Metropolitan Stevedore Co, established in 1923 in Southern California and with business roots dating back to the 1850s Gold Rush era through its original San Francisco parent corporation, California Stevedore and Ballast Co., is celebrating its 90th anniversary.

Cargo volumes at The Port of Virginia continued their positive trend in February as the number of TEU handled that month grew 7.9 percent when compared with the same month last year. In February the port handled 169,390 TEU, an increase of 12,340 units when compared with last February.

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has approved a letter of intent with Vopak Terminals North America Inc to study development of a 28-acre site on Pier T as a deep-water terminal for crude oil and petroleum products including gasoline.

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world's leading maritime services provider, has announced the appointment of Clive Lane as Vice President of Operations for Europe & North Africa. 

Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), the Red Sea gateway to Jordan and beyond, commemorated the successful completion of the first part of its berth expansion, adding 200 meters of new quay and two new STS cranes and four Rubber Tyre Gantry cranes (RTGs).

DCT is proud to announce that as from August 2013 it will  handle the state of the art, 18.000 TEU capacity "Triple-E" vessels of Maersk Line.

Operations at the Port Hedland Port Authority (PHPA) have resumed to normal following Tropical Cyclone Rusty, with another million tonnes dispatched on a single tide last Friday (8 March 2013).

It has been confirmed that the world's largest container ships – Triple E – will call at the Port of Gothenburg, Sweden.