Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.5303, the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016, which moves the Charleston Harbor Deepening Project closer to securing the authorisation necessary to begin construction.

The three-month settling-in period suggested by the IMO to its Member States in which competent authorities were urged to adopt a 'practical and pragmatic' approach to the enforcement of the SOLAS revision stipulating all packed containers have a verified gross mass (VGM) before being stowed aboard a ship comes to an end on 1st October.

NedCargo International, parent company of inland terminal Alpherium in Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands, has placed an order for a new gantry crane with Austrian crane manufacturer Hans Künz GmbH.

Ferry services have linked Kiel and Russian ports for 25 years. To celebrate the anniversary the Port of Kiel, the shipping company DFDS and the firm of CIS Cargo, which specialises in transport between western and eastern Europe, hosted a ports evening in St. Petersburg.

Terex Port Solutions (TPS) continues to set milestones in South America. TPS has received two orders for large cranes from Chile.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, organises an open innovation hackathon event at the Interschalt Marine Center near Hamburg, Germany on 11-13 November 2016.

The first rail shuttle between China and the Netherlands is a fact. The service was launched by the Chinese rail operator CDiRS in June, and now the Chengdu-Tilburg-Rotterdam-Express is in full operation.

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has received an order for five forklift trucks and two T2 terminal tractors from HeavyMovement S.L in Barcelona, Spain. The delivery will take place during December 2016.

Experts of politics and industry engaged in a lively discussion on 21 September 2016 during the Fehmarnbelt Days in Hamburg's HafenCity University. The panel discussion, which was organised by Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM) as a partner in the EU Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme project TENTacle, was dominated by one question: What effects will the Fehmarnbelt fixed link have on intermodal freight flows between Northern Germany and Scandinavia?

The projects of the ports of Bremen, Cartagena, Dunkirk, Guadeloupe and Riga have been shortlisted for the eighth European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) Award on Societal Integration of Ports.