Striking workers on the Panama Canal expansion have agreed to a 13% pay increase and are expected to return to work today. Grupo Unidos por el Canal, the consortium that oversees the locks project, will also cover delayed overtime and weekend pay.

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. recently secured an order for the supply of two (2) Ship-to-Shore Container Cranes to the JSC Commercial Port of Vladivostok. This follows the recent supply and installation of two (2) Rail Mounted Stacking Cranes at the same port.

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world's leading maritime services provider, and Vessel Protection Solutions (VPS) today announced the launch of a new anti-piracy partnership that will provide the ultimate protection for vessels and their crews while operating in known piracy regions. 

In September 2010, Schmidt-Seeger GmbH was acquired by the Bühler Technology Group. Now that the integration has been completed, the company will in the future appear solely under the name Bühler GmbH.

Newly released shipping figures for Milford Haven Port show steady growth and an increase in efficiency throughout last year. With just over 71 million gross tons coming into the port during 2011, this is up almost nine per cent on the previous year, assisted by the cold weather experienced in the first quarter of 2011 which boosted gas volumes.

Port of New Orleans officials are hailing Louisiana's Congressional delegation for their efforts to direct vital maintenance dollars to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to restore the Lower Mississippi River deep-draft channel to its authorised dimensions.

Thanks to the robustness of the German economy, hinterland traffic was less affected by the crisis than feeder traffic.  In a long-term perspective, the Central and Eastern European economies still show the highest growth potential and are subject to harsh competition between the North Range ports, as latest results from ISL's North European Container Traffic Model show.

Britain's third biggest port, Milford Haven Port, has appointed a new Director to head up an exciting period of change in its Short Sea operations.

The Seattle Harbor once again handled over 2 million TEU (20-foot equivalent units) with 2.03 million containers moving through the harbor in 2011.  The record was broken in 2010 with 2.1 million TEU'. 2011 is the third year the harbor has exceeded 2 million TEU.