PSA Marine, together with its Taiwanese partner, Ta Tong Marine Group have formed a new joint venture company called ‘Ventus Marine Co., Ltd,’ to service a long-term contract awarded by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S for the Formosa 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. For its operations, Ventus Marine is leveraging Njord [...]
(L-R) Front row: Wärtsilä Singapore MD Mervin Ong and PSA Marine MD Peter Chew. Back row: Singapore’s Ambassador to Finland H.E. Jaya Mohideen; Finland’s Ambassador to Singapore H.E. Antti Vanska; Finland’s Minister of Economic Affairs Katri Kulmuni; Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore Chief Executive Quah Ley Hoon; President and CEO Wärtsilä Jaakko Eskola [...]
PSA’s Bharat Kolkata Container Terminals (PSA Kolkata) set a new monthly throughput record of 61,755 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) in October 2019. In the same month, PSA Kolkata reached the milestone of handling a cumulative total of 3 million TEUs since the start of its operations in November 2014! For more information, [...]
Hans Raj is currently the Head of Engineering for PSA Mumbai and started his PSA career in Singapore about 30 years ago. Over the years he has worked in various PSA terminals across Singapore, Vietnam, Yemen, India, Saudi Arabia and China. His duties have ranged from assisting in green field start-ups, commissioning equipment, reviewing terminal [...]
PSA Marine, in collaboration with the technology group Wärtsilä, continue to achieve new milestones in their intelligent vessel capabilities. This is to meet the challenges of the evolving Singapore port, which is expected to double its capacity by 2040. The goal is to empower tug masters with greater situational awareness and enhanced [...]
Since the incorporation of Saudi Global Ports (SGP) in 2015, SGP has been co-sponsoring annual workshops for both staff as well as representatives from the Saudi Port Authority (MAWANI). The latest seven-day workshop was conducted by PSA University in Singapore in October 2019. The recent session was tailored towards middle-level management personnel [...]
PSA’s Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals (PSA Mumbai) recently handled its first millionth TEU since the start of operations in February 2018. The significant milestone was reached on 18 October 2019 during a terminal call by CMA CGM’s M.V Bermuda. In addition, a second milestone was achieved when 1,868 moves were handled on [...]
PSA Singapore won the "Excellence in Port Management and Infrastructure – Portfolio Business" category at the Lloyd’s List Asia Pacific Awards held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore on 17 October 2019. The Lloyd’s List Asia Pacific Awards were started in 1998 to celebrate excellence and recognise achievements in the maritime industry. [...]
Richard Lee Choon Kiong is a Senior Manager in Equipment Engineering at PSA Singapore Terminal 2. He is also a part of the Centre of Excellence program for Battery, which also closely tracks emerging technologies and energy sources with potential applications within the port. ‘Why not?’ This simple question is what Richard [...]
On 27 September 2019, Chennai International Terminals Private Limited (PSA Chennai) in India, hosted celebrations for staff, stakeholders and the trade to mark PSA Chennai’s 10th anniversary in the region. In the morning, the festivities kicked off in the terminal with an event to honour long-term employees. This saw a series of [...]