Fifty years on from when the company was first founded, igus, the Cologne-based tribopolymer experts, is using the 30th anniversary of its iglidur materials to put the resilience and potential of special plastics to the test.

DP World London Gateway is aiding supply chain reliability as it takes ad hoc vessel calls while other UK ports face closures and congestion during bad weather. Ten vessels have made diversionary calls to London Gateway since Christmas as weather conditions impact other ports' landside, waterside and rail terminal operations while London Gateway has remained open throughout.

WienCont, the trimodal container terminal in Vienna, is the first Austrian terminal in the InlandLinks network. This was announced March 5th by Allard Castelein, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority. The InlandLinks network now comprises almost 70 terminals in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Italy, Austria and Hungary.

The port of Rotterdam is missing out on almost 1 million TEU of containers a year because ports in Germany and Flanders receive financial support from their governments. That was revealed by the study 'Level playing field' that was commissioned by the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. "

The President included more than $15 million in critical funding for SC Ports Authority projects, including the Post-45 harbor deepening project, in his fiscal year 2015 budget. "The Administration has included funding for the SCPA's deepening project in its budget for three consecutive years," said Bill Stern, SCPA Board Chairman. "We're deeply appreciative that the Administration recognizes our harbor deepening as a critical infrastructure project.

UK Peel Ports has completed an £8m upgrade (on time and in budget ) of the Port of Liverpool animal feed warehouse, which according to Peel Ports is now the largest of its type in the UK, having increased its capacity by 60% to 400,000 sq ft.

Konecranes is set to deliver 23 heavy forklift trucks next month to Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise (ESLSE) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Konecranes received the order back in Autumn 2013.

Against the background of continued economic weakness in the Eurozone, container handling in the ports of the Hamburg Le Havre Range once more failed to break the seemingly invincible 40 million TEU threshold in 2013, as the latest edition of the "Global Port Tracker -North Europe Trade Outlook", published by Hackett Associates and Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL), points out.

Bechtel, a global leader in planning, designing, and building port and marine projects, has been selected by LIGTT Project Company LLC to provide management services for the pre-construction of the Louisiana International Gulf Transfer Terminal.