Global Maritime

Propelling safety standards upwards at APM Terminals Port Elizabeth

17 enero, 2023

When you are in a life-threatening situation, the last thing you want is to be stuck in traffic. And around Port Elizabeth, APM Terminal’s largest terminal on the east coast of North America, busy roads are one thing you can be sure of. Source: APM Terminals The terminal handles more than 2,500 trucks and 5,000 terminal gate transactions every day and rising. With high demand and traffic volume, the inability to clear a path for medical vehicles was a serious concern. Identified risk In response, Port Elizabeth’s Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) team called on the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) to help them assess the viability of installing a helipad at the site. Members of the HSSE and Operations teams joined the police in an aerial assessment to pinpoint the best location for the helipad. Candice Revill, Site Director HSSE at APM Terminals Elizabeth, said she and the team were “incredibly grateful” to the NJSP aviation crew, with whom they worked to identify and set a landing zone, as well as The Port Authority, Port Authority Police Department and the NJSP, to name a just a few of the stakeholders that helped make this happen. Support on call

Inicia la temporada de fin de año con el sello #SeguridadDimarEs

17 enero, 2023

Fuente: Dimar La Dirección General Marítima (Dimar) da la bienvenida a la temporada alta de fin de año con medidas para garantizar el disfrute de los turistas, todo esto enmarcado en la campaña #SeguridadDimarEs. Para ello desplegará diariamente más de 200 hombres y mujeres en los puntos de despacho de embarcaciones y en las playas con vocación turística, que estarán apoyados por ocho (8) estaciones de control de tráfico marítimo y ocho (8) botes tipo pilot o de bahía mayor, los cuales supervisarán que el desarrollo de las actividades marítimas y fluviales cumplan las medidas de seguridad establecidas en la normatividad marítima vigente, de mismo modo, realizará inspecciones verificando el cumplimiento de las concesiones y permisos temporales vigentes, evitando ocupaciones indebidas en las mismas. Se espera que esta temporada sea tan, o más fructífera, que la de 2021, en donde se registraron 30.141 zarpes de embarcaciones de transporte marítimo de pasajeros, en los que se movilizaron 520.138 personas, la mayoría de las cuales disfrutaron de los paisajes de Santa Marta, seguida de Cartagena y Buenaventura. Por eso, dada la histórica afluencia en la temporada, la campaña #SeguridadDimarEs recuerda a visitantes y prestadores de servicios las recomendaciones para evitar la ocurrencia

Supporting Yemen to develop a legal framework to enhance maritime security

16 enero, 2023

Source: IMO IMO is assisting the Maritime Affairs Authority, Yemen, to put in place a legal framework that gives full and complete effect to IMO instruments dealing with maritime security. The five-day workshop (8-12 January) in Aden aims to sensitize national stakeholders on the content of IMO circular MSC.1/Circ.1525 on Guidance for the development of national maritime security legislation, in order to develop national legislation giving full and complete effect to the relevant maritime security measures (SOLAS chapter XI-2 and the ISPS Code); as well as on the objectives of the Red Sea Project. The workshop is hosted by the Maritime Affairs Authority, Yemen, and brings together 36 participants from the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs Authority, Yemen Gulf of Aden Ports Corporation and Yemen Arabian Sea Ports Corporation. This is part of the programme of activities under the multi-year “Regional Programme for Maritime Security in the Red Sea Area” which is funded by the European Union and jointly delivered by IMO, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), INTERPOL and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Under this programme, IMO aims to assist participating countries to enhance maritime security and safety in the Red Sea Area, in line

The year 2022 closes with a 13.1% drop in the cost of export freight from Valenciaport

13 enero, 2023

Source: Valenciaport The Valencia Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) closes the year 2022 with a fall of -13.10% in December compared to November. This is the fourth consecutive month of decline in the Index, in a year marked by ups and downs that reflects the uncertainty of economic and commercial activity in all markets. The VCFI stands at the close of this financial year at 3,603.07 points (it had not been below 4,000 points since November 2021), which represents a growth of 260.31% since the start of the series in 2018. In this last month of the year, the decrease in freight rates from Central America and the Caribbean (-22.61%), Latin America Pacific (-17.37%), USA and Canada (-13.09%), Western Mediterranean (-11.43%) and Far East (-7.51%) should be highlighted. From the point of view of international trade demand, the scenario remains uncertain and complicated, due to the sustained fall in consumption in an environment of high inflation. Proof of this is the recent reading of the Goods Trade Barometer, produced by the World Trade Organization (WTO), which shows a drop in the indicator to 98.3 points, slightly below its reference value of 100 and seven points below the previous reading, which took

HHLA and Linde Engineering build hydrogen filling station in the Port of Hamburg

12 enero, 2023

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has commissioned Linde Engineering to build a hydrogen filling station within the scope of its Clean Port & Logistics innovation cluster. The filling station will be part of the test centre for hydrogen-powered port logistics at the Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) in the Port of Hamburg. Source: Port of Hamburg The hydrogen filling station is being developed within the scope of HHLA’s Clean Port & Logistics cluster to fuel hydrogen-powered heavy goods vehicles and terminal equipment and to test them in operation. HHLA will operate the filling station as part of its cluster activities in the Port of Hamburg. Linde Engineering and HHLA are thus creating a reliable refuelling infrastructure for heavy equipment in the Port of Hamburg. The filling station is expected to begin operation in 2023. The heart of the filling station is an energy-efficient high-pressure ionic compressor that compresses the hydrogen up to 450 bar. This will allow equipment such as straddle carriers, empty container stackers, forklift trucks, reach stackers, terminal tractor units and trucks to be refuelled with hydrogen efficiently. Moreover, the filling station incorporates various options for expansion. “Our commissioning of Linde Engineering to build the hydrogen filling station

WTTC reacts to the imposition of travel restrictions on Chinese travellers

11 enero, 2023

Source: WTTC Julia Simpson, WTTC President & CEO, said: “After nearly three years, it is great news that China is finally opening up. Chinese visitors around the world contributed U.S.$ 253 billion to the global economy in 2019, creating jobs and boosting regional economies. The recovery of the Chinese Travel & Tourism sector is very welcome. Introducing knee-jerk travel restrictions shows Governments have learned nothing about the behaviour of this virus and continue to ignore the World Health Organization’s advice that border restrictions do not stop the virus mutating or moving around the globe. The reintroduction of ineffective COVID testing to Chinese travellers is a step backwards for the global Travel & Tourism sector.”

Vopak focuses on hydrogen imports in Rotterdam with German company

10 enero, 2023

Fuente: Port of Rotterdam Tank storage company Vopak and German hydrogen company Hydrogenious are starting a joint venture in the storage, transport and supply of hydrogen via hydrogen carrier benzyltoluene. Through LOHC Logistix, the companies are committing to building a plant in Rotterdam that can initially decouple 1.5 tonnes of hydrogen per day from this carrier. No final decision on the investment has been made yet. This will first require, among other things, the licensing process to be completed successfully. Both parent companies have, however, committed financially to the project. In June 2022, Vopak announced that it would invest €1 billion in new energy and sustainable commodities until 2030. LOHC technology LOHC Logistix’s ambition is to ‘take hydrogen logistics to the next level’. It does so based on the LOHC technology developed by Hydrogenious. LOHCs (liquid organic hydrogen carriers) facilitate the transport and storage of hydrogen by binding it to a chemical compound, a hydrogen carrier such as a paste or an oil. Without such a carrier, the transport of hydrogen would require a temperature of -253°C. By comparison, for LNG (liquefied natural gas) this is -160°C. In addition, storing hydrogen without a carrier requires tanks that can withstand extremely

Colombia: Avanza sin incidentes temporada de fin de año en Buenaventura

10 enero, 2023

Fuente: Dimar La Dirección General Marítima, por medio de su Capitanía de Puerto de Buenaventura, ha desplegado sus capacidades de infraestructura y de personal para garantizar la seguridad de los visitantes en esta temporada alta. Es así como, desde el 1 de diciembre que inició la pretemporada, se reunió con las empresas de transporte marítimo y los motoristas de las naves de pasaje, con el fin de alistar las embarcaciones que desarrollarían actividades durante esta época, como resultado 111 de estas fueron inspeccionadas evidenciando el cumplimiento de la normatividad. Gracias a esta preparación y al trabajo articulado con la Armada de Colombia, la Secretaría de Turismo Distrital, la Secretaría de Salud Distrital, el Consejo Distrital de Gestión de Riesgo, la Defensa Civil, el Cuerpo de Bomberos, la Policía Nacional y los consejos comunitarios, Buenaventura ha recibido 28.767 personas en 1.219 zarpes, sin ningún incidente que lamentar. En las últimas horas se realizó el lanzamiento oficial de la temporada, en donde Dimar ratificó su compromiso con mantener la seguridad integral marítima y salvaguardar la vida de los turistas que visitan la jurisdicción con la intención de disfrutar de playas paradisiacas como Bocana, Pianguita, Juanchaco, Playa Dorada, entre otras. La Dirección General

Passenger Recovery Continues in November

10 enero, 2023

Source: IATA The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that the air travel recovery continued through November 2022. Total traffic in November 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 41.3% compared to November 2021. Globally, traffic is now at 75.3% of November 2019 levels.International traffic rose 85.2% versus November 2021. The Asia-Pacific continued to report the strongest year-over-year results with all regions showing improvement compared to the prior year. November 2022 international RPKs reached 73.7% of November 2019 levels.Domestic traffic for November 2022 was up 3.4% compared to November 2021 with travel restrictions in China continuing to dampen the global result. Total November 2022 domestic traffic was at 77.7% of the November 2019 level. “Traffic results in November reinforce that consumers are thoroughly enjoying the freedom to travel. Unfortunately, the reactions to China’s reopening of international travel in January reminds us that many governments are still playing science politics when it comes to COVID-19 and travel. Epidemiologists, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and others have said that the reintroduction of testing for travelers from China can do little to contain a virus that is already present around the world. And China’s objections to these policy measures are compromised

Flying over Latin America and the Caribbean: COLOMBIA. The how plays a key role

6 enero, 2023

We begin a new year reaffirming ALTA\’s strong mission to represent the voice of the aviation industry in Latin America and the Caribbean and to build bridges of collaboration within the industry and between the public and private sectors. We need to continue advancing on critical measures to make the region more competitive for the development of air transport, generate greater opportunities for the population and greater benefits for the countries. Source: ALTA We begin a new year reaffirming ALTA’s strong mission to represent the voice of the aviation industry in Latin America and the Caribbean and to build bridges of collaboration within the industry and between the public and private sectors. We need to continue advancing on critical measures to make the region more competitive for the development of air transport, generate greater opportunities for the population and greater benefits for the countries. Building these bridges involves consistent teamwork, contributing technical knowledge, listening and making proposals. Since its inception, aviation has been an industry that challenges the status quo through innovation, that generates opportunities that were not thought of before, that generates development. And this has been and is possible when an ecosystem that works together is activated. This

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