The seaports in the North Sea Canal Area, which includes the ports of Amsterdam, IJmuiden, Beverwijk and Zaanstad, realised record transhipment of more than 97.4 million tonnes in 2014 according to the provisional figures.

The Port of Virginia in 2014 set its new annual benchmark for container volume having handled more than 2.3 million TEU, a 7.6 percent increase over last year's total.

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd has been awarded a contract to deliver Eight (8) units of STSs (Ship-to-Shore Gantry Cranes or Mitsui-Paceco Portainer) and Twenty (20) units of RTGs (Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes or Mitsui-Paceco Transtainer) to the New Priok Container Terminal in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Brandy D Christian has been named the new Chief Operating Officer of the Port of New Orleans by President and CEO Gary LaGrange, succeeding Patrick J Gallwey, who will retire 1 March after 34 years with the Port.

This afternoon at around 2pm the Pieter Schelte arrived in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. With a length of 382m and a phenomenal width of 124m, this is the biggest ship in the world.

South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) recently handled one of its heaviest energy project moves to date, a 1.5 million pound Westinghouse Electric Company steam generator for the South Carolina Electric & Gas Company nuclear power plant expansion near Columbia, South Carolina (SC).

Konecranes has won another order from Lomé Container Terminal SA in Lomé, Togo, this time for 10 RTGs. They will be identical to the 12 already delivered during 2014. Delivery is scheduled for end-2015 and 2016.

Dover Harbour Board have today advertised a Harbour Revision Order (HRO) seeking further modernising powers. It will forever embed the power for the Board to appoint two community directors, which in turn will strengthen the links between the Port and its community as envisaged in the Ministerial statement made in April 2014.

Global engineering group Cavotec has won orders for its innovative technologies for ports in Australia, Indonesia, Oman, Portugal and Turkey, and for two major shipping lines, with a combined value of more than EUR 11.5 million.

The world's largest container ship, the 19,100 TEU CSCL Globe, has made its maiden call at the Port of Felixstowe in the United Kingdom. The ship is operated by China Shipping Container Line on its AEX1 (Asia Europe Express) service with the port of Felixstowe its first port of call in Europe.