JAKARTA (Indonesia Today) – Finnish company Konecranes Oyj has signed an agreement with state-owned terminal operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III to deliver container handling equipment at Lamong Bay Terminal in Surabaya, East Java. The order comprises of 10 Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes, 20 Automated Stacking Cranes (ASC) and 5 Straddle Carriers (SC). Delivery is scheduled…
Jakarta: Japan’s Mitsui & Co has been selected to build, finance and operate the first container terminal at a new port in the Indonesian capital, according to Dow Jones. The new port will be part of the Pelabuhan New Priok Kalibaru Port. “The agreement with Mitsui will ensure that starting September 2014, the first…
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has granted an amnesty to hundreds of young Somali pirates to reduce the threat to shipping in the seas off the Horn of Africa state, a senior regional official said. The amnesty will not apply to bosses running the gangs responsible for hijackings that have ramped up shipping costs…
The judge presiding over BP Plc’s trial over the Macondo well disaster is set to hear from a survivor of the fatal oil rig explosion that sent millions of gallons of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a witness list prepared for the case. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is slated…