The technology company The Linde Group and the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) have agreed to advance the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) - an environmentally-friendly fuel - in the port of Hamburg.

Maersk's intra-Mediterraneran subsidiary Seago Line and Turkon have launched a weekly joint service between Fos and Turkey, adding to their existing services from Marseilles to Turkish ports.

Total goods handling in the Port of Duisburg grew by 10 per cent to 125.6 million tones in 2011 (previous year: 114 million tonnes). In doing so, duisport achieved a new best of 64 million tonnes. T

US State of Georgia's Governor, Nathan Deal, said that his state is actively pursuing US federal funding for the deepening of the Savannah River channel -- to make it ready to handle the larger ships that will use the expanded Panama Canal.

In a world where slow growth is the norm for many countries, the International Monetary Fund has forecast an economic growth rate of 5.5% for sub-Saharan Africa in 2012 as a region.

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd recently received an order to deliver six Rubber Tyre Gantry Cranes to OJSC Petrolesport in St Petersburg, Russia. The RTGs are of 16 wheel configuration, stack one over five containers high and span six containers plus a truck lane.

The Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) received today an additional $2.5 million in construction funding. In the US Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) work plan released today for the remainder of fiscal year 2012, the USACE allocated a total of $3,088,000 to the work.

The Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), whose member national shipowners' associations represent all sectors and trades and more than 80% of the world merchant fleet, met in London on 6 February.

A Gottwald HMK 170 E will be taking up commercial operation in the spring of 2012 at the port of Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda, where it will be handling containers and general cargo. The crane will play a key role in future in providing goods to the approximately 70,000 inhabitants of this British overseas territory.

Peel Ports has appointed Douglas Coleman; one of the UK's most experienced project directors, as its Programme Director for the construction of the planned in-river container terminal at the Port of Liverpool.