The Transport committee of the European Parliament has supported the removal of tax barriers for the uptake of shore-side electricity supply (OPS) in ports for ships at berth.

In December of 2017, Transnet SOC Ltd ordered seven Liebherr Reachstacker LRS 545, which were dispatched from the manufacturing site in Sunderland, UK back in February this year. All seven units were put into operation in March of 2018 at the Port of Durban, South Afrca.

On 20 September during his State of the Port address GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch detailed GPA's 10-year, USD2.5 billion plan to expand the capacity of the nation's fastest growing and single largest container terminal from 5.5 million TEUs to 8 million.

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Nusrat Ghani recently visited the Port of Tyne. During the visit the Minister enjoyed a boat trip on the River Tyne aboard the Port's pilot boat – Collingwood and was able to see first-hand the offshore renewable cluster of businesses based on the Tyne.

Hutchison Ports Harwich International has become a new base for the British Antarctic Survey's two ice-strengthened Royal Research Ships, the RRS James Clark Ross and the RRS Ernest Shackleton. The two ships are making their inaugural calls at the port in September before deploying to the Antarctic, where they will remain until summer 2019.

The British International Freight Association (BIFA), the trade association for UK freight forwarding and logistics companies, has described the container shipping industry's recent imposition of a 'sulphur surcharge' as unjustified and blatant profiteering.

Ahead of the Greenport Congress from 16-19 October, Hyster Company has announced the receipt of a grant from California Climate Investments (CCI) to support the development of a zero-emissions container handling truck powered by a Nuvera fuel cell.

The GPA has approved USD92 million for the Mason Mega Rail Terminal. The project will double the Port of Savannah's annual rail capacity to 1 million containers and deliver the largest on-terminal rail facility in North America by 2020.

Total monthly container volumes in August 2018 dropped 6.9 percent compared to the same month last year, for a total of 314,321 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). Contributing factors included weather conditions in Asia, which caused vessel delays and threw ships off schedule.