The Port of Liverpool and ACL – Atlantic Container Line – are helping to facilitate a very special family reunion on behalf of the National Railway Museum. The Dominion of Canada and the Dwight D Eisenhower steam locomotives – two of six remaining A4 locomotives and 'sisters' of the legendary A4 'Mallard' which broke the world land speed record for steam almost 75 years ago – are making their way to the UK in what is an extraordinary feat of logistics.

Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation and the global technology standard for managing the movement of cargo through terminals, has announced that Khalifa Port, located in Abu Dhabi, UAE, has successfully launched commercial operations with the company's advanced terminal operating system (TOS), SPARCS N4.

Paul Anderson has been elected chairman of the Florida Ports Financing Commission (FPFC) unanimously by the directors of Florida's 14 other seaports.

Van Oord's first shallow water pipe lay vessel Stingray was named at the COSCO shipyard in Nantong, China. The naming ceremony was performed by Mrs A Athmer-Albersen, wife of Managing Director Offshore, Mr J B E M  Athmer.

Terminal Catalunya (TERCAT), a subsidiary of Hutchison Port Holdings ("HPH"), yesterday celebrated the grand opening of its new semi-automated deep-water container terminal – Barcelona Europe South Terminal ("BEST"). 

The Virginia Port Authority Board of Commissioners named Rodney W Oliver as the interim executive director of the agency, taking over for Jerry Bridges who is scheduled to step down from the agency's top position on Oct. 31.

Southampton's frontline role in global trade was today being underlined with the official launch of a £150m investment project at the port by Associated British Ports (ABP) who is the port owner and joint venture partner in DP World Southampton - the container terminal operator.

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, recently won contracts from two major container terminal operators, APM Terminals and Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) to provide automation systems for their new ship-to-shore cranes.

Revenues are increasing at the Port of Houston Authority as management continues to drive down costs, Executive Director Len Waterworth reported at a recent  meeting of the Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority.