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With the new system in place, information about the condition, location, destination, and other modalities of each vehicle will be available at all times and easily documented by multiple teams
Associated British Ports (ABP) has selected INFORM to provide a scalable terminal operating system solution. With the aim of transforming ABP into the one-stop store for the vehicle’s journey from manufacturer to destination, the collaboration kicks off at the Port of Southampton.
Among ABP’s 21 ports, Southampton stands out as the UK’s number one vehicle handling port, handling around 900,000 vehicles per year. Serving the company’s mission to ‘Keep Britain Trading’, the project’s goal is to provide a streamlined, fully integrated, terminal operating vehicle management system which covers all port side operations in a single application, including the planning and optimisation of compound, resource, work, and damage management. In addition to ensuring holistic transparency wit
Southampton port claims UK shore power first
A port has begun “pioneering” work to allow cruise ships to plug into the National Grid.
Southampton is the first UK commercial port to install shore power facilities, owner Associated British Ports (ABP) said.
It will be available at two of the city’s five cruise terminals from spring 2022, the firm added.
The port said shore power would improve air quality by reducing the amount of time ships run their engines in port.
ABP previously pledged to install the technology in 2020 although it said it was working on issues over funding and a sufficient supply of power.
This is said to be the next step in an ongoing partnership with Carnival UK to enable sustainable cruising from the Port of Southampton and follows a £12m investment at the port’s Ocean Terminal in readiness for LNG-powered P&O Cruises’ Iona. By introducing the option for cruise ships, with onboard capability, to plug in while alongside, the port could start seeing CO2 emission savings of up to 863kg in CO2 and 10.5kg of Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) per vessel call each year.
ABP Southampton Director, Alastair Welch Alastair Welch, Regional Director at the port, said: “We are incredibly proud to be making another significant step as we further develop our sustainable credentials for cruise with Carnival UK here in Southampton. This is good news for the port, for air quality and for the future of cruise.”
Southampton Announces Name of Newest Cruise Terminal May 04, 2021
Associated British Ports (ABP) has announced that Southampton’s fifth open-access cruise terminal will be named Horizon Cruise Terminal.
According to a press release, there were nearly 4,000 name suggestions from across the world that took part in a naming competition.
Horizon Cruise Terminal was put forward by Anna Chojnacka and was chosen at random from multiple entries of the same name. Chojnacka won a seven-night cruise holiday offered by the terminal’s cruise partner, MSC Cruises. The winner of the second token collect competition, Lin Malt from Hampshire, won a seven-night cruise holiday offered by the terminal’s other cruise partner, Norwegian Cruise Line.