The first regular direct container/ roro service between Houston and West Africa was launched by Grimaldi Lines at the Port of Houston Authority's Barbours Cut Container Terminal in 12 Februay 2016.

DP World London Gateway and DP World Southampton is investing in container weighing services at its UK facilities to ensure that British businesses can continue trading when landmark legislation starts in July which will have a major impact on the supply chain.

The Industrial Solutions business area of thyssenkrupp, a world leader for planning, construction and service in the field of industrial plants and systems, has successfully supplied a complete transport and storage system for pelletized sulfur and petroleum coke for the "Yasref Refinery Project" in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

The most important port construction project that the two-city state of Bremen will implement this decade is making good progress: representatives of BLG Logistics and the port management company bremenports have now signed the operating contract for the 25-hectare Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven (OTB).

APM Terminals Mumbai became the first Indian container terminal to go paperless by providing shipping lines electronically with the required Export Form 13 for export containers entering the terminal by truck.

The Port of Vancouver USA's new rail entrance has won a 2016 Engineering Excellence Grand Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Oregon.

A business partnership which brings around a quarter of Britain's bananas into the country is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The Port of Dover, Seatrade Reefer Chartering N.V and terminal operator George Hammond PLC have spent a decade running successful twice weekly shipping services through Dover Cargo Terminal in a port more widely recognised as the busiest RoRo ferry terminal in Europe.

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has introduced a state-of-the-art port security system valued at over USD 53 million to safeguard customer cargo, port users, as well as Transnet's own port assets, staff and contractors.

Following Smit Salvage's spectacular salvage of the stricken ship, Modern Express, in the Gulf of Biscay, another Rotterdam company is now involved in this rescue operation.

TTS Group ASA has secured several marine equipment contracts for delivery of heavy-lift cranes for multipurpose vessels and for anchor and mooring winches for LNG tankers.