Manila Harbor Center Port Services, Inc. (MHCPSI) recently took delivery of eight light rail vehicles (LRV) from Citadel Shipping’s MV Morning Margareta for the Philippines’ light rail transit (LRT) project. 

Following a successful 13 years as President and CEO of South Carolina Ports, Jim Newsome has announced his plans to retire from the helm on June 30, at which time he will serve as an executive advisor to the port.

Goods throughput in the port of Rotterdam rose to 118.5 million tonnes in the third quarter, 14.6% more than in the same period last year.

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) and Colombo West International Container Terminal Limited have signed a Build, Own and Transfer Agreement to agree a lease period of 35 years.

Ports of Stockholm has been granted building permits to equip Stockholm’s central quays with onshore power connections for cruise ships. This environmental initiative is a collaboration with other Baltic Sea ports that will result in significantly lower emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollutants from cruise ships in Stockholm and the Baltic Sea.

The Connecting Europe Express, which is one of the European Year of Rail’s most prominent initiatives, recently passed through Rotterdam and arrived in Antwerp.

KVH has announced that Net Feasa, an IoT service provider with expertise in supply chain logistics, has joined the KVH Watch® Solution Partner programme and will offer the KVH Watch service to enhance global container tracking and monitoring.

Building upon the highly successful Khalifa Port Coral Relocation project announced at the start of 2021, AD Ports Group, today has made public its partnership with NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) for the creation of a research study on coral relocation.

Support for eradicating piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is gaining strength both in Asia and world-wide. Organisations including Japan’s NYK Line and the Asian Shipowners’ Association are among the latest to join in the call for action.

CMA CGM has launched a new weekly GETEX (Greece Egypt Turkey Express) service connecting North Greece with Egypt and South Turkey while utilising the Port of Thessaloniki as its first call.

DP World has opened a new £3 million 11.5 acre empty container storage park at the Port of Southampton. 

Drones are playing an increasingly important role in coordinating safety within the complex port environment. That is the reason why Port of Antwerp carried out unique trials involving a ‘fixed-wing’ drone recently.

Uruguayan company Corporación Navios replaced a Liebherr long duty cycle crane with a permanently installed harbour crane type FCC 300.

Port Everglades, a department of Broward County government, the Empresa Nacional Portuaria (National Port Authority of Honduras), and Operadora Portuaria Centroamericana (OPC), terminal operator at Puerto Cortes, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as part of a joint Sister Seaports agreement.

Lomé Container Terminal (LCT) S.A. in Togo, West Africa, has ordered 5 more Konecranes Rubber-Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes. The order was booked in June 2021 and the cranes will be delivered in the second half of 2022.  

Liebherr Container Cranes have been awarded the contract for the supply of three ship to shore (STS) container cranes for Maher Terminals LLC at the Port of New York & New Jersey.

Total Terminals International container terminal on Pier T in the Port of Long Beach is making it easier for trucks to access the facility 

during the overnight hours in a new pilot programme to widen access and speed deliveries amid the ongoing cargo surge.

AD Ports Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the General Company for Ports of Iraq (GCPI) to promote increased cooperation between the two organisations within the fields of transportation and maritime.

During the recent monthly meeting of the Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) Board of Directors, the Board unanimously awarded a USD48.8 million construction services contract to Superior Construction Company LLC for terminal improvements to enable the SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal at Blount Island to accommodate more containers.