PEEL SECURES GREEN AUTOMOTIVE HUB OPPORTUNITY

Piraeus Profits Up

Piraeus Port Authority has announced strong financial results for 2022. Turnover was €194.6 million compared to €154.2 million in 2021, an increase of €40.4 million or 26.2 per cent. Profits before taxes were €74.7 million compared to €49.2 million in the fiscal year 2021, an increase of 51.7 per cent. A strong cruise business sector was a major factor in the positive results, due to the rebound from COVID-19, while container traffic rose by 5.4 per cent.

Brittany Conversion

Peel Ports, enjoying a busy period of securing new business streams, announced in late March plans for a new GBP10 million green automotive hub at a site on the River Mersey.

The hub, to be established in conjunction with logistics company Suardiz and automotive specialist Stellantis, will service a twice-weekly shipping route from Vigo in Spain to the Queen Elizabeth II Dock at Eastham which sits within Peel Port’s Mersey cluster.

The shipping service will supply parts for the Ellesmere Port vehicle manufacturing facility which is set to become the first of Stellantis’s plants to produce solely battery-electric models for commercial and passenger vehicles.

The project is reported as facilitating a greener end-to-end maritime logistics service taking an estimated 14,700 truck journeys annually off roads in the UK and continental Europe.

The hub is based on recommissioning an existing berth which forms part of 9.5 acre site on the River Mersey, adjacent to the Manchester Ship Canal, also operated by Peel Ports.

AD PORTS TARGETS POINTE-NOIRE

MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL

AD Ports Group (ADP) has confirmed the signing of a new Head of Terms (HoT) with the Ministry of International Cooperation and Promotion of Public Private Partnership of the Republic of Congo, for a new multipurpose terminal at Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo.

Under this arrangement, ADP has secured exclusive rights to invest in the development, operation, and management of the “New Mole Port” which is intended to handle cargo including containers, general cargo and break-bulk.

The HoT agreement is valid for one calendar year from the date of signing and could lead to a concession agreement, subject to technical, legal, commercial, and environmental due diligence.

ADP is looking to provide the new facility with digital services and technology solutions, plus operating efficiencies accruing from the design, implementation and operation of a single-window system and generally from software development, digital architecture, business analytics, digital operations support, and digital transformation.

Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso, Minister of International Cooperation and Promotion of Public Private Partnership of the Republic of Congo, notes: “AD Ports’ experience and global network will no doubt add significant value to our efforts to make the ‘New Mole Port’ at Pointe Noire one of the best performing ports on the central west coast of the African continent.”

French shipping giant CMA CGM Group is converting its financial support for Brittany Ferries into an equity position. The company operates between France, the UK, Ireland, and Spain. CMA CGM provided €25 million to Brittany Ferries in September 2021 to support the company’s post-COVID-19 recovery, through €10 million in convertible equity and a €15 million loan. CMA CGM said at the time the partnership would “unlock synergies,” including the cross-channel freight business.

IMO in Angola

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has visited Lobito Port in Angola to assess the progress of the implementation of the IMO-Singapore “Single Window for Facilitation of Trade (SWiFT) Project”. Lobito is piloting the development of a Maritime Single Window (MSW) system to allow electronic submission, through a single online portal, of all information required by various government agencies when a ship calls at the port.

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The US government has released its new National Cybersecurity strategy. The key focus according to the Biden administration is a “rebalancing” of responsibilities for defending cyberspace away from local governments, small businesses and individuals and towards specialised organisations that are capable of limiting the risks.

Apparently, the new strategy is to develop the focus around five specific pillars, namely:

1. Defend Critical Infrastructure

2. Disrupt and Dismantle Threat Actors

3. Shape Market Forces to Drive Security and Resilience

4. Invest in a Resilient Future

5. Forge International Partnerships to Pursue Shared Goals

Adopting this new approach will, according to the US government, enable the main goals of making the US ecosystem more defensible from attack, while ensuring cyber-defence is an easier, cheaper and more effective process overall.

Nexyst 360, a grain transportation solution provider, is partnering with Nexxiot to digitalise its fleet of grain shipping containers.

Through the application of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity hardware, using Nexyst 360’s software solution, dubbed Traceable AG, real-time transport intelligence across the entire container movement journey can be provided.

As a consequence, Traceable AG is able to digitally link farmers, commodities buyers, and

Yilport Leixões TOS

Yilport Holding has confirmed the completion of the integration of the Navis Terminal Operating System (TOS) at its Yilport Leixões terminal in Portugal. Yilport expects this integration process to ensure a more efficient terminal operations system for the facility, by coordinating vessel, cargo and yard operations, and longer term it will also be the base for any future automation and equipment/truck detection systems that could be added.