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Nigeria’s Vice President Shettima inaugurated a US$115 million upgrade of APM Terminals' West Africa Container Terminal in Onne on 4 September. The project includes yard expansion, new equipment and a modern office complex. New mobile harbour cranes, rubber tyre gantries and other advanced cargo handling equipment will significantly reduce turnaround time while an improved operating model will boost efficiency at the quay, yard, and gate.
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Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo officially launched the second phase of the Tema Port Expansion Project was officially launched on 15 November. It will include a fleet of 15 gantry cranes at the Meridian Port Services terminal and the paving of 270,000 sq m, expanding the terminal’s footprint from ...
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APM Terminals has launched the first service the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail corridor. The service is expected to move 90 containers a day. APMT first restored rail service in the port in 2013 to Kano and Kaduna on the existing narrow gauge rail line.
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APM Terminals has signed a partnership with Vietnam’s HATECO group to develop two new deep-water berths at Lach Huyen port in Haiphong, in the north of the country. Each berth will 450 metres long, capable of accommodating container vessels of up to 18,000teu and in the initial phase, the facility ...
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Frederik Klinke has been appointed country managing director, Nigeria at APM Terminals, taking over from Klaus Holm Laursen, who moves head of joint ventures, Africa and Europe. Frederik Klinke has been with AP Moller - Maersk since 2006. Most recently, he was regional head of finance for Africa and Middle ...
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APM Terminals Apapa says it is close to gaining a connection with the new Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line. On a visit to the port, Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, said that arrangements had been made to remove a Customs building housing a radiation scanner, which had ...
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APM Terminals Elizabeth in New Jersey is offering a direct-to-rail landing zone section to expedite rail cargo. Once cargo arrives at the Millennium Marine Rail-operated terminal, port labour and APM Terminals teams build doublestack trains for fast handoff to three Class I railroads to take them to inland markets 2-4 ...
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APM Terminals is to appoint Birna Ósk Einarsdóttir as its new chief commercial officer, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, from January 2022. She was previously with Icelandair and also held roles at at Iceland Telecom and the National Power Company of Iceland. Jonathan Goldner, who had been the ...
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APMT’s Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT) in Jordan has received new equipment including four empty container handlers and one reach stacker. The new machines have been customised to meet ACT’s unique requirements and specifications, and feature state-of-the-art technological innovations, including spacious, modern operator cabs that offer exceptional visibility in all directions.
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APM Terminals has opened a Fast Corridor between its Vado Ligure’s reefer terminal’s temporary storage warehouse in north-west Italy and customer Nord Ovest, 75 kilometres away in Mondovi. It allows import containers to pass directly through the terminal, without the issue of T1 customs transit documents.
The concept, under a new ...
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