The Georgia Ports Authority Board approved a USD 6.5 million, 6,000-foot extension of the Mason Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) today. The initiative is designed to expand capacity, improve efficiencies and reduce costs for customers. Construction on the project will begin in January and, when complete, the Garden City terminal will feature a combined 46,921 linear feet of track between two on-site rail yards serving Class I rail providers CSX and Norfolk Southern.

Cargotec has signed a co-operation agreement with Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd (ST Kinetics) to develop automated port equipment. The parties have agreed to begin co-operation by developing applications and related systems for container terminal customers. This agreement is a continuation of Cargotec and ST Kinetics' earlier successful co-operation.

The Port of Dover has outperformed all other UK Ports in the first mandatory Government scheme aimed at improving energy efficiency and cutting emissions in large public and private sector companies in the UK.  Furthermore, the Port achieved a place in the top 3% of all of the 2000+ organisations which participated.

Break-bulk volume at South Carolina's seaports in Charleston and Georgetown continued its uptick, with a 121% increase last month compared to the same month last year. The Port of Charleston's non-container segment rose 58%, with 66,540 tonnes handled in October versus 42,163 tonnes during the same month in 2010.

Halterm Container Terminal Limited has selected Tideworks Technology Inc, a leading provider of full-service terminal management and planning software solutions, for its comprehensive suite of terminal operating system (TOS) solutions for implementation at its facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Tideworks' TOS, which will replace Halterm's current system, is scheduled to go live in 2012.

The Swiss Ministry of Transport and the Swiss Embassy in the Netherlands have addressed the development of the Rotterdam-Genoa transport corridor which will see an investment of EUR 25 billion in the coming years, funded mostly by Switzerland. The Main European cargo transport corridor has an annual traffic volume of approximately 700 million tonnes of goods transported by rail, with half of that being the total of north-south volume.

In the first 10 months of this year, container throughput on the Yangtze River increased by 23.2% to 9.14 million TEU compared to the same period last year.

Caribbean ocean shipping company SeaFreight Agencies, a longtime customer of Broward County's Port Everglades, celebrated the grand opening of its 25-acre marine cargo terminal at the South Florida seaport on November 17, 2011.

Fifteen vessels have already been signed up for the Port of Gothenburg campaign for a cleaner marine and air environment. The vessels are operated by the shipping lines TransAtlantic, Stena Oil, Tärntank AB and Topoil AB.

The Georgia Ports Authority, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed recently hosted U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood for a briefing on the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project and a tour of the Port of Savannah.