The Port of Liverpool is welcoming 12 new engineering apprentices to the business – the largest intake of apprentices at the port for twenty years.

Customers at the Port of Felixstowe are benefitting from fast vessel turnarounds on the quayside as a result of a program of continuous improvements.

With the inauguration of a new logistics centre the Kühne + Nagel Group, which operates worldwide, has expanded its logistics area in the Port of Duisburg to almost 185,000 square meters.

The Port of Virginia handled 188,658 TEUs in August, an increase of 24 percent when compared with totals from August 2011.

The Port of Gothenburg has acquired a new feeder line for containers to and from ports in the Netherlands and Norway.

The Virginia Port Authority (VPA) and Virginia International Terminals (VIT) have created a web page dedicated to helping disseminate up-to-date local information to stakeholders and the public on the pending US East Coast labor stoppage.

A new improved weekly service, a joint venture with MSC, will deploy larger vessels of 6000 TEU's, and was due commence September 22nd.

In August 2012 Konecranes received two orders for a total of nine RTGs (Rubber Tyred Gantry) from Bolloré Group.

German shipping company Hamburg Sud recently added the Port of New Orleans to a new weekly service to Latin America.

APM Terminals Bahrain received calls from two consecutive Hanjin Shipping vessels on the weekly Pacific South & Gulf (PSG) US West Coast/Asia/Middle East pendulum service operated with NYK Lines as the Korean-based carrier rescheduled the Middle East leg of the port rotation to adhere to its published sailing schedule.