Kalmar, part of Cargotec, invites student teams to work on new data-driven concepts and business models through Accenture Digital Innovation Challenge (ADIC16). Kalmar's challenge is to create new business concepts and digital services from big data.

Following a recent court case, RAM Spreaders has achieved an emphatic victory over AMMESA, the owner of Rotainer over claims that AMMESA had made unjustified threats in claiming NSL infringed the Rotainer patent.

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has formally opened the first phase of its new greenfield terminal development at its Basra Gateway Terminal in the North Port, Umm Qasr, Iraq.

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has signed an agreement with Gulftainer Lebanon SAL to supply six Kalmar T2 terminal tractors and one Kalmar DCF80-45E7 empty container handler.

Konecranes has received clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") for its pending acquisition of Terex's MHPS business ("MHPS Acquisition").

Transport Malta has improved its marine aids to navigation with twenty new buoys, supplied by AtoN specialist Almarin, in collaboration with the local partner Boat Maintenance. Four buoys are located in Valleta, four in Marsaxlokk, one in Marsalforn, one in Gozo island and other in Comino island.

    Kalmar, part of Cargotec, boosts its business in the Americas region with appointing new members to its leadership team. (photo from left to right: Erika Barbosa, Göran Krave, Marco Nava and Steve Cianci

In June, Konecranes introduced the new BOXPORTER RMG to market. In September, Konecranes signed a deal with the Port of Koper in Slovenia for delivery of the first BOXPORTER RMG unit. It will be delivered in 2017.

A Modulift spreader combined with a 45m-long beam attached to a gantry and a crawler crane as 750t monopiles were tandem lifted from pontoons onto land in Cuxhaven on Germany's North Sea coast.

Container throughput at leading French port Marseille Fos reached 956,999 teu for the first nine months, a 4% rise on January-September last year driven by 6% growth at the Fos deepsea terminals.