November 2016.

    The contract will cover all work for the construction of the 50,000-square metre container terminal. The work comprises blasting of 300,000 cubic metres of hard rock within the new harbour area, construction of a 300-metre-long quay, establishment of a yard for containers and dredging of the new harbour basin.


    *NEWS SOURCE

  • Cargo on the up at GPA

    02 Feb 2015 1:26 PM | Anonymous
    Original news was published on 02 February, 2015

    The Port of Brunswick continued its strong performance in auto and machinery trade, moving 688,575 units for the year. Combined with ro-ro trade through the Port of Savannah's Ocean Terminal, GPA moved 716,055 units in 2014, an 8.6 percent (57,190-unit) increase over 2013.

    Breakbulk cargo, including forest products, iron and steel, improved by 12 percent to reach 2.74 million tonnes during 2014 through GPA gateways.

    "In 2014, we saw phenomenal growth in every category," said GPA executive director Curtis Foltz. "Georgia's ports benefited from an improving retail economy, renewed strength in manufacturers' orders of raw goods, and the expanding population of the Southeast."

    Counting containerised, bulk and breakbulk cargo, total tonnage reached 30.39 million tonnes, up 2.09 million for the calendar year.

    During December 2014, GPA moved a record 68,684 automotive and heavy equipment units, for a year-over-year increase of 20.1 percent (11,507 units).

    The strong performance realised by the GPA could be attributed to the labour disputes currently hampering some US West Coast ports, causing freight to be diverted to other gateways.


    *NEWS SOURCE

  • Iraq Mulls Foreign Investors for Grand Faw Port Project

    30 Jan 2015 2:59 PM | Anonymous

    Original news was published 30 January, 2015

    Iraq may open its Grand Faw Port project to foreign investors. The multi-billion project, located south of Basra, has been stalled for several years.

    “The transport ministry is unable to execute the Grand Faw port project, which will have a total cost of nearly six billion dollars,” Iraq’s Transport Minister Baqr Jabr Al-Zubeidi said in a press conference, according to Emirates 24/7. “We cannot secure these funds so the ministry is studying awarding the project on an investment basis for execution.”

    Construction progress on the port has been limited. In 2013, Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction won a US$693 million contract to build Grand Faw’s breakwater. Daewoo was to complete the 15.8-kilometer western breakwater by 2016, but the project was delayed due to political conflicts and security issues.

    Italian engineering firm Technital has prepared the designs for the port, which will have a capacity of 99 million tonnes per year, a 39-kilometer container quay and another 2-kilometer berth for general cargo, Al-Zubeidi said. According to Iraq’s plan, goods unloaded at the new port would then be loaded onto a new railway system and reach Europe overland more quickly than ships might reach Egypt’s Suez Canal.


    *NEWS SOURCE

  • Evergreen Joins 18,000 TEU Club

    28 Jan 2015 4:51 PM | Anonymous
    Original news was published on 28 January, 2015

    Taiwan’s Evergreen Group, the owner of the world’s fifth largest container shipping company Evergreen Line, has signed charter agreements for eleven 18,000 TEU container ships with Japan’s Shoei Kisen Kaisha, Thai news site Investor reports.

    The order includes six 18,000 TEU ships which Evergreen Marine Corp., another subsidiary of Evergreen Group, ordered from Shoei Kisen Kaisha back in December.

    The vessels will be delivered throughout 2018 and 2019.

    Evergreen has decided to go with the 18,000 TEU container ships to respond to the market demand and meet the capacity requirements within its joint service.

    Back in December, Evergreen took delivery of the 27th out of 30 L-type, 8,508 TEU container ships ordered at CSBC Corporation in Taiwan back in 2012.

    Evergreen has already taken delivery of five 8,800 TEU and ten 13,800 TEU chartered ships, with another ten chartered 14,000 TEU ships to be delivered in 2016/17.

    Evergreen currently operates sixty-six ships within the medium to ultra-large size range.

  • First Gate Installed in Panama Canal’s Pacific New Locks

    26 Jan 2015 12:30 PM | Anonymous
    Original news was published on 26 January, 2015

    The first gate for the new locks on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal expansion project has been installed.

    The steel rolling gate weighed 2,300 tons and measured 57.6 meters long, 8 meters wide and 22.28 meters high. It was carried to the installation site on a SPMTs with more than 400 wheels apiece, the Panama Canal Authority said in a statement.

    The gate, is the first of eight gates that will be installed in the new locks on the Pacific side of the waterway. The installation of the gates began in December 2014 at the Atlantic side, where two gates of its eight gates have been installed.

    The latest gate installation brings completion of the project to 85 percent.

  • Singapore's PSA International up 5.8pc in 2014 to 65.44 million TEU

    23 Jan 2015 2:15 PM | Anonymous

    Original news was published on 23 January, 2015

    SINGAPORE PSA International has posted a 5.8 per cent year-on-year increase in container throughput worldwide in 2014 to 65.44 million TEU, the company reported.

    Company flagship, PSA Singapore Terminals, posted a 4.1 per cent increase in container throughput, which contributed 33.55 million TEU to the global volume with PSA terminals outside Singapore, which handled 31.89 million TEU, up 7.8 per cent year on year.

    "Last year was challenging for the shipping and port industry. Global trade growth was modest and that, coupled with the introduction of many mega vessels, resulted in overcapacity and low freight rates for liner carriers," said PSA Group CEO Tan Chong Meng.

    "The increasingly large ships and complex alliances have also led to much greater operational demands being placed on port operators; this is a structural shift which will impact all ports as ships across all shipping routes continue to upsize," he said.

    "For 2015, we will continue to engage our customers and partners worldwide, as we strive to increase our network of terminals alongside them and to become their preferred port partner. We will continue to make the necessary investments to stretch our capabilities and enhance our operational efficiency to serve them as they grow their businesses with us well into the future," he said.

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