Europe’s largest port, the Port of Rotterdam, handled 469.4 million tons of cargo last year, only fractionally higher than the 469 million tons it handled in 2018. However, container throughput, measured in tons, grew by 2.5 percent while box throughput measured in TEUs increased by 2.1 percent, with more than 14.8 million TEUs handled.

Russia’s Glavgosexpertiza has approved design documentation and engineering survey findings covering construction of a new LNG transshipment facility in the country’s Kamchatka Territory. The terminal is intended to handle the transshipment of LNG from the Yamal peninsula gas fields in the Gulf of Ob from ice-class gas carriers onto non-ice-class tankers for onward delivery to destinations in the Asia-Pacific Region. The design documentation foresees five phases of construction and development of the facility, which will be built in Bechevinskaya Bay approximately 100 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Upon first-phase completion the terminal will have an annual handling capacity of 11 million tons…

DP World has completed its acquisition of Fraser Surrey Docks (FSD) in British Columbia through its Canadian subsidiary, DP World Canada Investment, from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners. Dubai-based DP World, which also operates terminals within Vancouver harbor and at Prince Rupert, announced it would acquire FSD last year (see Pacific Maritime Magazine, July 2019). The facility has more than 1,200 meters of berthing and 189 acres of yard area on the Fraser River and has been handling grain, steel, containers and project cargoes.