The first project cargo shipment for Westinghouse Electric Company in a series of deliveries spanning several years has arrived at the Port of Charleston's Columbus Street Terminal. This high, wide and heavy cargo is being shipped through the port to support South Carolina Electric & Gas Company's (SCE&G) nuclear plant expansion near Columbia, SC.

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd recently announced that it had secured orders to deliver two super post panamax cranes to the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand. The delivery of these ship to shore cranes will bring to seven the number of Liebherr STS cranes operating in the Port of Tauranga.

The Port of Brisbane has for the first time surpassed the one million teu mark handled over a 12 month period.

Citing the expected benefits a free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union would bring to the Port of Montreal - and indeed to all Canadians - Sylvie Vachon, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Montreal Port Authority, gave her support to negotiations toward such an historic agreement.

Shipping lines calling at Southampton's container terminal are benefitting from the terminal's continued drive on productivity as vessels turnaround times reduce.The South Coast terminal set its best ever vessel turnaround performance when it handled the maiden call of the largest ship in the Hyundai fleet.

Hyster Europe will demonstrate ways of achieving fuel savings of up to 20% at TOC Europe 2012 (Terminal Operations Conference and Exhibition), from 12-14 June 2012, at the Antwerp Expo in Belgium on stand C6.

Adriatic Gate Container Terminal j.s.c. in Rijeka, Croatia recently signed an agreement with Shangai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. for the delivery of new equipment for the terminal.These equipment include two post Panamax quay cranes, eight rubber tyred gantries and rail mounted gantries.

Global Container Terminals Inc, a leading North American marine terminal operator with facilities on both coasts, today unveiled final plans for a multi-million dollar expansion project to develop a 70-acre technologically advanced container terminal on the Bayonne, NJ, waterfront. When complete, Global Terminal at Port Jersey will be the most advanced marine terminal in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The Panama Maritime Authority has approved and granted permits for a fourth container terminal in Colon, at the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal.

The New World Alliance consortium of ocean carriers and Evergreen are launching a new Far East weekly container service in June, marking the third new container service announced this year for Charleston and the first service for the port with a direct call in Vietnam.