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Van Oord breaks its own Subsea Rock Installation world record
Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has set a new world record. The vessel carried out subsea rock installation works in a record water depth of 1.364 meters. A distance comparable to almost five times the length of the Eiffel tower! The …
May 12, 2023 / Curious
Port of Corpus Christi Sets New Tonnage Record For Third Quarter Fueled by Crude Exports
The Port of Corpus Christi set another tonnage record in the third quarter of 2022, driven in large part by record exports of crude oil. The new quarterly tonnage record of 48.3 million tons surpassed the previous tonnage record set in the second …
Nov 14, 2022 / Curious
Port of Antwerp: Draught record broken at Deurganck Dock
First trial for increasing draught on the Western Scheldt river successfulThe first trial run as part of a potential extension of the maximum draught of the Western Scheldt river has been carried out successfully. On Sunday, the MSC REGULUS entered …
Mar 1, 2021 / Curious
Port of Baltimore sets another record for container moves with 6,000 from single ship
Volume From Maersk Edinburgh Continues Trends Aided by E-CommerceThe Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore has set another record at the Seagirt Marine Terminal this week, with 6,000 container moves conducted by longshore workers from the Maersk …
Feb 15, 2021 / Vessels
Busiest US Seaport, Buried in Imports, Plucks out Toys to Load Santa's Sleigh
Workers at the busiest U.S. seaport are plucking containers of toys off ships and out of massive stacks of cargo swamping docks at the Southern California trade gateway to get holiday gifts under trees in time for Christmas.“We’ve never had this much …
Dec 16, 2020 / Finance
The CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE has set a new world record for the number of full containers loaded on a single vessel
A world record: 20,723 full containers onboard the CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE departing Singapore. A major operational and commercial achievement for a pioneering vessel designed to preserve air quality and accelerate energy transition in the shipping …
Oct 14, 2020 / Vessels
PortMiami records best performance in its history
PortMiami set a new record-breaking year in collaboration with its partners. During the 12-month period ending September 30, 2019, the Port experienced a 3.4 % gain in cargo with a total of 1,120,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) and a 22% …
Jan 15, 2020 / Curious
Port Everglades Tops World Record by 79 Passengers
Port Everglades beat its own world record on December 1, 2019, with 79 more passengers than its previous record set in 2016. Once all the manifests were tallied, a total of 55,964 passengers sailed in and out of Port Everglades in a single day, …
Dec 20, 2019 / Cruise
Panama Canal Closes 2019 Fiscal Year with Record Tonnage
The Panama Canal has closed the 2019 fiscal year (FY19) with a record tonnage of 469 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS), a 6.2 percent increase compared to FY2018. With this figure, the waterway exceeds the 450.7 million PC/UMS tons projection for …
Oct 10, 2019 / Curious
MOL Starts Demonstration Test of Vessel Image Recognition System Using AI Technology on Nippon Maru (Video)
FOCUS EYE Project, Rising to the Developing Automated Watch-keepingTOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced the joint development, along with SenseTime Japan Ltd., of a new vessel image recognition and recording system, and the system’s …
Sep 13, 2019 / Curious