Turkish companies YDA and Asfat have announced the construction of a shipyard in the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan. The project, which will require investments of 130 billion tenge (approximately 250 million dollars), is planned to be implemented in 2025-2026. The plant will be built near the port of Kurik and will facilitate the production of new vessels to meet the needs of the domestic fleet.
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has completed the installation of three new highly automated container cranes at its Altenwerder terminal (CTA). The first of their kind in the Port of Hamburg, these remotely operated cranes will help to significantly increase the efficiency of container ship handling.
On December 25, the opening of a new airport terminal took place in Shymkent. In the initial period, the terminal will serve daytime domestic flights of SCAT Airlines, and in the near future it is planned to transfer flights of Air Astana and Fly Arystan Airlines.
In 2024, Shanghai’s sea and rail container throughput increased by 30% year-on-year to 900,000 TEUs, driven by the active integration of new routes covering more than 40 cities in nine provinces across China, including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Sichuan, as part of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Today we are talking with Andrey Stepaniuk, General Manager of SYNEX Logistics in Kazakhstan. SYNEX Logistics is a 3PL operator from Ukraine, part of the Eclectic Talents Group. In Kazakhstan, SYNEX Logistics provides services for the transportation of goods by all types of transport, customs clearance and accelerated border crossing.
The first four Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes have been successfully unloaded at the main berth of the T3 terminal in the Port of Gdansk. They are currently being tested and the equipment is being adjusted, and will be fully operational by March 2025. Three more STS cranes are expected to arrive from China in March next year. In addition, eight out of twenty rail-mounted cranes (RMG) have already been installed, and four of them have been connected to the power supply and put into operation.
Belgian rail operator Lineas and German chemical company Evonik have relaunched a weekly rail service connecting Evonik’s production sites in the Port of Antwerp with Lineas’ main terminal. The new service provides convenient connections to the lo-ro and ro-ro networks, offering logistical flexibility.
The largest Ro-Ro terminal for handling new cars has opened on the Yangtze River in China. The operator of the facility is Haitong Taicang, a joint venture between Shanghai Port International Group (SIPG), Jiangsu Port Logistics Group and Chinese auto giant SAIC Motor.
Lineas and Hupac Intermodal have announced a partnership on the Zeebrugge-Milan route from 1 January 2025. Lineas will focus on rail operations, providing traction services, while Hupac will manage intermodal transport, leveraging its deep industry knowledge and operational capabilities. The partnership aims to improve service quality and develop the corridor between Belgium and Italy, providing customers with high reliability and enhanced connectivity via both Germany and France.
From January 2025, Hapag-Lloyd will launch a new East Med Express (EME) service, which will provide direct connections between London Gateway (UK), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Bremerhaven (Germany) and Antwerp (Belgium) with Egypt. The German carrier said the new route will be integrated with the Gemini Shuttle network, providing convenient connections to other regions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Northern Europe.
