A ceremony for the largest ever working capital guarantee issued by Atradius Dutch State Business – on behalf of the Dutch Government – took place on Thursday 5 April 2012 at IHC. Merwede's shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel.

IMO invites industry to fully take part in the development of e-navigation. Gupreet Singhota, deputy director/ head of Operational Safety Security within the Maritime Safety Division of the International Maritime Organisation shares his invitation in an interview with eNav International.

Gulftainer, the largest privately owned port operator in the world based in Sharjah, recently welcomed an official delegation from the Port of Recife, in north east region of Brazil, to their offices in Sharjah, where they held talks about building on and strengthening the ties between the two companies.

International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI) recently announced the appointments of Nathan Clarke and Roger Yee as civil engineering managers for ICTSI's ports worldwide.

Turkey's Arkas Line has extended its Aegean-Spain (ASA) container service with a weekly call at Fos, offering French clients a direct link for Greece, Turkey and the Black Sea instead of requiring them to ship via Barcelona.

The largest vessel ever to have docked at Sharjah-based Gulftainer's Khorfakkan Container Terminal arrived on 2nd April on its first voyage from the Far East. 

In 2011, the Port of Rotterdam Authority's normalised result (net income) was EUR 186 million; that is EUR 18 million (+10%) higher than the result in 2010.

Following the Asia Pacific Maritime fair held in Singapore this month, JLMD has announced the signature of an exclusive contract with the Chinese Shanghai based company LONG JI to promote the innovative FOR Systems in China.