Ports are lynchpins of the modern economy. They connect countries and companies with each other. In the Russian city of Murmansk, tons of Siberian coal leave the port every day. The material is handled and loaded with a SENNEBOGEN 875 material handler.

Konecranes recently held its third hackathon event, the "Maritime Hack – Automated cargo handling" in Helsinki, Finland.

Damen Shipyards Group has announced a new line of Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHD).

The Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA), the government authority charged with regulating, co-ordinating and supervising all aspects of Dubai's maritime sector, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lloyd's Register (LR), the global engineering, technical and business services organisation, to jointly undertake Research & Development and Commercialisation activities.

Konecranes has received approval from the Ministry of Commerce, the competition authority in China, for its pending acquisition of Terex's MHPS business ("MHPS Acquisition").

M/V Max Carrier made its first call to Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT) in Batumi, Georgia, marking the launch of the Mediterranean Shipping Company's (MSC) Gioia – Ukraine & Georgia feeder service.

Global trade enabler DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem spoke at the Asian Logistics & Maritime Conference in Hong Kong this week, highlighting the potential of One Belt One Road (OBOR) to be the world's largest project for global and regional trade collaboration over the next few decades.

Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) at the Port of Hamburg, Germany, is introducing a new production and shift pattern model to prepare for the arrival of the first 20,000 TEU vessels scheduled for spring 2017.

Adani Group is preparing to increase the cargo handling capacity of its newly developed deep draught Dhamra port in Odisha to 300 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).