The 33rd daily rail freight service has been introduced at the Port of Felixstowe. Coming just seven weeks after the introduction of the 32nd daily train, the new service is operated by GB Railfreight and runs between the Port of Felixstowe and Rotherham.

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, and its US dealership Darr Equipment Co. of Houston have delivered a Kalmar Super Gloria reachstacker for barge handling to the JR Intermodal Green Transport Terminal in Texas. The order was booked in August 2015, with delivery on May 30, 2016.

Seaboard Marine has announced the launch of a new weekly service commencing Sunday, July 24, 2016, from New Orleans connecting U.S. exporters to Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica in addition to Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

The Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC) recently named Jim Newsome, SCPA president and CEO, the first Person of the Year award recipient in the Coalition's 28-year history.

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has completed the employee cooperation negotiations with the labour unions in Lidhult, Sweden. As a result of the negotiations, Kalmar has decided to transfer the production of forklift trucks from Sweden to Poland, invest in new, state of the art premises in Sweden and transform the operations in Southern Sweden into a Business, Innovation and Technology Centre.

In June 2016 following an impressive 28 years of dedicated service and handling in the region of 700,000 tons of grain a SAMSON Stormajor - a mobile stockpiling machine - was given a new lease of life by Forth Ports at the Port of Dundee.

Last year, the maritime and port consultancy company Siport21 has carried out the studies to analyse the access conditions of New Panamax Container Vessels at TCBUEN Container Terminal.

On Tuesday, the trade unions FNV and CNV Vakmensen, the Rotterdam container companies and the Port of Rotterdam Authority concluded consultations on employment in the container industry. The trade unions will present the outcome of the negotiations to their members with favourable advice.

The Georgia Ports Authority has received a US$44 million Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to increase rail capacity at the Port of Savannah.

In the near future, you will no longer require a physical Customs document to transfer containers from one Maasvlakte terminal to the other. The participating terminals (APMT, ECT and RWG) have made agreements to this end with the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.