GPA's Mid-American Arc will focus on the growth of intermodal rail, extending the Port of Savannah's reach to capture new markets across the Southeast and Midwestern U.S.

Port Said lies towards the Northern entrance of the Suez Canal - one of the most significant waterways in the world - and is in the middle of the biggest merchant shipping line between Europe and the East. Want to know more? Order your copy of our Top 100 Container Ports Supplement.

The first of ten ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at the APM Terminals Los Angeles Pier 400 facility was raised 33 feet (10 meters), making it the tallest port crane in North America and will be ready for vessel operations in the next few months.

Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling. Co. (ACCHCO), Egypt has ordered 21 new lift trucks from Konecranes; 7 empty container handlers during Q4 2015 and Q2 2016, and 14 laden container handlers in Q2 2016. The delivery of the 21 lift trucks will take place in late 2016.

The Port of Virginia® rewrote its record books once again, having handled 235,511 TEUs (twentyfoot equivalent units) in August, making it the single busiest month in the port's history.

Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation, and provider of operational technologies and services that unlock greater performance and efficiency for the world's leading terminal operators, today announced that Termont Montréal Inc., a longstanding terminal operator at the Port of Montréal, has gone live with Navis' N4 release 2.6 terminal operating system (TOS).

"The Georgia Ports Authority achieved record container volumes in 2015," reported Executive Director Curtis Foltz.

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Container throughput at the Port of Salalah, part of the APM Terminals Global Terminal Network, reached 1.584 million TEU in the first half of 2016, representing a 29% increase over volume handled during the same period the year prior.

Jan De Nul NV is part of a consortium that is responsible for the expansion of the port of Kingston.

The Georgia Ports Authority has named Ed McCarthy as its new COO. McCarthy comes to Georgia from his latest post in Norfolk, Va., as chief operating officer for CMA CGM America. Tuesday, Sept. 6 is his first day on the new job.