Giurgiulesti International Free Port, located on the Lower Danube, in Moldova is planning to complete its port infrastructure and building a mixed-gauge rail terminal and purchase a Ro-Ro ramp. 

Terminal Investment Limited, an international container terminal operator and part of the Mediterranean Shipping Company Group (MSC), is planning to expand its container handling operations at Klaipeda Port, through its locally based operating subsidiary LK AB Klaipedos Smelte.

Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) has announced that in October it handled 1.5% more containers compared to the same month in 2011.

In the first nine months of 2012 the Port of Hamburg achieved total throughput of 98.1 million tons (down 0.8 percent). General cargo throughput at 69.2 million tons was just ahead of last year's figure (up 0.2 percent).

PD Ports CEO, David Robinson and Business Development Director, Geoff Lippitt, have flown out to Asia to meet with customers and partners to highlight the changing face of UK logistics and the impact this will have on trade with Asia. 

Fendercare Marine, one of the world's leading suppliers of marine products and services, has signed an exclusive agency agreement with the Norwegian Marine equipment supplier, Maritim Trading AS. 

The first shipments of Southern yellow pine logs to China from either South Carolina or Virginia in over a year left the Port of Charleston's Wando Welch Terminal in mid-November.

International engineering consultancy provider Royal HaskoningDHV and Hakan Kiran Architecture signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the design of the new Kabatas Seagull Transportation Hub in Istanbul.

William T Bergeron, CEO of Bergeron Resources, was sworn in as the newest member of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans at the regular Board meeting November 15.

Eric Friend, Director of Training for MITAGS-PMI, has announced the Institute has completed a $1 million upgrade to full-mission bridge simulator # 2.