ABB has signed a three-year international maintenance contract with Van Oord, a leading worldwide contractor for dredging, marine engineering and offshore projects (oil, gas and wind).

The Port of Felixstowe's rail advantage is set to grow further with the official opening of the Ipswich Chord on 31 March 2014.

UK's Associated British Ports and manufacturing giant Siemens are to invest a total of £310m in UK wind turbine factories. Siemens will put up £160m - doubling its previous plans to invest £80m in wind turbine production in the UK.

Trelleborg launches a brand new series of Quick Release Hooks (QRHs), designed specifically for smaller and simpler mooring applications, where traditional large and more complex QRHs are not appropriate.

essDOCS has successfully completed the first operational use of essDOCS electronic bill of lading solution covering a container movement. 

The Container Throughput Index of the RWI and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) has decreased slightly from a corrected 120.3 to 119.3. However, this is still the second highest volume ever recorded.

The Georgia Ports Authority has moved more than 2 million twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) so far this fiscal year (July-February), for an increase of 6.2 percent or an additional 119,318 TEUs.

Sir Ben Ainslie, Britain's greatest ever Olympic sailor, is to officially open Southampton's £100m new container handling facility. The four-times Olympic gold medallist and America's Cup winner, dubbed the greatest sailor since Lord Nelson, will signal the start of operations with the loading of a golden container onto one of the world's biggest ships, the CMA CGM Marco Polo.

Specialist freight transport insurance provider, TT Club is reinforcing its presence in Dubai. 

Three important agreements including a concession agreement were recently signed between Sultanate of Oman's Port of Duqm Company and Port of Antwerp, Belgium.