DP World London Gateway has won European Transport Deal of the Year at Project Finance International's annual awards ceremony in London. The DP World finance and London Gateway teams, along with its advisors, worked with several international banks to achieve project finance closure in Q4 2011.

GAC's in-house ship-to-ship transfer expert GAC Transfer Services (GTS) has responded to growing demand for LPG imports and exports of clean products in the Indian Subcontinent with the establishment of a new fully-equipped base in Sri Lanka.

The Port of Gothenburg has gained a new container sea route to and from the UK. The route is being introduced by the French-owned MacAndrews shipping line and will call into APM Terminals Gothenburg, the container terminal in the Port of Gothenburg, every Friday.

The famous British tea brand Typhoo has reduced its UK road miles and carbon emissions through a unique new supply chain partnership with the Port of Liverpool. 

For the second consecutive year, the Belgian port of Ghent registered a new record. Furthermore it was a first in the port's history that the limit of 50 million tonnes of cargo traffic was exceeded.

2011 proved to be a banner year for container volumes at the Port of New Orleans. Year-end figures show the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal moved 476,413 TEU (twenty-foot-equivalent units), up 11.6 percent compared to 2010 - the Port's previous record-setting year – and up 46 percent compared to volumes just two years ago.