Liebherr Container Cranes has recently commissioned seven straddle carriers at ECT Delta Terminal in Rotterdam. The Liebherr machines are capable of stacking 1 over 2 containers high, have a safe working load of 40 tonnes and are supplied with a Stinis spreader.

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) warns that this week's industrial action by truck drivers serving Port Metro Vancouver is expected to severely impact Canada's largest and most diverse port.

The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Fiona Woolf, welcomed the foreign direct investment by Dubai's DP World into London Gateway, while visiting the recently opened deep-sea container port and Europe's largest logistics park.

The realignment of a transatlantic vessel-sharing alliance that currently accounts for more than one-third of the container business at The Port of Virginia will bring significant opportunities to develop news business for the port.  

The Port of Houston Authority generated record container movement and cargo tonnage in 2013.

On 24th February Olaf Lies, the Lower Saxony Minister of Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport, and Dr. Andreas Schmidt and Hans-Peter Zint, the Managing Directors of Cuxport, signed a memorandum of understanding for the construction of berth 4 at the Cuxport terminal in Cuxhaven.

The Port of San Diego has successfully switched on its new shore-power system at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal, which will improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by allowing cargo vessels to "plug in" rather than run their diesel engines while in port.

Today, the CMA CGM LAVENDER sails on the extended FEMEX 1 Northern Europe-Mediterranean full container service from HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai in Hamburg.

Two former US Navy Seals have been found dead on-board the container vessel Maersk Alabama while docked in Port Victoria, Seychelles. The Maersk Alabama was made famous during its 2009 hijacking off the coast of Somalia which ended when Navy Seals snipers shot and killed three pirates holding Captain Richard Phillips hostage aboard a lifeboat. The story inspired the 2013 film 'Captain Phillips' starring Tom Hanks.

Sacyr, the Spanish-led construction consortium expanding the major global waterway on behalf of the Panama Canal Authority has discussed options on Tuesday to keep the multi-billion dollar project afloat amid a dispute over costs, but any deal seemed unlikely ahead of a looming deadline.