Port News

Spying for the Irish or Germans?
Oh, apparently this crane is “spy proof”:

Are the Aussies getting out of a bad deal, or does Blackstone know something Macquarie don’t?:

The workers fare a lot better when it comes to pay.

We want no f**ing automation in our ports:

Hard work and sweat is what we want!!!

They somehow forgot to mention that the cranes were manufactured in China.
HLV Biglift Baffin’s voyage commenced in TAICANG:


Dock workers operate hoisting equipment to load two STS container bridge cranes, each weighing 1,404 tons, onto the Dutch-registered large-scale transport ship Biglift Barentsz on June 15, 2023, at Runhe Wharf of Taicang Port, Suzhou, in East China’s Jiangsu Province. After loading, the ship’s maximum width was extended from 42 meters to 159.33 meters, setting a new record for the widest ship navigating the Yangtze River. Photo: VCG

Singapore is still at the top as the busiest port in the world overall:

And the second busiest Container port (after Shanghai) counted in number of TEUs handled per year:

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A computer-generated image of plans for Burntisland