Damen has commenced construction of two identical Crane Barge 6324 vessels. Designed as a particularly cost effective trans-shipment platform, the barges are being built on a speculative basis in response to client demands to ensure short delivery times.

Starting last week, Vienna-based Roland Spedition forwarders is running its own container-block-train service linking three Hamburg Container Terminals: CTA, CTB and EKOM/EUROGATE with the TRICON Terminal in Nuremberg. Initially, there are three weekly departures on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from Hamburg.

APM Terminals has announced a new Truck Safety program featuring carefully researched and tested standard operating procedures for outside truck drivers delivering or picking up containers will be put into effect by the end of 2016 throughout the company's Global Terminal Network.

Visy Oy, a leading provider of gate automation and port technology, has been awarded a contract to supply Transiidikeskuse ("TK") in Estonia with TopView, the revolutionary imaging and OCR system for container handling equipment ("CHE") spreaders.

ArcelorMittal Construction, a global provider of building systems and materials, is using automatic hooks with overhead cranes to lift steel profiles at two sites in eastern France.

APM Terminals has graduated another 19 competitively selected managers from across the APM Terminals Global Terminal Network from the MAGNUM accelerated leadership training program at a formal ceremony in The Hague.

JAXPORT terminal operators say they are ready to help shippers handle all new international container weight verification requirements while maintaining regular, efficient cargo operations and service.

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 recently announced that Baltic Container Terminal (BCT), part of the Malta-based Mariner Group, has successfully gone live with Navis' N4 version 3.1 terminal operating system.

DP World Group Chairman and CEO, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem has met Argentinian President, Mauricio Macri in Beunos Aires to discuss cooperation in the ports and cruise terminals sector.

The visit on Friday of His Excellency Dr Ahmed Mohammed Salem Al-Futaisi, Minister of Transport and Communications, and His Excellency Sultan bin Salim Al Habsi, Chairman of the Board of Sohar Port and Freezone and Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Planning, marked the official completion of Terminal C at Oman International Container Terminal (OICT) in Sohar Port.