Barge Center Waalhaven, a container terminal in Rotterdam, received such significant fuel cost reductions by introducing a new Hyster ReachStacker, that the Waalhaven Group has placed another order for a new Hyster ReachStacker and an empty container handler in Born.

Tideworks Technology Inc, a leading provider of full-service terminal management and planning software solutions, has announced that Vale New Caledonia has selected Tideworks Technology to implement its terminal operating system solutions to manage operations at Prony Port in New Caledonia.

APS Stevedoring LLC starts Auto Terminal and Vessel Services in Portland APS Stevedoring LLC, an auto and general/breakbulk cargo stevedoring company headquartered in Long Beach, California, recently added to its terminal and stevedoring locations with Hyundai Motor's Portland, Oregon, Terminal 6 - Berth 601 auto terminal.

In April 2012, Konecranes received an order for two RTG (Rubber-Tyred Gantry) cranes and two BoxRunner straddle carriers from the Estonian company AS Muuga Container Terminal ("Muuga CT").

Dockers at Tilbury will stage a second strike in their dispute with Enterprise Distribution Centre (EDC) over the arbitrary introduction of new contracts.

The first phase of the latest £4.3m investment in the refurbishment of the Port of Liverpool's lock system is nearing completion.

Container volume in the Port of Charleston rose nearly 8 percent last month over 2011 levels, in results announced during the South Carolina Ports Authority's (SCPA) Board meeting earlier today.

The Port of Virginia handled 169,644 TEUs in April, an increase of 5.2 percent when compared with totals from April 2011.

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world's leading maritime services provider, is expanding its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of a new Global Marine Travel (ISS GMT) office in Singapore.

In the first three months of 2012 the Port of Hamburg achieved total throughput of 32.6 million tons (+ 3.8 percent). At 2.2 million TEU (20-ft standard containers), throughput on the container handling that predominates in Hamburg as a universal port was 5.2 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2011.