The Georgia Ports Authority handled a total of 321,094 Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEUs) containers in October 2015, an additional 9,335 units, or 3 percent increase over the same period last year. For the fiscal year to date (July-October), the GPA has moved 1.27 million TEUs, up 74,754 units, or 6.2 percent.

Two Ellicott cutter suction dredges are currently being used in the expansion of a major port in Latin America.

The Port of New Orleans surpassed the half-million mark for twenty-foot-equivalent units handled in a 12-month period for the first time. Port President and CEO Gary LaGrange made the announcement during the 29th Annual State of the Port Address hosted by the International Freight Forwarders and Customs House Brokers Association of New Orleans.

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) is advising of a 24 hour general strike in Greece on 12 November which is expected to affect vessel movements at all Greek ports and terminals.

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has launched a mobile application that allows customers of the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) to monitor their containers in real-time while on the go.

The docks continued to be busy at the Port of Long Beach in October as cargo volume rose 6.3 percent compared to the same month last year, making for the best October in eight years.

The Port of Houston Authority today commissioned the first of four new Super Post-Panamax ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at its Barbours Cut Container Terminal.

Konecranes will deliver 10 more ARMGs to Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi. Deliveries will take place at the beginning of 2017. This follows upon the successful delivery of an automated container yard system including 42 ARMG cranes. The port started commercial operations on 1 September 2012.

The tariffs which visiting sea-going vessels pay in Rotterdam will increase by 0.5% next year. That is half of the past year's inflation rate. This is in accordance with the three-year agreement made last year between Deltalinqs, VRC, VNPI and the Port Authority on changes to the port tariffs.

On October 6th 2015, French President François Hollande attended the inauguration of France's École Nationale Supérieure Maritime's (ENSM) new maritime simulator facility in Le Havre, France.