What began as a challenge earlier this quarter for employees at US-based company, Capacity Trucks, proved to end in celebration when the company recently celebrated record earnings for Q4 2014 and raised USD 1,600 in raffle proceeds for the East Texas Food Bank, located in Tyler.

In a month of strategic inter-regional activity Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sea Ports Corporation of Sudan, and led a delegation to Walvis Bay to give impetus to the MOU signed in 2013 with the Namibian Ports Authority (Namport).

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has named the industry's first ever LNG-ready ultra large container vessel. MV "Sajir" is the first vessel in UASC's current new building programme, comprising 17 of the world's most eco-efficient vessels.

The new APM Terminals Maasvlakte II container terminal, designed to be the world's safest, most technologically advanced and automated container handling facility, began landside commercial operations with the opening of the high tech truck gates, launching a new era of automation to improve trucker efficiency and reduce turn-times.

BMT subsidiaries in the Asia-Pacific region have been awarded a contract to provide design expertise for an advanced bulk-material handling system for the emerging port of Samalaju in East Malaysia.

UK based International Terminal Solutions Ltd (ITS) are pleased to announce an empty chassis detection upgrade for their trailer positioning system (TPS).

The Port of Long Beach expects a "Temporary Empty Container Depot" planned for a vacant pier on Terminal Island to be open and operating in December, which will help to alleviate congestion at the docks.

With total throughput of around 110 million tons, the Port of Hamburg set a new record in the first nine months of 2014.

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) is advising that port workers in Belgium today, 24th November 2014, started a 24 hour strike which will end at midnight 00:00hrs.

David Tozer, Global Manager of Container Ships at Lloyd's Register, Lars Meurling, Vice President of Marketing and Product Business Development at Bromma Conquip, and Markus Theuerholz, Sales Manager at German Lashing Robert Böck will be providing separate addresses at ICHCA's Container Lashing & Securing Seminar, taking place at ECT's Delta Terminal, Rotterdam on 10 December.