The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has ordered four more Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes from Konecranes for the Port of Savannah, Georgia. The order was received in December 2015 and delivery will be in the first half of 2018.

Dynamar has just issued the latest report in its Shipping Insight series, the late 2015 edition of "DYNAMAR Reefer Analysis: Market Structure, Conventional, Containers".

Local short-haul truck owners operating within the Port of New Orleans will soon be eligible to apply for financial incentives to replace older model year trucks with 2011 or newer models. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans a USD727,000 Clean Diesel grant for the Port's voluntary Clean Truck Replacement Incentive Program, or Clean TRIP.

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) is advising that a general strike in Greece has been extended by another 48 hours and is affecting the routes of domestic and local ferries and commercial vessels calling at Piraeus, Aspropyrgos, Eleusis, Pachi and Megara ports for cargo discharging.

Yesterday, the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) together with all maritime industry stakeholders, the Commission and EMSA co-signed a joint declaration to express their support for the recently adopted EU Operational Guidelines on Places of Refuge.

After strong growth in 2013 and 2014, French port equipment manufacturer Gaussin Manugistique has announced that sales for 2015 dropped by 66% compared to 2014.

The Board of Directors of Konecranes have responded to the offer from China-based Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Co. for Terex Corporation.

Terex Corporation that it has received an unsolicited, non-binding acquisition proposal from China-based Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Co. ("Zoomlion") to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Terex for USD30.00 in cash.

In 2015 the Port of Kiel handled 6.2 million tons of cargo – 4.2 % less than in the previous year.

Maersk Line, the world's largest container shipping line, has switched the UK call of its Samba service from Tilbury to DP World London Gateway Port. The first call on the service will be made by the Maersk Lanco on Monday, March 21.