At Felixstowe, the UK's largest container port, the search for greater energy efficiency has led to investment in Control Techniques' RIS.GA. system for diesel saving on 12 rubber tyre gantry cranes (RTGs). 

Until now the Liverpool to Manchester service has carried only an increasing level of containers, but transporting of a giant chemicals tank to the Ineos facility at Runcorn saw the start of non-containerised traffic. The 30 metre high 20 tonne tank arrived at the Port of Liverpool from Holland on the ACL vessel Atlantic Concert, and made the onward journey on the Ship Canal to Runcorn by barge.

Cargotec has received an order to deliver 13 Kalmar reachstackers and 4 Kalmar empty container handlers to Europe Container Terminals (ECT), supported by a five-year maintenance agreement. The order has been booked for the first quarter of 2012.

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd recently secured an order for the supply of one (1) Ship-to-Shore Container Crane to Exolgan Container Terminal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

After 15 years of study, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced today that it had released the final documents for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) for review by state and federal agencies and the general public.

The Port of Virginia handled 166,719 TEUs in March, an increase of 4.4 percent when compared with totals from March 2011.

IHC Merwede, the global market leader for efficient dredging and mining vessels and equipment, and reliable supplier of custom-built ships and supplies for offshore construction, officially opened its new Singapore office at the PSA Building.

In the first quarter of 2012, throughput in the port of Rotterdam was 3% up on the same period of last year, at 110 million tonnes.

The TT Club, a leading provider of insurance and related risk management services for the international transport and logistics industry, today announces an 8.5% growth in premium income, resulting from new business, increase in volumes and a continued high level of member retention, in its financial results for 2011.