Peel Ports has announced it has commenced the procurement phase for the construction of its new deep-water container terminal at the Port of Liverpool.

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world's leading maritime and cargo services provider, has now established a new office in Malta.  The opening of the ISS Malta office, with newly recruited management, follows the ending of a sub agency agreement with the local firm of Thomas Smith.

The Port of Virginia set a mark on Thursday (March 1) that no other port on the US East Coast can equal: it loaded a containership so heavy that it needed 48.5 feet of water to sail and then watched as it safely navigated its way to the Atlantic Ocean.

The Port of Felixstowe is celebrating the start of a new Transatlantic service which called at Britain's largest container port on Saturday 3rd March 2012. 

Logistic service provider Kloosterboer has recently reached an agreement with a number of container shipping companies to start a reefer container depot in Vlissingen. One of these companies is Maersk.

APM Terminals Inland Services and MIV Logistics signed a MoU today for CFS operations in Kochi.

The world leader in crane spreaders, Stockholm-based Bromma, has announced 2011 year over year growth in all regions, with Latin America showing particular strength, with more than 130 crane spreaders sold.  Driving order growth is a significant acceleration in contracts from automated terminals during 2011.

Following a slight downturn in 2010, volumes in container handling between the Port of Hamburg and Poland recovered notably in 2011. Feedership container traffic with Poland, for instance, grew by 33.3 percent to 238,000 TEU (20-feet standard containers) and with Eastern Europe as a whole by 38.7 percent to 1,07 million TEU.

BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has been recognised in the prestigious Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to work for list for 2012.