Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), the flagship operation of International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI), recently streamlined manpower deployment with a new workforce management system aimed at optimizing "employee rostering," enhancing the workforce environment, and improving management's decision-making abilities.

Records set in containers moved, total tonnage, and truck and intermodal moves made August an impressive month for the Georgia Ports Authority, Executive Director Curtis Foltz recently reported to the GPA board.

Transas Marine has successfully installed a training complex for Estonian Maritime Academy in Tallinn.

Associated British Ports' (ABP) Port of Newport has taken delivery of a new Liebherr LHM 180 Mobile Harbour Crane to assist with faster and more efficient handling of cargo arriving and departing the docks. The investment will play a particularly important role in supporting the port's bulk and break-bulk customers by handling steel, agri-bulks, forest products, and minerals.

Finances are very strong for August Executive Director Len Waterworth shared in his report to the Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority at its monthly meeting yesterday.

Roy Mease has been appointed to the Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority by the City of Pasadena. Port Commissioners serve two-year terms without pay. Mease was named to the seat previously held by Steve Phelps. Phelps had served as Port Commissioner since 1997.

Terminal Container Ravenna in Italy celebrates the commissioning of its new "BIG" quay crane which has already moved its first container. After the complex technological refurbishment, Ravenna can now deploy a crane able to operate on new-generation containerships.

On Friday, 20 September, Associated British Ports (ABP) officially opened a brand new terminal for handling vehicle imports and exports to and from the UK. 

Liebherr Container Cranes has secured an order for the delivery of seven (7) straddle carriers to ECT Delta Terminal in Rotterdam.

On 18 September 2013, International Container Terminal Services, Inc. ("ICTSI") and PSA International Pte. Ltd. ("PSA"), through their respective wholly-owned subsidiaries, signed an agreement which will enable them to jointly develop, construct and operate the container port terminal and ancillary facilities located in the Peninsula of Aguadulce, Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia (the "Aguadulce Port Project").