Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) recently awarded Damen Shipyards Cape Town (DSCT) preferred bidder status to build a pilot boat and a tug boat for the Port of Saldanha in the Western Cape.

Exports in the Port of Barcelona have kept their momentum during the first semester of the year, as revealed in a report from the Statistics department of the Port Authority.

Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), the world's gateway to Jordan and the Levant region received the 2011 Social Security Excellence Award for Occupational Health and Safety, which is the only safety award of its kind to be offered to companies in Jordan by the Social Security Corporation. 

The Port of Seattle's Terminal 18, run by SSA Terminals, will have three more Super Post Panamax cranes, allowing it to handle the largest container vessels in the world. 

Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) Executive Director Curtis J. Foltz announced that the GPA achieved record volumes in FY2012 for total tonnage, containers, and autos.

On Wednesday 4 July, Paul Rowlands, Marketing Executive for Fendercare Marine was given the honour of being an official Olympic Torchbearer and carrying the flame through Fakenham, Norfolk.

HR Wallingford is now trading as HR Wallingford LLC in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The Port of Virginia handled 168,430 TEUs in June, an increase of 11.2 percent when compared with totals from June 2011. Year-to-date, the port has handled 994,727 TEUs vs. 943,907 TEUs handled during the same period last year, an increase of 5.4 percent.