St George Warehouse, which operates more than 1.9 million square feet of distribution centre space nationwide, has entered the Savannah market with a new location minutes from the Port of Savannah's Garden City Terminal.

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has been awarded a ship-to-shore (STS) crane refurbishment project by the Belawan International Container Terminal (BICT) in Medan, Indonesia. The contract was signed in December 2013, and the project is expected to be completed in August 2014.

Vale Mozambique is planning to export its first shipment of coal via the port of Nacala-a-Velha in 2015. According to Managing Director, Ricardo Saad, the test phase for exports is expected to begin in the final quarter of this year.

German crane manufacturer, Kirow Ardelt GmbH, a member of Kranunion, formerly known as TAKRAF or Kranbau Eberswalde, with more than 400 references in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, has supplied its second crane to Chile.

The tender for the dredging project at  Ijmuiden Harbour in the Netherlands has been announced by Rijkswaterstaat Programma's Projecten en Onderhoud.

A Turkish construction services company Mussa Insaat Dis Ticaret Ltd of Istanbul has ordered two road-mobile Siwertell 10 000 S cement unloaders from Cargotec in less than three months.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved reduced electric rates at the Port of Long Beach for the next 24 years and a program for Southern California Edison to install major electric infrastructure at no cost to the Port or its tenants, so that the Port and its tenants can proceed with critical electrification and environmental improvement projects.

Juan Antonio Delgado, the Port Authority of Valencia's Deputy Managing Director and Director of Strategic Planning and Business Transformation, has been appointed as a member of the International Association of Ports & Harbours (IAPH), and as Chairman of its Port Operations and Logistics Committee.

Royal Boskalis Westminster NV (Boskalis) achieved revenue of EUR 3.5 billion in 2013 (2012: EUR 3.1 billion). Net profit rose sharply to EUR 366 million (2012: EUR 249 million), partly due to a number of extraordinary items amounting to EUR 97 million post tax.