The modernisation of the Philippines' largest domestic port is moving apace with great progress.

Year-to-date tonnage at Houston Port Authority facilities (excluding bulk cargo associated with leased locations) of 29 million tons show 7 percent growth, fueled primarily by steel, which increased by 26 percent over 2011.

Container traffic at the Port of Bilbao reached a record high of 610,131 TEU in 2012. 

A tender for four new shiploaders has been issued to improve the flow of cargo at a Brazilian port.

HTS, a leader in the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and computer vision systems market, announced that the Port Authority of Panama has awarded Advanced Consulting– a Panamanian IT consulting company who will prime the project, and HTS, the OCR provider - a project to implement OCR on 53 cranes spread over 4 terminals in Panama.

DCT Gdansk, the most rapidly growing gateway to Central-Eastern Europe and Russia, is proud to announce that January 2013 was record breaking.

The first-in-the-Southeast port truck replacement program, run by the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA), has received $145,000 in additional federal grant funding to help continue reducing related air emissions across the Charleston area.  

The Port of Virginia has started 2013 on a positive note having handled 4,466 more TEUs in January when compared with totals from the same month last year.

State-of-the-art fully automated stacking cranes (ASCs) currently being installed at the UK's new national hub port will increase reliability and ensure smoother, more efficient operations 24 hours a day, even in weather conditions that would force non-automated systems to close.

In 2012 the Port of Hamburg's seaborne cargo throughput reached 130.9 million tons (- 1.0 percent). General cargo throughput at 91.5 million tons was just below the previous year's (- 1.2 percent).