Shippers will soon have new direct weekly options to Europe from the Port of New Orleans.

Port of AmsterdamInternational (PoAI), the Port's international division, has been contracted by the Netherlands Embassy in Benin to help revitalise the Port of Cotonou in the West African nation of Benin.

Pentalver, the UK's leading inland container service operator, has announced plans to develop a permanent container depot at DP World London Gateway, the UK's new deep-water port.

Cargo container trade climbed 1.3 percent in 2014, indicating continued economic growth for the U.S. and bringing the Port its third-busiest year ever behind the peak years of 2006 and 2007.

Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation, and provider of operational technologies that unlock greater performance and efficiency for the world's leading terminal operators, today announced that International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) has
signed a license agreement to implement the N4 terminal operating system (TOS) at its new, fully-automated container terminal in Melbourne, Australia—Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT).

Passengers stranded by the problems with Eurotunnel over the weekend were offered a safe alternative to reaching their destinations by the Port of Dover and its world renowned and reliable ferry services.

In 2014, the throughput in the port of Rotterdam went up 1% to 445 million tonnes. The different market sectors performed quite dissimilar. The container sector, was up by 5.8% (volume) and break-bulk, with 12.1% growth, did exceptionally well.

On 17 January the Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) terminal handled its first commercial ship in order to test the facilities. In total more than 150 containers were unloaded and completes the first commercial container operations of RWG.

 Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), the Group's mega-transhipment hub and La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), regional gateway in North Italy, Southern Europe are to be amongst the first terminals to operate calls on behalf of the 2M (namely East – West) network.