Harwich International Port is celebrating following the announcement that Ipswich-based Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines will commence calls from the Essex port in 2013, with 804-guest Black Watch making four turnaround visits in May and June 2013.

Container volumes rose 12% in the year to the end of October on the Medlink Ports inland waterways network linking Marseilles Fos with nine ports in the Rhone-Saone hinterland. 

The UK's Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, has visited the Port of Felixstowe, the country's largest container port, to see it take delivery of its latest consignment of new cranes. Whilst at the port, the Secretary of State met with senior management of the port, before a tour of the facilities.

Martin Harris OBE, UK Ambassador to Romania, officially opened Tibbett Logistics' second intermodal (road-rail) terminal in Bucharest this week, following a 6.4 million euro investment in the development. 

Brookfield Infrastructure Group is pleased to announce that Doug Tilden, former chief executive officer of Marine Terminals Corp., has joined the company as senior consultant for its ports business.

Tenova, a worldwide supplier of advanced technologies and equipment for the iron & steel and mining industries, announces today the acquisition of Bateman Engineering N.V., a leading equipment supplier and engineering house for the mining industry.

North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Economy Minister Harry K. Voigtsberger intends to press the federal German government to take cross-border infrastructure projects into account in implementing the national port concept.

Year by year, the number of exceptionally large ships (known as AGFs in German) calling in the Port of Hamburg is growing and with it, the size of such ships. With the call by the "CSCL Mars", visiting Hamburg this week for the first time on her maiden voyage, the Hanseatic City welcomed one of the very largest containerships currently serving the Port of Hamburg.

London, 8 December 2011 – ICAP Shipping, the shipping arm of ICAP plc, the world's leading interdealer broker, and Saxo Bank, the trading and investment specialist, announced on Thursday that they were involved in the execution of the world's first electronic, voice-assisted trade of a container freight swap agreement settled in US dollars. 

The Port of San Diego Board of Port Commissioners will consider a staff recommendation to solicit proposals for developing a renewable energy facility in National City.