CIS Liepaja, an umbrella organisation gathering Norwegian and Latvian companies, and Vindr Latvia, a developer of onshore wind energy projects, have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore long-term energy supply for a new green hydrogen production facility in Liepāja.
The Estonian company, tasked with managing 18 cargo & passenger harbours throughout the country, has picked the Norwegian firm's cloud-based Port Management Information System (PMIS) to digitalise its operations.
Across Europe, ports are racing to meet their ambitious targets on cutting carbon emissions. The shipping industry, responsible for nearly 3.0% of global CO2 emissions, is under growing pressure to decarbonise its operations - and the first battleground is at berth.
The cement producer Nuh Çimento saw the installation of the 124-tonne lifting capacity portal slewing crane at its 5.0-million-tonne/year Hereke port in the Gulf of İzmit.
The company's terminal in the Port of Cuxhaven is growing with 19 hectares of waterfront and 600 metres of quay wall - and an LHM 600 mobile harbour crane to handle heavy-lifts (including for the wind energy industry).
The under-construction Madrid-Vicálvaro Intermodal Terminal has received the first of three automated rail-mounted gantries (A-RMG) from the Riga-based crane manufacturer.
Eckerö Line's ferry will be retrofitted with a battery pack during her early 2026 dry-dock, an investment that's expected to cut the ship's yearly bunker consumption by around 3.0% (some 500-600 tonnes of fuel).
The €2.9-million project, funded by the EU Interreg Central Baltic Programme, will see the development of smart surface vessels equipped with pollution detection sensors.
The Riga-based manufacturer of heavy-lifting equipment has installed a second rail-mounted gantry (RMG) for container operations at First Dry Port Terminal in Tashkent.
