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ABP has appointed Henrik Pedersen as its new chief executive, taking over from James Cooper, who announced his retirement after ten years in the post last Setpember.
Pedersen (pictured) joins ABP from AP Moller-Maersk’s APM Terminals arm, where he has served as chief commercial officer since January 2017 following 20 years with the group. He takes up his new ABP role in August.
He said: “With ABP handling around 25% of the ...
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ABP Southampton handled its largest container ship yet this weekend - CMA CGM’s 400m long , 20,656teu Antoine De Saint Exupery.
She is longer than four football fields and if all her containers were laid end to end they would stretch from Southampton to Enfield, north - 78 miles.
Only two years ...
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ABP’s Port of Ayr has taken delivery of a new Liebherr Materials Handler crane, making it the first port in the UK to purchase the model.
With a lifting capacity of 8.1 tonnes at a reach of 23.8m the new machine will help Ayr speed vessel discharge rates while improving fuel ...
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Associated British Ports has started work on a £4.5 million project to build additional warehousing at Newport to accommodate growth in agri cargo. The new 21 Shed will provide an additional 70,000sq ft of covered bulk storage.
Newport saw year-on year growth of 14% in bulk fertiliser imports during 2017 and ...
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ABP’s Port of Ipswich handled the highest tonnage for Brett Aggregates since 2000 during 2017. Both parties have been investing in port infrastructure and equipment, including Brett’s new processing plant and rail capacity An extra 90,361 tonnes was handled this year, a 27% year on year increase.
Marine-dredged aggregates arrive by ...
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ABP’s Port of Teignmouth handled its highest cargo tonnage since 2008 - over 450,000 tonnes in 2017. Traffic included clay, animal feed and aggregates. Investment included an £850,000 new Mantsinen crane.
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Port of Southampton owner and operator ABP predicts that 2018 looks set to be another record-breaking year.
Director Alastair Welch says that, following the success of 2017, when the largest vessels in the world came to Southampton and more than one million containers were handled by the port, 2018 will see ...
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Captain Phil Buckley (right) takes over as harbour master at the port of Southampton when Captain Martin Phipps retires.
He is now responsible for the safe navigation of all vessels on one of the busiest waterways in the world and across the wider Solent – last year 160,000 vessel movements, including ...
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The Welsh Government has put forward a package of measures costing around £135m to mitigate the effect of the new M4 relief road on ABP’s port of Newport, the BBC reports. They include providing new buildings for firms operating in the port and developing the south dock as an alternative ...
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ABP says it could become one of the biggest corporate solar power producers in the UK after it announced plans to build a further 20MW of solar arrays.
Ultimately ABP’s 21 ports could house 100,000 solar panels generating up to 22.4m kWh of electricity each year – enough to boil more ...
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