Peel Ports celebrated the return of Maersk to the Port of Liverpool with a formal welcome reception for its feeder vessel, Antwerp. The event on 27 April was attended by Seago and Maersk representatives along with customers, and was followed by a port tour, including a trip to the top of the 90m (300ft) Grain Tower affording views over the whole site.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced last week that state-calibrated scales already in use at the Port of Savannah meet a new requirement of the international Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention. "We would like to commend the U.S. Coast Guard for bringing clarity to the SOLAS issue," said Griff Lynch, incoming executive director at Georgia Ports Authority. "In conjunction with the International Longshoremen's Association, the GPA currently weighs all loaded export containers, and will continue to do so at no cost to the customer."

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 Terminal Pacífico Sur Valparaíso (TPSV), part of the Ultramar Group, has successfully gone live with the Navis N4 terminal operating system (TOS).

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has been awarded the contract to upgrade seven ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Malaysia.

After fifteen years with the Port of Vancouver USA, CEO Todd Coleman will depart the port on May 19.

On 25 April, two out-of-gauge tanks manufactured by Chart Ferox were loaded by Wallmann & Co., the long-established Hamburg company specialising in handling heavy lift cargoes.

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is to deliver nine diesel-electric straddle carriers to EUROGATE, Europe's leading shipping line-independent container terminal operator, for use in their Hamburg Container Terminal.

On the European Continent, the Alps form a natural barrier for international transport. Containers can be transported to Southern Germany, the Czech Republic or Poland cheaper as well as more sustainably via North European ports than via Southern European ports.

Finland-based TTS Liftec has launched "the SafeRoll system" - a system based on a cassette trailer combined with the Safeneck concept. With this new product the neck of a cassette trailer is built like a Safeneck instead of a normal Gooseneck.

The first six cantilever rail-mounted gantry (CRMG) cranes arrived in the River Mersey on Sunday 1 May ready for installing and commissioning at the Liverpool2 deep-water container terminal.